Staff Backend Engineer (Video and Streaming)

Location: Full-time, on-site at Sunnyvale HQ, Sunnyvale, California, United States

Base salary: $210,000–$250,000 annually, depending on experience.

Company

hirify.global is a security technology company building autonomous security machines, AI-driven software, and managed security services.

What you will do

• Own the Signals video and streaming backend end to end.
• Lead vendor knowledge transfer covering video pipeline architecture and operations.
• Partner with the Video UI frontend team to deliver an end-to-end streaming experience.
• Partner with the ML/CV team on model serving for ICM 2.0.
• Establish SLOs and an on-call rotation for the video pipeline.
• Optimize the cost and operational performance of high-throughput media systems.

Requirements

• 10+ years of backend engineering experience, including staff-level architectural ownership.
• Deep experience with video streaming systems such as WebRTC, HLS, RTMP, or similar technologies.
• Experience building and operating high-throughput real-time systems at scale.
• Strong distributed systems fundamentals.
• Production ownership of media pipelines.
• Availability for full-time, on-site work at the Sunnyvale headquarters is required.

Nice to have

• Experience with security or surveillance video pipelines.
• Experience designing edge-to-cloud video ingest and processing architectures.
• Experience bringing a media backend in-house from a third-party vendor.

Culture & Benefits

• Stock options.
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits.
• 401(k).
• Paid time off.
• Ownership of a high-traffic backend whose technical direction will shape the Signals platform.