Senior Backend Engineer – TikTok-Style Video Infrastructure, Rust

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Senior Rust Engineer for OleOle building scalable video infrastructure. Focused on TikTok-style video feeds, transcoding systems, and optimized delivery.

Posted 5/18/2026full-timeRemote • Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Distributed SystemsRust

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design and build scalable short-form video infrastructure
Architect video ingestion and transcoding pipelines
Optimize playback performance across mobile and web
Design scalable media delivery systems
Build APIs supporting high-volume video engagement
Help architect recommendation and engagement systems
Work on low-latency media infrastructure
Collaborate with frontend, mobile, AI, and platform engineers
Help optimize infrastructure for global fan engagement at scale

Requirements

What you’ll need

Strong Rust backend engineering experience
Experience designing scalable distributed systems
Experience building high-scale APIs
Experience with media or video infrastructure
Experience working with real-time systems
Strong understanding of concurrency and low-latency infrastructure
Experience building scalable content delivery systems
Experience optimizing backend performance for high-volume traffic
Strong understanding of scalable media pipelines

Benefits

Comp & perks

Equity and token participation may be available for the right candidate.

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Hard Skills & Tools

Rustbackend engineeringscalable distributed systemshigh-scale APIsmedia infrastructurereal-time systemsconcurrencylow-latency infrastructurecontent delivery systemsbackend performance optimization

Soft Skills

collaboration