🛠 Tech Stack

💼 About This Role

You'll lead the team behind Stream's real-time video SFU and WebRTC infrastructure, architecting and evolving a Go-based system that handles millions of concurrent connections for apps like Strava and Bumble. You'll spend 60-70% of your time writing code and the remainder on team leadership and customer collaboration, managing a small team that will grow to 5-6 engineers.

🎯 What You'll Do

• Architect and evolve the Go/Pion-based SFU handling real-time video/audio traffic at global scale
• Build and improve media pipeline supporting WHIP, WHEP, RTMP, SRT, HLS, and SVC codecs
• Work on bandwidth estimation, codec optimization (Opus, VP8/VP9/AV1), and low-latency delivery
• Lead a small team: 1:1s, performance reviews, code reviews, and technical roadmap

📋 Requirements

• 8+ years of backend engineering experience
• 2+ years in an engineering leadership role (tech lead, team lead, or equivalent)
• Strong experience in systems-level backend engineering in Go or similar (Rust, C++, Java)
• Strong experience in scalability fundamentals — distributed systems, database internals

✨ Nice to Have

• WebRTC protocol knowledge, SFU/MCU concepts, RTP/RTCP, DTLS
• Experience with API/PG/Redis
• Experience with AWS or comparable cloud infrastructure at scale

🎁 Benefits & Perks

• 🏖️ 28 days paid time off plus paid Dutch holidays
• 📚 Learning and Development budget
• 🏢 Company equity and pension scheme
• 🚲 Commute expenses to Amsterdam covered or company bike option
• 💪 Fitness stipend