WebRTC SFU Engineer

Stream Digital Services

full-time

Posted on: 9/24/2025

Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • Colorado

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💰 $146,500 - $205,300 per year

JuniorMid-Level

AWSCloudGoPythonReactRedisRustSwift

About the role

Work on the core API of Stream's video product, including the SFU and media pipeline used for WHIP/WHEP/RTMP and other protocols
Use and develop with Golang, WebRTC, RTMP, SRT, HLS, protobuf, SVC codecs, Opus, and bandwidth negotiation
Improve performance and build new features for the SFU server
Work on edge infrastructure to improve stability and feature-set
Build new features to support existing and upcoming audio/video technologies (e.g., AI, WHIP, SRT, WHEP)
Raise the developer experience to make it easier to add real-time audio/video to applications
Participate in expanding AI integrations for real-time audio & video

At least 2 years of backend/low level WebRTC experience
Experience with Go (bonus)
Scalability/database/Redis experience (bonus)
Experience with SDK development (React/Swift/Compose) (bonus)
Experience with AWS or other cloud provider (bonus)
Python and Rust experience (bonus)
Message queues experience (bonus)
Full text search experience (bonus)
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field (bonus)
Solid engineering experience and motivation to learn
US-based preference (Boulder or nearby) or Toronto/similar timezones
Applicants based in the Netherlands or relocating there expected to work in the Amsterdam office 3 times per week (exceptions may apply)