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Sr. to Lead Video Software Engineer - AI Video Security Startup

Sunnyvale, CA (you can work remotely up to 1x/week)

The company's product involves AI, Video, Cloud Security, and IoT.

The company has about 15 employees and 6 engineers. It is self-funded, ARR is several million and has been doubling year over year.

The company will pay a salary up to $275k, plus equity which could be lucrative.

Job Responsibilities:

- Working with a tech stack that includes tech stack that includes Rust, Go (APIs), React front end, and AWS.

- Ideally you will be full stack, spending about 60-70% of your time on backend engineering. Depending on your preference, you could be anywhere from 100% backend to 70% front end.

- Building and scaling full stack applications, cloud infrastructure, and edge computing hardware, with a focus on video technology.

- Designing, developing, and maintaining cutting-edge solutions that rely on advanced GPU programming, video processing, and cloud infrastructure.

- Working with GPU programming to optimize video rendering, encoding, and processing performance.

- Debugging, troubleshooting, and resolving complex technical issues related to video systems and infrastructure.

- Collaborating closely with cross-functional teams to build scalable and high-performance solutions.

- Developing and maintaining device code in Rust, optimizing for speed and efficiency.

- Ensuring high-quality, performant, and secure video delivery through cloud infrastructure.

- Continuously improving the product by implementing best practices in development, testing, and deployment.

- Contributing to architectural decisions and ensuring solutions are scalable and maintainable.

- Keeping up to date on the latest trends and technologies in video and cloud computing.

Qualifications:

- Passionate about video systems.

- Experience with network video recording technologies.

- Strong experience with full-stack application development.

- Strong understanding of GPU programming and video technology (encoding, decoding, rendering, streaming).

- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and services (AWS, GCP, etc.) for video delivery and storage.

- Experience debugging complex software and systems.

- Understanding of video compression, streaming protocols (RTSP, HLS, etc.), and network video technologies.

- Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.

- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

- Self-motivated, and able to work both independently and as part of a fast-paced team.

Nice to have:

- Proficiency in Rust, with experience developing network video recorder code.

- Experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).

- Familiarity with video streaming platforms and protocols.

- Experience in a fast-paced startup environment.

- Experience with performance optimization in distributed systems.

About Skyrocket Ventures

Skyrocket Ventures is a recruiting firm for hundreds of high growth technology companies that range from industry leaders to top-tier startups. This opportunity is with one of our client companies for a full-time permanent hire. Please only apply if you are authorized to work in the U.S.

Please note that even if this job is not a perfect match, we encourage you to apply as long as it is in the ballpark. Companies are often flexible in hiring candidates who do not perfectly fit their written job description, as long as the most important qualifications are there and the candidate is good in general.

Most of the jobs we are recruiting for are not posted online, so if you would like to know of all the opportunities we have that match your interests and qualifications, then please get in touch with us.

After you apply to this job posting, we’ll consider you for this job as well as any other potential matches with our client companies. If we have any potential matches, we’ll share your resume with those companies and contact you about any interview opportunities we can get you.

Thank you, and we wish you a great job search!

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  Mid-Senior level

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  Software Development and Technology, Information and Media

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