We engineer state-of-the-art generative AI pipelines and foundation models that catalyze the next wave of music innovation—for labels, artists, models, distributors and listeners alike.

Music deserves infrastructure as powerful and versatile as its creativity.

Industry: Software Development
Company Size: 11-50 employees

SoundPatrol

Savvy Admin PROD

**Company Description **

SoundPatrol is at the forefront of engineering cutting-edge generative AI pipelines and foundation models designed to transform the music industry. Our solutions empower labels, artists, distributors, and listeners, fueling the next wave of music innovation. We believe in creating an infrastructure as dynamic and versatile as the creativity found in music. Join us in shaping the future of music technology and innovation.

**Role: Senior Systems Engineer (Contract) — Real-Time Media & Network Intelligence **

**Overview **

We’re building a real-time system that discovers, analyzes, and tracks live media streams across the open internet.

This is not a typical crawler or scraping job.

You’ll be working on a stateful, low-latency pipeline that ingests noisy signals (social platforms, playlists, web surfaces), resolves them into playable media streams, and processes them in real time under adversarial conditions.

If you’ve ever built:

- high-performance crawlers

- stream ingestion systems

- headless browser pipelines

or real-time distributed systems under unreliable inputs, you’ll feel right at home.

**What You’ll Work On**

- Designing and implementing a finite-state, event-driven crawler system

- Building a multi-stage discovery → expansion → resolution pipeline

- Developing stream resolution logic (redirect chains, tokenized URLs, JS-based players)

- Capturing and buffering live media streams (HLS, DASH, continuous audio)

- Implementing low-latency processing pipelines for short media segments

- Creating infrastructure graph expansion systems (domains, IPs, ASNs, related surfaces)

- Building resilient systems that operate under expiring tokens, anti-bot protections and unstable endpoints

- Working with real-time orchestration + worker scaling

**Core Requirements **

- Strong experience with Rust (preferred) or high-performance backend systems

- Proven experience building real-time or near-real-time systems

- Experience with web crawling / scraping at scale, headless browsers (Playwright, Puppeteer), streaming media systems (HLS/DASH, ffmpeg pipelines), network / protocol-level debugging (HTTP, TLS, CDNs)

- Deep understanding of state machines, concurrency, and distributed systems

- Comfortable working in adversarial / unreliable environments (things break, expire, mutate)

**Strong Plus **

- Experience with working directly with CDNs

- Experience with media pipelines (audio/video processing, transcoding, buffering)

- Familiarity with playlist formats (.m3u8, .mpd, .m3u)

- Exposure to IPTV ecosystems or stream aggregation systems

- Experience with ClickHouse, Kafka, or high-throughput data systems

- Background in security, anti-abuse, or network intelligence systems

**What Makes This Interesting **

- You’re not just crawling pages — you’re tracking evolving entities across transformations

- You’ll build systems that operate in seconds, not minutes

- The environment is dynamic, adversarial, and constantly shifting

- The output of your work feeds directly into real-time decision systems

**How We Work **

- Small, fast-moving team

- Direct ownership of systems (no bureaucracy)

- Focus on clean architecture + performance

- You’ll be expected to think in systems, not tickets

**Engagement Details **

- Contract role (with potential extension)

- Immediate start preferred

- Hours must overlap with US time zones

**How to Apply **

Send:

- A short note on relevant systems you’ve built

- Any experience with real-time, crawling, or media systems

- Resume

Senior Systems Engineer (Contract)

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