Senior Engineer, Live Streaming Video Specialist

FloSports is the leading digital platform for underserved sports, combining live and on-demand streaming, original programming, data, and technology to help sports grow their audiences and build sustainable businesses, from youth to professional levels. By bringing thousands of events and communities onto one platform, Flo creates scale where none previously existed, connecting passionate fans with the sports they love while giving athletes, organizers, and rights holders the tools to reach and engage a global audience. Flo streams more than 50,000 live events annually across sports, including motorsports, wrestling, hockey, track & field, cheer, jiu-jitsu, NCAA Division II and III athletics, and more. We’re looking for people who are passionate about sports, embody accountability, collaboration, curiosity, positivity, grit, and excellence, and are motivated to help grow and elevate the communities we serve. THE ROLE: You will play a key role in designing, building, and operating the live streaming platform at FloSports, delivering tens of thousands of live events every year to fans around the world. This is a role for a proven video specialist: we expect demonstrated, hands-on experience operating live broadcast video at scale in production, spanning contribution, transcoding, packaging, and delivery across many concurrent events. You'll own the backend services and APIs behind that pipeline end-to-end using Node.js/NestJS and/or Go, and you'll be accountable for keeping the full live signal chain reliable under real-world broadcast conditions, including redundancy and graceful failover. Experience with AWS Elemental Media Services is a strong plus. As a senior member of the team, you will also participate in an on-call rotation to help ensure the reliability of our live streaming platform. RESPONSIBILITIES: - Operate, automate, and continuously improve the live broadcast video pipeline (contribution, transcoding, packaging, and delivery) for tens of thousands of e