Backend Engineer, Streaming Media

Who We Are

Sauron protects your family and home, bringing the innovations of autonomous robots and self-driving cars to residential security. Our team is led by veteran entrepreneurs and roboticists, alumni of Zipline, Tesla, Apple, and Google. Sauron has raised an $22M seed round led by A* and Atomic with participation from other leading venture capital firms and angel investors, including 8VC and Flock Safety CEO Garret Langley. 

The Role | Backend Engineer, Streaming Media

Sauron Industries is looking to create a new modality for homeowners to interact with their properties and security systems, based on a 3D model of the home in a beautiful app for iPad and iPhone. We are looking for a highly skilled, thoughtful, and collaborative Backend Engineer to help design, develop and deliver this innovative technology to a wide user base. 

We are looking for someone who is creative, detail-oriented, and cares deeply about the user experience. The ideal candidate is strategic about building for the long run, and enjoys the process of collaborating with teammates to architect reliable, scalable and maintainable applications. You’ll solve challenging problems and provide input into both product roadmaps and development approaches. 

We Value

• Collaboration, pair programming, and teamwork.

• Making small improvements and shipping code to production continuously.

• Taking ownership across the stack.

• Iterative development and refactoring regularly to keep our codebases healthy.

You Will Contribute By

• Designing and developing performant and scalable streaming systems

• Develop automation scripting and video analysis tools

• Building security-first systems for mass consumption

• Working closely with designers and AI engineers to continuously improve on the user experience

• Conducting thorough testing to identify and resolve issues before deployment

Your Background Includes

• BS Computer Science + 5 years of industry experience or MS Computer Science + 3 year of industry experience or equivalent combination of education and trainings 

• Experience working in a video OTT/broadcast environment

• Knowledge of video codecs and compression (H.264/AVC, H.265/HEVC)

• Knowledge of audio codecs and containers (AAC, PCM, AC-3, EAC-3, MPEG-1 Layer-II)

• Knowledge of ABR/OTT technologies (HLS, DASH)

• Knowledge of MPEG Transport Streams in broadcast and ABR workflows

• Knowledge of WebRTC

• Basic experience with command-line video tools like FFMPEG, MP4Box, and TSDuck

• Basic network transport knowledge (Multicast, TCP/UDP)

• Excellent ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with designers, product owners, and engineers in other domains.

Nice to Have (familiarity with/desire to learn)

• Knowledge of AWS Kinesis or similar video streaming services

• Deeper understanding of CDNs

• Familiarity with end-to-end testing frameworks.

• CI/CD systems