- Company: Get A Job.ai
- Location: London
- Salary: Pay not listed
Website Get A Job.ai
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About This Opportunity
We are representing a confidential global streaming platform in their search for a Staff Engineer to provide architectural leadership for their media infrastructure. This role is based in London and offers significant flexibility for remote work.
Our client operates one of the world's largest content platforms, processing and delivering media to millions of listeners globally. The Media domain you'll join is responsible for the complete media pipeline—from content ingestion through transcoding, packaging, storage, delivery, and playback.
As Staff Engineer, you'll shape technical direction across multiple engineering teams, drive large-scale initiatives spanning codec rollouts and delivery infrastructure, and serve as a key architectural voice for media systems at internet scale.
Responsibilities
- Define and drive long-term architectural direction for the media pipeline across the content platform
- Lead large-scale technical initiatives spanning multiple squads and organizations, including media delivery optimization, codec implementations, and playback capabilities
- Partner with engineering managers, product managers, and senior engineers to align technical strategy with product priorities, reliability goals, and cost efficiency
- Guide architectural decisions across media ingestion, transcoding, packaging, storage, content delivery, and playback systems
- Author and review RFCs, architecture decision records, and technical design documents that guide engineering teams and leadership
- Mentor senior engineers across the organization to raise technical quality, architectural thinking, and engineering excellence
- Apply cost-aware engineering principles by understanding how media architecture impacts compute, storage, CDN utilization, and platform sustainability
What We're Looking For
- Deep expertise building large-scale media platforms spanning audio, video, encoding, transcoding, packaging, delivery, and playback technologies
- Proven track record leading architecture across multiple engineering teams and influencing technical direction beyond immediate organizational boundaries
- Significant experience designing and operating distributed systems at internet scale, including high-throughput media processing, large-scale storage, and globally distributed delivery infrastructure
- Strong understanding of architectural trade-offs between codecs, packaging formats, playback technologies, storage, networking, and infrastructure costs
- Demonstrated success leading multi-quarter technical initiatives from proposal through implementation and organization-wide adoption
- Excellent communication skills with ability to convey technical ideas through well-structured RFCs, design documents, and architectural decision records
- Collaborative approach that builds trust through technical credibility and brings together teams with different priorities
- Passion for mentoring experienced engineers and developing organizational technical capability
- Experience working with cloud infrastructure providers, CDN vendors, and large-scale media delivery ecosystems highly valued
How We Work With You
Get A Job.ai partners with leading technology companies to connect exceptional engineering talent with transformative opportunities. When you apply through our platform, a dedicated recruiter from our talent team will screen your application and coordinate directly with you throughout the process.
We will represent you to our client and manage the interview process on your behalf. Please do not contact the client organization directly, as this may impact your candidacy. All communication and interview scheduling will flow through Get A Job.ai to ensure the best experience for you.
Location & Work Arrangement
This position is based in London with flexibility to work remotely. Our client offers a hybrid work model that allows you to work where you're most productive, with occasional in-person meetings for collaboration.
Pay
Compensation details will be discussed during the screening process with our recruiting team based on your experience and the client's compensation framework.
Get A Job.ai is an equal opportunity recruiter. We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds and work to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible. If you require accommodations at any stage of the application or interview process, please let our team know.
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A recruiter will review your profile and submit you to the client. Do not contact the client directly.
Apply through Get A Job.ai. A recruiter will review your profile and submit you. Do not contact the client directly.
Apply through Get A Job.ai. A recruiter will review your profile and submit you.
Terms used in this posting
- hybrid
- A work arrangement combining both in-office and remote/at-home work, typically on a set schedule.
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- Role Staff Engineer – Content Platform
- Employer Get A Job.ai
- Location London
- Type Full Time
- Pay (from listing) Pay not listed
- Posted September 16, 2026
- Apply by October 16, 2026
- Overview Full job description on this page (576 words)
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