Experienced Rust video Engineer – TikTok-Style Video Infrastructure
Travoom · Austin, TX
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Jul 14, 2026
Austin, TX
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior Rust engineering role focused on building the short-form video layer of a football-focused super app. Day-to-day work centers on video ingestion, transcoding pipelines, media delivery, playback optimization, and recommendation systems, alongside scalable APIs and CDN infrastructure. Best suited to backend engineers with distributed systems experience and a background in high-scale video or streaming platforms. Note: compensation is deferred until funding closes.
Senior level · Remote
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 51,500 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 10,500–77,000
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
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What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762).
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Compensation is explicitly deferred until funding closes; equity and token participation are mentioned as possible but not guaranteed. There is no salary figure to report.
The posting lists no minimum years of overall experience — seniority is inferred from the 'Senior' title and the scope of responsibilities (architecting pipelines, distributed media infrastructure, high-scale systems).
The required skills section uses descriptive phrases rather than named tools (e.g. 'experience with media or video infrastructure', 'real-time systems'). These have been mapped to the closest canonical technology/domain names; no specific frameworks or cloud providers are named as hard gates.
All skills under 'Preferred Experience' and 'Additional Preferred Skills' are marked preferred, as the posting explicitly labels those sections as preferred/highly preferred.
The posting states the company is based in Austin, TX, but the caller has declared this a fully-remote, national role — no metro has been set.
Employment type is not stated; the role appears full-time in spirit but is never explicitly described as such, so it is left as Unspecified.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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