About this role

About 10Pearls

10Pearls is a global, purpose-driven AI-Native digital engineering partner helping businesses re-imagine, ‎digitalize, and accelerate. As an end-to-end digital technology partner, 10Pearls helps businesses create future-proof, ‎transformative ‎digital products that leverage emerging technologies. ‎10Pearls' clients ‎include Global 2000 enterprises, high growth mid-size ‎businesses, and some of the most exciting ‎start-ups from industries like healthcare, fintech, ‎energy, education, ‎real estate, retail, and hi-tech. ‎Headquartered in the Washington DC metro area, 10Pearls has product engineering and ‎software development centers in North America, Latin America, Europe, and South Asia. To learn more, visit https://10pearls.com .

Role Overview

We are seeking a highly skilled Backend Engineer with strong expertise in real-time media streaming, low-latency communication, and distributed backend systems using C++ or Golang. The ideal candidate must have deep hands-on experience with streaming protocols, real-time communication frameworks, and high-performance backend engineering. This role involves designing and building backend microservices that power real-time audio/video communication, streaming pipelines, and low-latency data flows across distributed systems.

Responsibilities

- Design, develop, and maintain high-performance backend services using Go or C++.

- Build and optimize real-time microservices that support low-latency communication across a distributed architecture.

- Develop and enhance WebSocket, REST, and real-time APIs used by client-facing applications.

- Work extensively with media streaming technologies, including RTP, SRTP, WebRTC, and related protocols.

- Implement and optimize WebRTC SFUs (Selective Forwarding Units) for scalable audio/video streaming.

- Integrate and optimize media workflows using tools and libraries such as FFmpeg and GStreamer.

- Work with databases such as MySQL, Redis, MongoDB, and design efficient data models for real-time workloads.

- Ensure backend services meet high standards of security, reliability, and performance using modern DevOps and SRE practices.

- Collaborate closely with Frontend, DevOps, and Product teams to deliver end-to-end features.

- Write clean, well-documented, and maintainable code following best engineering practices.

- Diagnose performance bottlenecks and optimize backend systems for scalability and speed.

Requirements

- 5+ years of hands-on backend development experience using Go and/or C++.

- Strong expertise in real-time media streaming, including one or more of the following:

- RTP / SRTP

- WebRTC (MUST-HAVE)

- WebRTC SFU implementation

- Deep understanding of video/audio processing, with experience using FFmpeg, GStreamer, or similar frameworks.

- Understanding of networking concepts, including TCP, UDP, ICE, STUN/TURN, and WebSockets.

- Strong understanding of concurrency, asynchronous programming, and performance tuning.

- Experience building and consuming RESTful and WebSocket APIs.

- Hands-on experience with message queues such as Kafka, NATS, or RabbitMQ.

- Experience working with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure).

- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work on low-latency, high-throughput systems.

- Proficient in C++ or Go for media streaming

- Familiarity with monitoring, logging, and tracing tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry) is a plus.

- A good understanding of containerization and orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes is preferred.

- Experience working with real-time communication platforms is an added advantage.