Staff Software Engineer (Media Foundations)
United States Posted September 30, 2026
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Salary Range
$217,000 - $303,000
Job Description
and business impact.
- Lead the technical architecture of media infrastructure, defining the strategy for ingesting, processing, storing, and delivering video and audio content.
- Design and evolve global media processing and delivery infrastructure, optimizing for scalability, performance, and fault tolerance.
- Establish engineering best practices, mentor and guide multiple engineering teams, and drive alignment across the company.
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a proven track record as a Technical Lead or Staff Engineer
- Distributed Systems Expertise: Proven track record of designing and operating large-scale distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and microservices
- Communication: Exceptional written and verbal communication skills. Ability to influence technical direction and navigate tradeoffs between performance, reliability, and business impact without directly managing the engineers involved
- Demonstrated ability to lead large, cross-functional engineering initiatives that balance technical excellence
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