Staff Backend Engineer, Video and Streaming

Knightscope Inc
  • Sunnyvale, CA
  • $210,000–$250,000 Per Year
  • Autofill and Review
11 days ago

Job Description

About Knightscope Knightscope (NASDAQ: KSCP) is a security technology company building the nations first Autonomous Security Force: autonomous machines, AI-driven software, and elite security professionals operating as one integrated managed service. The Company is on a mission to make the United States of America the safest country in the world. One Team. One Force.

Job Summary You will own the video and streaming backend that powers Signals, taking it from a third-party vendor into internal ownership. This is the highest-traffic backend in the Signals platform, and the technical decisions you make here will shape Signals for years.

Location: ONSITE - Sunnyvale, CA

About the Role You will own the video and streaming backend that powers Signals, taking it from a third-party vendor into internal ownership. This is the highest-traffic backend in the Signals platform, and the technical decisions you make here will shape Signals for years.

Key Responsibilities

Own the video and streaming backend for Signals end to end.

Lead vendor knowledge transfer on video pipeline architecture and operations.

Partner with the Video UI frontend team on end-to-end streaming experience.

Partner with the ML/CV team on model serving for ICM 2.0.

Establish SLOs, on-call rotation, and cost optimization for the video pipeline.

Required Qualifications

10+ years in backend engineering, including staff-level architectural ownership.

Deep experience with video streaming systems (WebRTC, HLS, RTMP, or similar).

High-throughput real-time systems at scale.

Strong distributed systems fundamentals.

Production ownership of media pipelines.

Nice to Have

Security or surveillance video pipeline experience.

Edge-to-cloud video ingest and processing architectures.

Prior insourcing of a media backend from a third party.

Compensation and Benefits Base Salary: $210,000 to $250,000 (DOE) Equity: Stock options Benefits: Medical, dental, vision, 401(k), paid time off Location Requirement: Full-time, on-site at Sunnyvale HQ

Numbers & Facts

LocationSunnyvale, CA
Salary$210,000–$250,000 Per Year

Skills

  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)unmatched
  • Cloud Computingunmatched
  • Distributed Computingunmatched
  • High Throughputunmatched
  • Knowledge Transferunmatched
  • Media Productionunmatched
  • Routing Table Maintenance Protocol (RTMP)unmatched
  • User Interface/Experience (UI/UX)unmatched
  • Video Processingunmatched
  • Video Streamingunmatched

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