Backend Engineer (Real-time Systems)

Role Overview

Build the streaming backbone that ingests thousands of video and sensor streams, runs analytics in real time, and routes alerts to operators in under five minutes — without dropping a frame.

Responsibilities

• Design high-throughput, low-latency pipelines for video and sensor ingestion.
• Build the event, alerting and integration layer that fans out to operator systems.
• Make the platform scale from a single site to thousands of cameras without re-architecting.
• Own reliability, observability and back-pressure handling across the stream.

Requirements

• 4+ years building distributed, real-time or streaming backend systems.
• Strong in Go, Rust, Python or C++ and message/streaming systems (Kafka, NATS, gRPC).
• Comfortable with Docker, GPUs and on-prem/air-gapped deployment constraints.
• Bias toward correctness and observability in systems that can't fail.

Skills

• Go
• Rust
• Python
• Kafka
• gRPC