We are looking for a highly skilled Senior C++ Media Backend Engineer to design and optimize media backend services powering real-time communication, conferencing, and live streaming at scale. In this role, you will develop core modules for media signaling, packet forwarding, transcoding, and recording while ensuring low latency, high concurrency, and superior audio/video quality.
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The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in C++ backend development, deep knowledge of real-time communication protocols (WebRTC, RTP/RTCP, SIP, HLS, SRT), and hands-on experience with media servers and multimedia libraries like FFmpeg, libwebrtc, and GStreamer. You will play a key role in system architecture design, performance optimization, and cross-team collaboration to deliver end-to-end, scalable, and reliable media solutions.
Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and optimize media backend services supporting real-time audio/video communication, conferencing, and live streaming with low latency and high concurrency.
- Implement core modules such as media signaling, packet forwarding, encoding/decoding, mixing/transcoding, and recording.
- Integrate with various protocols including WebRTC, RTMP, RTP, SIP, HLS, and SRT for interoperability across platforms.
- Continuously improve performance metrics such as latency, jitter, packet loss recovery, and echo cancellation.
- Participate in system architecture design and service refactoring to ensure scalability and high availability.
- Collaborate with frontend/mobile, algorithm, product, and QA teams to deliver end-to-end solutions.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science, Telecommunications, Electronics, or a related field.
- Solid backend development experience with C++.
- Familiarity with major audio/video protocols and standards such as RTP/RTCP, SRTP, SIP, SDP, and WebRTC.
- Hands-on experience developing or customizing media servers (e.g., Janus, mediasoup, Kurento, Jitsi, LiveKit, SRS) is highly preferred.
- Experience with multimedia libraries like FFmpeg, libwebrtc, GStreamer, Opus, x264/x265 is a strong plus.
- Proficient in debugging and performance optimization for real-time media applications.
- Good understanding of multithreading, async programming, network I/O, and buffer management.
- Experience with high-concurrency, distributed backend systems is a plus.
- Experience in AI + audio/video applications (e.g., AIGC calling, TTS, ASR).
- Knowledge of 3D/spatial audio, virtual avatars, or voice-driven characters.
