Staff Software Engineer, Video Enablement
GameChanger · New York, NY
$200,000–$230,000
Jul 14, 2026
New York, NY
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A founding engineer role on a newly formed team dedicated entirely to video, responsible for architecting and building end-to-end video pipelines covering live ingest, transcoding, storage, and playback at significant scale. The position spans the full stack — mobile broadcast frameworks, back-end infrastructure, and internal SDKs — while also involving technical mentorship, roadmap input, and on-call support. Best suited to a senior engineer with deep live-streaming and video pipeline experience across cloud environments and multiple languages.
Staff level · Remote · Full-time
Pay in the description: $169,000–$185,000
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How this req sits in the market our data
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.
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Why we read it this way (10)
The caller has declared this a fully-remote role; no metro has been inferred.
AWS is listed as the company's current cloud but the JD explicitly states 'any cloud/container experience is fine' — it is still a hard gate on cloud/video-pipeline experience, with Azure and GCP as named alternatives.
The video codec and protocol requirements (HLS/DASH, H.264/H.265/VP9/AV1, RTMP/SRT, MPEG-2 TS, FFmpeg, DRM) are all listed together in the required qualifications block as a group of interrelated technologies; each is emitted as a separate skill given they are distinct tools, with close interchangeable peers captured in alternatives where applicable.
Language proficiency (Go/C#/C++/Rust/Python for video-space work; Node/TypeScript, React, Swift/Kotlin for higher-level/front-end work) is listed in the required qualifications block. The JD says 'proficiency reading (preferably coding)' and lists several as alternatives, so they are grouped by functional role with alternatives.
Front-end experience in web, iOS (Swift), and/or Android (Kotlin) is explicitly stated as 'required' in the qualifications block; willingness to learn unfamiliar front-end areas is called 'a huge plus' — that nuance is captured by marking Swift/Kotlin as required (the gate) while noting the 'or' framing.
Computer vision and video advertising systems familiarity are explicitly called 'a plus' — listed as preferred.
No minimum total years of experience is stated at the role level; the seniority assessment (Staff) is based on the cross-team technical leadership scope, founding-team influence over the entire video stack, and the explicit 'Staff Software Engineer/Architect' title.
Generic concepts such as 'scalable video pipelines', 'mobile broadcast', 'mentoring', and 'documentation' were omitted from skills as they name no specific technology or tool.
Ignored 2 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): video pipeline architecture, SDK/API design.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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