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Travoom

Senior Backend Rust Engineer

Travoom

Senior Rust Engineer building scalable short-form video infrastructure for OleOle's football-focused platform. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to optimize media delivery and engagement.

Posted 5/31/2026full-timeRemote • Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
CloudDistributed SystemsFFmpegRust

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
  • Video ingestion pipelines
  • Video transcoding systems
  • Streaming infrastructure
  • CDN optimization
  • Short-form video feed systems
  • Recommendation or engagement systems
  • Real-time media delivery
  • Upload and processing pipelines
  • Distributed event systems
  • Large-scale consumer platforms
  • High-concurrency backend systems
  • Experience with FFmpeg or media processing pipelines
  • Experience with WebRTC or streaming technologies
  • Experience with scalable caching systems
  • Experience with distributed databases
  • Experience with pub/sub infrastructure
  • Experience with cloud-native infrastructure
  • Experience building globally distributed systems
  • Experience with recommendation systems or engagement ranking
  • Experience with AI-assisted moderation or translation systems
  • Experience working in startup environments
  • Strong product thinking
  • Ability to work independently in an early-stage startup environment
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills
  • Interest in ambitious long-term platform design

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Equity and token participation may be available for the right candidate

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Hard Skills & Tools
Rustscalable distributed systemshigh-scale APIsmedia infrastructurereal-time systemsconcurrencylow-latency infrastructurecontent delivery systemsbackend performance optimizationvideo ingestion pipelines
Soft Skills
strong product thinkingindependent workcommunication skillscollaboration skills