Senior Software Engineer - Backend (Media Capture) at Read AI, Inc.
Seattle, WA
$180,000–$210,000from the description
Jul 13, 2026
Seattle, WA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This role sits on the team responsible for capturing and processing the audio and video data that underpins all of Read AI's features. Day-to-day work spans building low-latency live media pipelines, maintaining the bots that join third-party meeting platforms, and tuning media processing tools for efficiency. It suits engineers with broad technical range who are comfortable working autonomously across backend, infrastructure, and data domains.
Senior level · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 111,000 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 32,700–166,500
Applicant volume Heavy — This req sits in a large pool with little in its requirements to thin it, and auto-apply tools fire at everything in the occupation. Applying early and leading with the rare skills below is what gets read.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
The posting's required section is written in broad, non-technology-specific language ('proven experience building software solutions that perform at scale', 'technical breadth across more than one domain'). No specific named technologies are hard-gated in the requirements block, so no tools are marked required.
FFmpeg/GStreamer, WebRTC/MoQ, cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure), and HTML/CSS all appear explicitly under the 'Nice to Have' section and are marked preferred accordingly.
The role centers on live media pipelines, meeting bots, and audio/video processing — a software engineering role classified as Software Developers (15-1252). No degree requirement is stated.
Visa sponsorship is explicitly excluded; noted for sourcing purposes but not representable in a structured field.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): scalable systems design.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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