Stream - Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands - Hybrid€60/hour3w ago

In Office Staff EMEA Cloud Computing Software Engineer Staff Engineer Python Go Kubernetes Valkey Redis

Requirements

• A software engineer who has built systems, not only configured them. You write production code in Go, Python or a similar language. Scripting-only backgrounds are not a fit. • Scripting-only backgrounds are not a fit. • Strong system design. You can reason about failure modes, capacity and cost in distributed systems, and explain why you chose what you chose. • Strong system design • Solid fundamentals in networking, storage and concurrency, and the habit of asking why a system behaves the way it does instead of accepting the default. • networking • storage • concurrency • You have owned high-scale production systems and set technical direction beyond your own work, through design reviews, RFCs and decisions other engineers build on. • owned high-scale production systems • You experiment. When you hit Kubernetes, a database or a cloud service you have not run before, you dig in, use AI to close the gap, and ship. • You already use AI tools every day in your engineering work. • use AI tools every day • You treat cost and reliability as engineering problems, and you can put a number on an outcome you drove. • You write clearly. Much of this role is docs and standards that other teams will follow. • You are comfortable in a small team, setting direction and reviewing a PR in the same week. • Kubernetes in production: cluster architecture, workload design or a migration you led. • Valkey or Redis at scale, ideally on Kubernetes. • Hands-on AWS and GCP, including multi-cloud setups or migrations between providers. • Cloud commitment and reservation strategy (committed use discounts, savings plans), or formal FinOps practice. • SLO design, alert hygiene and a Prometheus and Grafana based observability stack. • Real-time systems: WebSockets, WebRTC, streaming or other persistent-connection workloads. • Open source contributions, or writing and talks on cloud, platform or distributed systems. • Our stack • Our stack • Go, gRPC, RocksDB, Python • Grafana, Prometheus, ELK (Elasticsearch and Kibana) • Jaeger and Tempo for distributed tracing, Datadog • Redis, Memcached • Claude Code, Cursor

Responsibilities

• Define what "good" looks like for the platform. Set latency and uptime SLOs for every product team, and decide what we measure, from error rates and delivery times to how healthy our customers' apps really are. • Make the big infrastructure calls. Lead the design reviews and decisions on where and how we run, working with backend, video and moderation engineers on tradeoffs that cross service boundaries. • Build the platform tooling. Write the internal tools and services that help engineers ship, deploy and debug faster, plus the docs and AI skills that make launching a new product repeatable. • Turn incidents into fixes that stick. Take part in on-call, and make sure every root cause ends in a durable fix, not a workaround. • Make cost part of every design. Weigh cost alongside reliability in every decision, and give teams the numbers to do the same. • You want platform and infrastructure problems at a scale most engineers never touch, and the autonomy to set the direction yourself. • You would rather try something, measure it and change course than wait for a perfect plan. • You ship fast and learn fast, including when it is hectic. • You are self-directed and comfortable working with a globally distributed team across time zones. • You probably will not if • You want to stay a specialist in one layer of the stack. • You want tightly scoped tickets and step-by-step direction. • You need a calm, highly predictable environment.

Benefits

• For employees based in the Netherlands: • 28 days paid time off plus Dutch public holidays • Commute covered: an NS Business Card or a company Swapfiets • Fitness contribution of up to €60 a month toward a gym or sports club membership • Learning and development budget • Work from anywhere: up to four weeks a year • Full Dutch statutory leave, with Stream topping up paternity leave to 100% pay • Catered team lunches in the office, and snacks • MacBook Pro and peripherals • Relocation support, visa sponsorship and 30% ruling support • An office in the centre of Amsterdam • Conferences and meetups, as an attendee or a speaker • The chance to work on our open source SDKs • We're a Series B company with global presence and a team of around 145 people from more than 35 countries. • We're backed by Felicis Ventures, GGV Capital, 01 Advisors, Techstars, and Arthur Ventures, with angels including Dick Costolo (ex-CEO of Twitter), Olivier Pomel (CEO of Datadog), Tom Preston-Werner (co-founder of GitHub), and Nicolas Dessaigne (co-founder of Algolia). • We'll be straight with you: a startup is more demanding than a large company. There's no fixed playbook, you'll own things end to end, and you'll sometimes pick up work outside your title. That's also what makes it a fast place to grow. If you want real ownership and high scale more than structure and a set career ladder, you'll feel at home here. • Hybrid office policy: applicants based (or relocating to) one of our office locations are expected to work according to the applicable local office attendance policy. • Hybrid office policy: