Lead Engineer, Stream

• 8+ years of backend engineering experience
• 2+ years in an engineering leadership role (tech lead, team lead, or equivalent)
• Strong experience in at least 2 of the 3 following areas:
• Strong experience with AI adoption
• Systems-level backend engineering in Go or a similar language (Rust, C++, Java)
• Scalability fundamentals — distributed systems, database internals

Desirable

• We're hiring a Lead Engineer to join our Video team — the group responsible for Stream's real-time video SFU, WebRTC infrastructure, and native SDK ecosystem. Our SFU is built in Go, using Pion, and backed by a global edge network we own and operate
• This is a deeply technical leadership role: you'll spend 60–70% of your time writing and reviewing code, and the remainder on team leadership and customer-facing engineering. You'll start managing 2 engineers and grow into leading the full video team of 5–6
• Architect and evolve our Go/Pion-based SFU handling real-time video and audio traffic at global scale
• Build and improve our media pipeline supporting WHIP, WHEP, RTMP, SRT, HLS, and SVC codecs
• Work on bandwidth estimation, codec optimization (Opus, VP8/VP9/AV1), and low-latency delivery
• Expand our AI integrations for real-time audio and video processing
• Improve the stability, performance, and feature-set of our edge server network
• Collaborate directly with customers on advanced integration challenges
• Lead a small team: 1:1s, performance reviews, code reviews, and technical roadmap
• Core technologies: Go, WebRTC, RTMP, SRT, HLS, Protobuf, SVC codecs, Opus, CockroachDB/Postgres, RocksDB, Raft, Redis