Experienced Rust video Engineer – TikTok-Style Video Infrastructure

Core Platform Vision

The platform combines elements of:

• Twitter/X style social conversation
• TikTok-style short-form video
• WhatsApp-style messaging
• live score platforms
• programmable commerce
• mini program ecosystems similar to WeChat

Technical Environment

OleOle is being built primarily in Rust.

• Rust is a critical requirement for this role due to:
• performance
• concurrency
• media pipeline efficiency
• scalability
• low-latency infrastructure
• high-volume content delivery requirements

What We’re Building

The platform combines:

• social networking
• messaging
• short-form video
• live scores
• gambling
• commerce
• mini programs
• AI translation
• football history AI

Core Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable short-form video infrastructure
• Architect video ingestion and transcoding pipelines
• Optimize playback performance across mobile and web
• Design scalable media delivery systems
• Build APIs supporting high-volume video engagement
• Help architect recommendation and engagement systems
• Work on low-latency media infrastructure
• Collaborate with frontend, mobile, AI, and platform engineers
• Help optimize infrastructure for global fan engagement at scale

Qualifications

Required Technical Experience

• Strong Rust backend engineering experience
• Experience designing scalable distributed systems
• Experience building high-scale APIs
• Experience with media or video infrastructure
• Experience working with real-time systems
• Strong understanding of concurrency and low-latency infrastructure
• Experience building scalable content delivery systems
• Experience optimizing backend performance for high-volume traffic
• Strong understanding of scalable media pipelines

Preferred Experience

• Experience with video ingestion pipelines
• Experience with video transcoding systems
• Streaming infrastructure experience
• CDN optimization experience
• Short-form video feed systems experience
• Recommendation or engagement systems experience
• Real-time media delivery experience
• Upload and processing pipelines experience
• Distributed event systems experience
• Large-scale consumer platforms experience
• High-concurrency backend systems experience

Additional Preferred Skills

• Experience with FFmpeg or media processing pipelines
• Experience with WebRTC or streaming technologies
• Experience with scalable caching systems
• Experience with distributed databases
• Experience with pub/sub infrastructure
• Experience with cloud-native infrastructure
• Experience building globally distributed systems
• Experience with recommendation systems or engagement ranking
• Experience with AI-assisted moderation or translation systems
• Experience working in startup environments
• Interest in sports, football, or fan engagement products

Soft Skills

• Strong product thinking
• Ability to work independently in an early-stage startup environment
• Comfortable helping shape architecture from the ground up
• Comfortable operating with evolving product requirements
• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• Interest in ambitious long-term platform design