GameChanger

6 days ago

Staff Software Engineer, Video Enablement

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Job Summary

Lead the new Video Engineering team’s full-stack expansion of live streaming and post-game video capabilities. Own the video pipeline end to end—live ingestion, transcoding, storage, playback, and developer-facing SDKs—while improving monitoring, scalability, and reliability for millions of streams and hundreds of millions of highlight clips. Partner with mobile, web, ML/computer vision, and platform teams to drive roadmap execution, mentor engineers, and help shape the technical direction and culture.

Location: New York

Workplace: Remote

Employment Type: Full time

Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

•Design, architect, code, and support video features across the video pipeline stack (live ingestion, transcoding, integration, storage, playback/consumption) at scale.
•Influence and iterate on the video team’s technology roadmap with the Engineering Manager and Product Manager as the capabilities scale.
•Collaborate with mobile, web, ML/computer vision, and platform teams on projects across the video processing system to improve user experiences.
•Review and provide feedback on designs and code PRs, pair on architectures, and guide implementations as needed.
•Build internal SDKs/frameworks/tooling and define real-time monitoring and measurement systems; participate in an occasional on-call rotation and help lead/mentor engineers.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 200,000 - 230,000 annually

Equity and Bonus:Equity

Perks:Remote WorkHealth InsuranceDentalVisionPaid LeaveLearning Budget401kParental Leave

Key Requirements

•Strong background in video and audio streaming, preferably with a focus on live-streaming user-generated content.
•Extensive experience architecting and building scalable, high-performance video pipelines in cloud environments (AWS used).
•Strong understanding of audio/video packaging principles, codecs, and related tools (e.g., MPEG Video, HLS, DASH, H.264/H.265, RTMP/SRT, FFmpeg, DRM).
•Hands-on experience building live and VOD streaming workflows across mobile broadcast, ingest, transcoding, storage, playback, and related systems at scale.
•Proficiency reading/coding in video-space languages (e.g., C#/GoLang/C++/Rust/Python) and experience with languages/frameworks such as Node/TypeScript/React and/or mobile (Kotlin/Swift).

Experience:Video streamingAudio streamingLive streamingCloudAWSVideo codecsMobile broadcastComputer vision

Skills:Technical leadershipMentoringCommunicationCollaborationLeadership

Tech Stack:AWSCloudContainersC#GolangC++RustPythonNodeTypeScriptReactKotlinSwiftMPEG VideoMPEG-2 TSHLSDASHH.264H.265VP9

Company Brief

GameChanger

Provides a youth-sports platform offering live game streaming, scorekeeping, team management, statistics and highlights to coaches, families and fans. Owned and operated by DICK’S Sporting Goods, the product supports millions of games and hundreds of thousands of teams annually.

Industry: SaaS

Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)

Growth: Established Company

Funding: Series B

Headquarters: New York, United States

Founded: 2009

Glassdoor: 3.4

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GameChanger

6 days ago

Staff Software Engineer, Video Enablement

✓ Verified Job

Canonical indexed version, validated from employer's careers page.

Source: Company careers pageValidated by: Fursa AI

Last checked: 5 hours agoStatus: Live

Job Summary

Location: New York

Workplace: Remote

Employment Type: Full time

Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

•Design, architect, code, and support video features across the video pipeline stack (live ingestion, transcoding, integration, storage, playback/consumption) at scale.
•Influence and iterate on the video team’s technology roadmap with the Engineering Manager and Product Manager as the capabilities scale.
•Collaborate with mobile, web, ML/computer vision, and platform teams on projects across the video processing system to improve user experiences.
•Review and provide feedback on designs and code PRs, pair on architectures, and guide implementations as needed.
•Build internal SDKs/frameworks/tooling and define real-time monitoring and measurement systems; participate in an occasional on-call rotation and help lead/mentor engineers.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 200,000 - 230,000 annually

Equity and Bonus:Equity

Perks:Remote WorkHealth InsuranceDentalVisionPaid LeaveLearning Budget401kParental Leave

Key Requirements

•Strong background in video and audio streaming, preferably with a focus on live-streaming user-generated content.
•Extensive experience architecting and building scalable, high-performance video pipelines in cloud environments (AWS used).
•Strong understanding of audio/video packaging principles, codecs, and related tools (e.g., MPEG Video, HLS, DASH, H.264/H.265, RTMP/SRT, FFmpeg, DRM).
•Hands-on experience building live and VOD streaming workflows across mobile broadcast, ingest, transcoding, storage, playback, and related systems at scale.
•Proficiency reading/coding in video-space languages (e.g., C#/GoLang/C++/Rust/Python) and experience with languages/frameworks such as Node/TypeScript/React and/or mobile (Kotlin/Swift).

Experience:Video streamingAudio streamingLive streamingCloudAWSVideo codecsMobile broadcastComputer vision

Skills:Technical leadershipMentoringCommunicationCollaborationLeadership

Tech Stack:AWSCloudContainersC#GolangC++RustPythonNodeTypeScriptReactKotlinSwiftMPEG VideoMPEG-2 TSHLSDASHH.264H.265VP9

Company Brief

GameChanger

Industry: SaaS

Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)

Growth: Established Company

Funding: Series B

Headquarters: New York, United States

Founded: 2009

Glassdoor: 3.4

Website LinkedIn Glassdoor