Senior Embedded Video Streaming Engineer

Remote within Poland | Wrocław office optional | Engineering – Streaming

About the Opportunity

We are a recruiting agency partnering with a global smart home security company to find a Senior Embedded Video Streaming Engineer. Our client has a dedicated streaming department of around 20 experienced engineers working across both cloud and embedded streaming domains for camera-based smart home and IoT devices.

This role requires an engineer who can bring strong hands-on streaming expertise from day one. The team is looking for someone who has worked deeply with real streaming pipelines, not only integrated existing frameworks, and who can contribute to real-time, low-latency video streaming on resource-constrained embedded devices.

What You Will Be Doing

• Develop and optimize embedded video streaming solutions for smart home and IoT devices.
• Write, integrate, verify, and support software components for real-time streaming pipelines.
• Troubleshoot networking and streaming-related issues.
• Contribute to solution analysis, technical documentation, and code reviews.
• Perform end-to-end device testing and analyze performance and key streaming KPIs.
• Work in line with team engineering standards and development practices.

What We Are Looking For

• 5+ years of commercial experience in embedded development.
• 2–3+ years of direct hands-on experience with video/audio streaming.
• Strong C and C++ development skills; C++ is the primary language, with C also used in the project.
• Commercial experience with Embedded Linux - mandatory.
• Hands-on experience with streaming frameworks such as GStreamer, FFmpeg, WebRTC, or similar - mandatory.
• Proven experience with real-time, low-latency video streaming on resource-constrained devices.
• Strong networking background, including TCP/IP, UDP/TCP, VoIP, and Video over IP.
• Experience troubleshooting streaming and networking issues in embedded environments.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to identify root causes.
• Good written and spoken English.

Nice to Have

• Experience with RTOS.
• Experience with RTP/RTCP pipelines.
• Experience with H.264/H.265 video streaming pipelines.
• Exposure to media codecs and video quality optimization.

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• Experience with Python.

Interview Process

• Recruiter screen
• Technical interview (90 minutes, including live coding)
• Final interview with the hiring manager

What the Client Offers

• Competitive compensation and benefits.
• UoP is the primary contract model; B2B may be considered exceptionally for a very strong candidate.
• Private medical insurance.
• Paid vacation and statutory leave.
• Annual performance and loyalty bonus opportunities.
• Internal learning resources, courses, and English classes.
• Fully remote work within Poland.