Senior Java Engineer
Wowza Media Systems
$175,000–$200,000from the description
Jul 7, 2026
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Jul 20, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior engineering role focused on building and optimizing live and on-demand video streaming pipelines within Wowza Streaming Engine. Day-to-day work spans designing transcoder and packaging workflows, supporting new codecs and hardware accelerators, resolving performance issues, and acting as a streaming domain expert for the broader team. Suited to engineers with substantial Java experience in high-throughput systems and solid grounding in video streaming protocols and standards.
Senior level · 8+ years · Remote · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
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 (8)
The 8+ years figure is the role-level Java development requirement and drives the overall years minimum; the 5+ years for transcoding/packaging is a domain-specific gate captured on that skill.
The streaming protocol requirement lists RTMP, RTSP, HLS, MPEG-DASH, CMAF, and WebRTC as alternatives — the JD requires deep experience with 'one or more', so they are grouped as alternatives under HLS as the representative entry.
Video quality metrics (PSNR, SSIM, VMAF) are listed under Requirements but framed as 'familiarity with' — a softer gate; they are retained as required per section placement but grouped as alternatives since the JD treats them as a set.
VP8/VP9 are listed together as a codec pair and emitted as one skill with VP9 as an alternative; AV1 and H.264/H.265 are each distinct codecs emitted separately.
C/C++, FFmpeg/gStreamer, Wowza Streaming Engine, and CI/CD all appear under the explicit 'Nice to Have' heading and are marked preferred accordingly.
No degree requirement is stated anywhere in the posting.
The company is Colorado-based but the caller has confirmed this is a fully-remote, nationally-pooled role; no metro is set.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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