Staff Backend Engineer, Video and Streaming
Knightscope, Inc.1 day ago
Sunnyvale, CA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$210k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the Signals video and streaming backend end to end.
- Lead vendor knowledge transfer covering video pipeline architecture and operations.
- Partner with the Video UI frontend team on the end-to-end streaming experience.
- Partner with the ML/CV team on model serving for ICM 2.0.
- Establish SLOs, on-call rotation, and cost optimization for the video pipeline.
- Take the media backend from third-party vendor ownership into internal ownership.
Requirements
- 10+ years of backend engineering experience, including staff-level architectural ownership.
- Deep experience with video streaming systems such as WebRTC, HLS, RTMP, or similar technologies.
- Experience building and operating high-throughput real-time systems at scale.
- Strong distributed systems fundamentals.
- Production ownership of media pipelines.
- Security or surveillance video pipeline experience is preferred.
- Experience with edge-to-cloud video ingest and processing architectures is preferred.
- Prior experience insourcing a media backend from a third party is preferred.
Benefits
- Base salary of $210,000 to $250,000, depending on experience.
- Stock options.
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits.
- 401(k).
- Paid time off.
- Full-time, onsite work at the Sunnyvale, California headquarters.
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About Knightscope, Inc.
Knightscope builds autonomous security robots and related software, delivered as a managed service to enterprises, campuses, and public agencies. Its portfolio combines mobile robots, fixed kiosks/emergency communication systems, and AI-driven monitoring/orchestration sold via subscriptions and service contracts. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Knightscope is a public company trading on Nasdaq under the ticker KSCP.