Senior Video Engineer (C++/Rust)

Senior Video Engineer (C++/Rust)

£110,000 - £180,000 + Equity & Benefits Fully remote

About the Company

Two founders who previously built and sold a well-known product in the audio/video space are back, building a new native desktop app, and most of the core engineering team from round one came with them.

About the Role

If you've worked deep in real-time A/V pipelines and want to do it again with people who've shipped this kind of thing before, this is worth reading. The problem They're building a native desktop app for Mac and Windows. The core stack is Rust, with WebRTC and some GStreamer. In a browser, WebRTC handles huge amounts of the low-level work for you. Building it natively means they write or modify much of that themselves. GStreamer covers some of it, but its real-time plugins aren't as mature as what the browsers have built, so they end up tweaking, rewriting, or replacing pieces of the pipeline.

Responsibilities

• You will make sure network issues are handled in the most robust way possible.
• The audio/video tech is as performant as possible, from a first principles approach. It must be the best in class.
• You proactively prevent audio/video sync issues in the app and help level up others in the team in this area.
• The entire audio/video part of the code feels extremely solid and well tested.

Qualifications

Deep, low-level audio/video and RTP experience: encoding/decoding, pipeline internals, low-latency transport. Not just WebRTC consumed via browser APIs; that's not enough on its own. Broader RTP experience (RTMP and related protocols) is relevant.

Required Skills

• Systems-level programming in Rust, C, or C++. You don't need to be a Rust expert, though it's a bonus.
• Real desktop or low-level mobile experience. Windows, Mac, iOS, Android: the platform matters less than the depth. They need someone who's worked below the framework layer.
• Comfortable working across both Mac and Windows. You don't need to be a Windows specialist, but their engineers use both day to day and you'd test on both regularly.
• Ready to hit the ground running. This isn't a role where a slow ramp is possible.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with WebRTC at the implementation level (browser internals like Chrome or Firefox, rather than just consuming the API).
• GStreamer, specifically the RTP/WebRTC parts.
• RTMP.
• Rust specifically.
• Windows desktop development.
• Mac desktop development.

Pay range and compensation package

£110,000 - £180,000 + Equity & Benefits

Equal Opportunity Statement

Extras 🙌 Small founding team. No levels, no hierarchy; everyone is just called an engineer. The people you'd be working with have years of shared context shipping serious audio/video products together. One small daily sync at 9am Pacific; otherwise async. If this sounds like your kind of problem, drop me a message or apply below

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