About the role
Stream powers chat & video for many large apps like Strava, Nextdoor, Patreon, IBM, Adobe and Midjourney. For video we’ve built our own Go/Pion based SFU and a network of edge servers around the world.
We are looking for a WebRTC SFU Engineer to join our team and work on the SFU. The goal is to raise the bar on the developer experience and make it much easier to add real time audio/video to your app. We are also expanding into AI integrations for realtime audio & video. Remote (EU) or Amsterdam (relocation and Visa sponsorship available).
Stream has a 10 week internal Go onboarding program, prior experience with Golang is not required.
Why Stream:
Video SFU, interesting Golang challenge
High scale/ difficult engineering
Default alive. Startup growth opportunity with healthy revenue
Strong engineering culture. Engineering is what makes us succeed
All managers are hands on and capable engineers
Edge network of servers around the world
Great opportunity to learn and grow
Raised $58M from leading VCs (Felicis Ventures, Notable Capital, 01.Advisors, Techstars, Arthur Ventures), including backers like Dick Costolo (01 Advisors, ex-CEO of Twitter), Olivier Pomel (CEO of Datadog), Tom Preston-Werner (Co-Founder of GitHub), Nicolas Dessaigne (Co-Founder of Algolia)
In addition to Go we use CockroachDB/Postgres, RocksDB, Raft and Redis. Solid engineering experience and motivation to learn is more relevant than prior experience with the language. Roles open from entry level to director/principal engineers.
To get a feel for what we do you can have a look at our API tour: https://getstream.io/chat/get_started/
This role requires at least 2 years of backend/low level WebRTC experience. Bonus points for:
Experience with Go
Scalability/database/Redis experience
Experience with SDK development/ React/Swift/Compose etc.
Experience with AWS or other cloud provider
Python (our AI runs on Python) and Rust experience
Message queues experience
Full text search experience
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field
Stream employees enjoy some of the best job benefits in the industry:
A team of exceptional (and friendly) engineers
The chance to work on OSS projects
28 days paid time off plus paid Dutch holidays
Company equity
A pension scheme
A Learning and Development budget
Commute expenses to Amsterdam covered or the option to use a company bike within the city
Fitness stipend
Monthly in-office chair massages by a professional
MacBook Pro
Healthy team lunches and plenty of snacks
A generous relocation package
An office in the heart of Amsterdam
About the company
Stream powers chat & video for many large apps like Strava, Nextdoor, Patreon, IBM, Adobe and Midjourney.