THE ROLE:
You will play a key role in designing, building, and operating the live streaming platform at FloSports, delivering tens of thousands of live events every year to fans around the world. This is a role for a proven video specialist: we expect demonstrated, hands-on experience operating live broadcast video at scale in production, spanning contribution, transcoding, packaging, and delivery across many concurrent events. Youll own the backend services and APIs behind that pipeline end-to-end using Node.js/NestJS and/or Go, and youll be accountable for keeping the full live signal chain reliable under real-world broadcast conditions, including redundancy and graceful failover. Experience with AWS Elemental Media Services is a strong plus.
As a senior member of the team, you will also participate in an on-call rotation to help ensure the reliability of our live streaming platform.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Operate, automate, and continuously improve the live broadcast video pipeline (contribution, transcoding, packaging, and delivery) for tens of thousands of events per year, with a focus on performance, scalability, and broadcast-grade reliability.
- Monitor and safeguard stream health and viewer quality of experience (QoE) at scale, building the tooling and alerting needed to catch issues before they reach audiences.
- Design and implement data models and queries for SQL databases.
- Build and maintain backend microservices using Node.js/NestJS and/or Go.
- Write and execute unit and integration tests using tools like Jest, and Vitest to ensure high code quality.
- Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code, following best practices.
- Participate in code reviews, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
- Collaborate closely with product managers, and other stakeholders to define and deliver new features.
- Diagnose and resolve live broadcast and streaming pipeline issues in real time, including during live events, and drive lasting improvements to redundancy and failover.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:
- Demonstrated hands-on experience operating live broadcast video at scale in production, including multi-event, multi-channel contribution, transcoding, packaging, and delivery.
- Deep understanding of the live broadcast signal chain, including redundancy, failover, and graceful degradation under real-world live conditions.
- Hands-on experience with live streaming transport protocols (SRT, RTMP, Zixi, WebRTC) and how they integrate with media pipelines.
- Proficiency in TypeScript, Node.js and/or Go, including a deep understanding of language features and design patterns.
- Experience working with SQL databases.
- Experience building and maintaining RESTful APIs.
- Familiarity with NestJS or similar backend frameworks.
- Hands-on experience writing and executing unit tests and integration tests using Jest, and Vitest.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and integrating tests into deployment workflows.
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS (EC2, Lambda, S3, etc.).
- Strong debugging, problem-solving, and analytical skills.
BONUS POINTS:
- Experience with tools like AWS Elemental and/or video encoding tools such as OBS, and vMix.
- Experience with NoSQL solutions like Firebase/Firestore.
- Experience with messaging solutions such as SNS/SQS, MQTT, Kafka, and Pubsub.
- Familiarity with event-driven architectures.
- Hands-on experience with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Knowledge of security best practices for API development and data handling.
- Experience working in Agile development environments.
- Previous experience with end-to-end (E2E) testing frameworks.
OUR BENEFITS:
- Recognized three years in a row as a Top Workplace by the Austin-American Statesman
- Annual equity awards for all top performers
- Competitive and comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans
- Peace of mind through company-paid short-term disability, long-term disability and life insurance
- Generous 401(K) company match vested immediately
- Progressive parental leave policies
- Flexible paid time off
- Hack-a-thons and a full calendar of team-building and social events
- Company donation to youth teams and leagues that our employees coach
- Stocked snack bar, catered lunch and breakfast tacos every week
