Protent
Video Infrastructure Engineer
United States (on-site or remote) · Full-time · Posted Oct 29, 2026
- Experience
- No number of years specified.
About the job
Build and operate secure, reliable video-ingestion integrations that connect cameras and video management systems to Protent’s dashboard and real-time AI pipeline.
What you'll do
- Integrate live and recorded video from cameras, NVRs/encoders, and major VMS platforms.
- Own and scale the MediaMTX and FFmpeg pipeline, including ingest, transcoding, multiplexing, and stream routing.
- Design low-latency, fault-tolerant, secure video connections while reducing bandwidth and cloud-compute costs.
What they ask for
- Strong hands-on experience with FFmpeg and MediaMTX or equivalent streaming pipelines.
- Strong experience with video streaming protocols, including RTSP, ONVIF, RTP/SRTP, WebRTC, or HLS.
- Hands-on integration with IP cameras, NVRs/encoders, and at least one major VMS.
- Networking fundamentals and backend proficiency in Go and/or Python, plus cloud infrastructure experience.
Nice to have
- Security, government, or regulated-environment experience; CJIS familiarity is a plus.
- Video at scale (hundreds+ of concurrent streams) or edge/on-device software experience.
Tools
MediaMTX, FFmpeg, RTSP, ONVIF, RTP/SRTP, WebRTC/HLS, Go, Python
AI focus
Build the video-ingestion layer that delivers streams and frames to Protent’s real-time vision-language models.
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