Staff Software Engineer, Platform & Infrastructure (Global Scale)

Stream • Netherlands

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AI Summary

Lead the design and optimization of Stream’s global infrastructure platform, ensuring sub-millisecond latency, 99.999% uptime, and cost-efficient scaling. Define SLOs, build self-hosted open-source tooling, and drive observability, cost visibility, and incident resolution for a high-growth, globally distributed team.

Key Highlights

Own the end-to-end infrastructure platform for a billion+ user-facing services with strict SLOs (99.999% uptime, single-digit ms latency).

Shape company margins by optimizing hosting, reducing costs, and eliminating wasteful spending via FinOps and cloud commitments.

Build internal tools (debugging, deployment, observability) and external customer-facing tools with full ownership from design to execution.

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Key Responsibilities

Define platform SLOs (latency, uptime, error rates) and measure customer app health across global services.

Lead infrastructure decisions (hosting, scaling, cost tradeoffs) with cross-team collaboration (backend, video, moderation).

Design and implement internal tooling (deployment, debugging, observability) and external customer-facing tools.

Own on-call rotation, reduce alert noise, and ensure durable fixes for incidents via root-cause analysis.

Integrate cost visibility into engineering decisions via FinOps practices and team-specific infrastructure budgets.

Technical Skills Required

Distributed Systems Design Go/Python (Production Code) Cloud Infrastructure (GCP/AWS)

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Benefits & Perks

28 days paid time off + Dutch public holidays

Pension plan, commute coverage (NS Business Card/Swapfiets), €60/month fitness contribution

Work from anywhere (up to 4 weeks/year), full Dutch statutory leave (topped-up paternity leave)

MacBook Pro + peripherals, relocation support, visa sponsorship, 30% ruling support

Learning & development budget, catered lunches/snacks, Amsterdam office

Conference attendance/speaking opportunities, open-source SDK contributions

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Nice to Have

Production Kubernetes (cluster architecture, migrations)

PostgreSQL at scale (sharding, replication, CloudNativePG)

Valkey/Redis on Kubernetes, real-time systems (WebSockets/WebRTC)

Multi-cloud AWS/GCP migrations, cloud commitment strategies

SLO design, Prometheus/Grafana observability, open-source contributions

Job Description

The role

We are hiring a Staff Software Engineer for our Infrastructure team.

Stream runs behind apps that more than a billion people use: billions of API requests a month, a 99.999% uptime promise, and a small team keeping it all running. Infrastructure here decides how fast our products feel, how well they scale, and how quickly we can launch new ones.

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