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Lead Engineer at Stream

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Stream

Location: Amsterdam (NL), Skopje (North Macedonia) | Remote Possible | Full Time | Visa Sponsorship

We power real-time Chat, Video, Activity Feeds, and AI Moderation for apps like Strava, Bumble, eBay, and Patreon - billions of API requests per month, millions of concurrent users.

About the Role

We're looking for a hands-on Lead Engineer (Staff / Principal level) to own Platform & Infrastructure.

Reports directly to the CTO.

Small, senior team - you'll write code most of the time, not run a process org.

First 6 months focus on three things with measurable outcomes:

  • Cloud cost optimization (AWS/GCP) — tooling and guardrails, not reports
  • Platform reliability and scalability — SLOs, observability, hardening
  • Architecture decisions on Kubernetes, databases, and cloud provider strategy

Stack

Go, Python, AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, CockroachDB, Redis, Terraform.

Requirements

Looking for:

  • Software engineering background (Go or Python, not scripting-only)
  • Production cloud cost optimization experience
  • Real distributed systems depth
  • Active AI tooling use in your engineering workflow

Not a Fit If

  • You're security/compliance-heavy
  • Scripting-only
  • Dependent on large-org support structures

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Full JD + apply here: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/stream/cbabbb5d-0e34-486b-acf7-ce40...

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