Stream, Amsterdam office +1
We're looking for a Staff Backend Engineer to join Stream on our mission of elevating the quality of apps for billions of users globally. You'll own the technical direction of Stream Video's media plane and the infrastructure it runs on.
This is a full-time role, hybrid with 3 days a week in our Amsterdam office, or remote from anywhere in the EU.
Stream Video runs on an SFU we built in Go on top of Pion, plus ingest and recording fleets, all on a global edge network we own across more than one cloud. Nobody at Stream has owned this media plane end to end before. Our central infrastructure team is tuned for request-based services, and video breaks in different ways: live sessions can't be dropped, bandwidth is the biggest cost, and placement is the main lever. That's why this is a Staff role.
You'll set the direction for the video backend and its infrastructure with your own roadmap, reporting to our Director of Engineering with a direct line to our CTO. The Video SDK teams own the client side, and you'll work closely with them and with infrastructure. Part of the fleet is mid-move to Kubernetes.
You've owned systems where a dropped session or a bad rollout is visible to users within seconds, and you think about cost and reliability as much as features. You'd rather write the hard design doc than wait for one. A founder background is an asset here. The team is small, so you'll still write and review plenty of code. If you're looking for a large organisation with a platform team to hand problems to, or a management track, this role won't suit you.
WHY JOIN STREAM?
We're a Series B company with offices in Boulder, Amsterdam, Skopje and Toronto, and a team of 140+ people from 37 nationalities. We're backed by Felicis Ventures, GGV Capital, 01 Advisors, Techstars, and Arthur Ventures, with angels including Dick Costolo (ex-CEO of Twitter), Olivier Pomel (CEO of Datadog), Tom Preston-Werner (co-founder of GitHub), and Nicolas Dessaigne (co-founder of Algolia).
We'll be straight with you: a startup is more demanding than a large company. There's no fixed playbook, you'll own things end to end, and you'll sometimes pick up work outside your title. That's also what makes it a fast place to grow. If you want real ownership and high scale more than structure and a set career ladder, you'll feel at home here.
This list applies to Netherlands-based employees and is adjusted to your location of residence. If you work remotely from another EU country, you'll be employed through our Employer of Record partner and get company equity plus local benefits depending on your country of employment.
Stream powers real-time Chat https://getstream.io/chat/, Video https://getstream.io/video/, Activity Feeds https://getstream.io/activity-feeds/, and AI Moderation https://getstream.io/moderation/ for more than 1 billion end users across 4,000+ apps, from Strava and Bumble to eBay and Patreon. Our platform processes billions of API requests per month and supports applications with millions of concurrent users, while delivering highly reliable, low-latency services and a great developer experience.
Stream is a casual, transparent team that aims high and supports each other. In engineering, we care about ownership and quality, and our goal is to ship stable software. Management stays hands-on, with less middle management and more time spent doing the work. If that sounds like the environment you want next, apply now.
Hybrid office policy: applicants based (or relocating to) one of our office locations are expected to work according to the applicable local office attendance policy.
This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
Note for external recruiters: We currently have this role covered and do not accept unsolicited agency resumes. We are not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
Stream is an equal opportunity employer. We hire on skills and experience, and we don't discriminate based on age, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, ethnicity, nationality, religion or belief, political opinion, disability or chronic illness, marital status, working hours, type of contract, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you need an adjustment at any point in our hiring process, let us know.
Equal opportunity employer statement: Stream provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
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