Staff Backend Engineer, Video and Streaming

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.

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.

About knightscope

KSCP) is a security technology company building the nation's 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.

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

Requirements

• 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 .

Preferred

• Security or surveillance video pipeline experience.
• Edge-to-cloud video ingest and processing architectures.
• Prior insourcing of a media backend from a third party.

Benefits

• $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