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title: 'Principal Engineer at Audinate'
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# Principal Engineer at Audinate

- **Company:** Audinate
- **Location:** Sydney, Australia
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-08-04
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/audinate/1570fde5-2187-4702-ab62-d2b0fcb67b3c

## Job description

Find Your Connection to Endless Possibilities

Are you a lead software engineer looking for the next step in your career? If the opportunity to work in a global industry leader with a diverse culture excites you, this may be the role for you. With Audinate, you’ll find your connection to the world of sound and vision. We lead the world in AV networking media to pioneer the way people see and hear. Our products seamlessly manage hundreds of audio and video channels with one network, making us the industry standard. You’ll find us in the largest companies and institutions like the Sydney Opera House, NFL Media Headquarters, Microsoft, and even a 900-year old cathedral featured in Harry Potter. Our core values are the foundation of everything we do: Excellence, Courage, Integrity, Innovation, and Teamwork. If this resonates with you, this is the place for you.

## What you’ll experience with us

No matter your role, you’ll feel part of our team and contribute to pioneering the future of AV so that everyone can be seen and heard. In addition to a competitive salary, annual bonus and equity incentive plan you’ll be part of our diverse, values-based culture. You’ll also enjoy a range of benefits such as flexible working (3 days per week in office), home office support, and volunteering leave.

## What you'll be working on

Audinate is building a new generation of products for installed AV, spanning on-site appliances and the cloud services that work with them. A new engineering group is behind it, and the first products are in development.

Installed AV means many vendors, many protocols. Our products control third-party gear, sit inside other control systems, and have to be open enough that others can build on ours. Getting the integration model right is a big part of the architecture.

We're looking for a senior engineer who can turn a roadmap into good engineering decisions. The architecture spans on-prem appliances and cloud services, and most of it is still to be made. You'll work with product managers and the tech leads on each team, often on the questions that are unclear or don't have an owner yet. The group is 20+ engineers across several teams.

You will

- Lead the decisions that span appliance and cloud. What runs where, how state stays consistent, how third-party integrations run safely inside the product

- Take a position on the calls that cut across teams, like build vs buy and the trade-offs with no clean answer

- Work with product managers to get from goals to buildable systems, and surface the constraints that should shape the roadmap

- Find and reduce the technical risk no single team owns

- Improve test strategy, automation and development process

- Prove out AI-assisted engineering workflows and roll out the ones that work

## What we're looking for

- You've designed and shipped systems where edge devices and cloud services work together reliably

- Strong distributed systems fundamentals: networking, protocol design, reliability, observability

- At home in the messiness of real-world integration: protocols, APIs, third-party systems

- You're hands-on, proving designs in code rather than diagrams

- You pick tools to fit the problem and get productive in unfamiliar ones quickly. Today that means C++, Rust, TypeScript, GraphQL, MongoDB, Redis and AWS

- You get real value from AI-assisted development because you've built the guardrails, workflows or tooling to deal with its limits

- You've shaped architecture and engineering culture through credibility, not headcount, and you can make a vague mandate concrete

- Professional AV or audio networking background is a plus, not a requirement

If you're a Principal Engineer or Technical Lead looking for an opportunity to make a difference we may be on the same wavelength.

Apply now and submit your CV and cover letter.

## About Audinate

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Audinate develops and licenses Dante, the industry-standard platform for distributing high-quality digital audio and video signals over standard computer networks (AV-over-IP), used in thousands of professional AV products worldwide.
- **Entity Type**: Public (Audinate Group Limited, listed on the Australian Securities Exchange)
- **Headquarters**: Sydney, Australia [investor.audinate.com](https://investor.audinate.com/FormBuilder/_Resource/_module/U31UphySGkWm4tEdvC_Xbw/file/Audinate_2025_Annual_Report.pdf)
- **Founded**: 2006 [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/audinate)
- **Founders**: Not publicly available (originated from a small team of engineers formerly with Motorola Research Labs and backed by NICTA, a government research institute) [audinate.com/company/history](https://www.audinate.com/company/history/)

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Professional Audio/Visual (AV) networking technology and AV-over-IP solutions.
- Target customers: B2B – Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), system integrators, AV professionals, and end-users in live sound, broadcast, education, corporate, government, and more.
- Mission / purpose: “Amplifying the future of AV, enabling connection across people, places and stages around the world” [audinate.com/careers](https://www.audinate.com/careers/).

## Products & Services
- **Dante Platform (Core Technology)**: A suite of software, chips, and modules licensed to OEMs and integrated into professional AV products. Enables interoperable audio and video networking over IP. Includes Dante Controller (network management tool) and Dante Virtual Soundcard. [investor.audinate.com](https://investor.audinate.com/FormBuilder/_Resource/_module/U31UphySGkWm4tEdvC_Xbw/file/Audinate_2025_Annual_Report.pdf)
- **Dante Director**: Cloud-based SaaS platform for monitoring, configuring, and managing multi-site Dante AV networks. [investor.audinate.com](https://investor.audinate.com/FormBuilder/_Resource/_module/U31UphySGkWm4tEdvC_Xbw/file/Audinate_2025_Annual_Report.pdf)
- **Dante Device Link**: Connector for OEMs that exposes device-level controls (e.g., gain, EQ, fault detection) to Audinate’s cloud management platform. [investor.audinate.com](https://investor.audinate.com/FormBuilder/_Resource/_module/U31UphySGkWm4tEdvC_Xbw/file/Audinate_2025_Annual_Report.pdf)
- **Dante AVIO Adapters**: Hardware adapters to connect legacy analog or USB devices to Dante networks. Next-generation “Phoenix” adapters launched in FY25. [investor.audinate.com](https://investor.audinate.com/FormBuilder/_Resource/_module/U31UphySGkWm4tEdvC_Xbw/file/Audinate_2025_Annual_Report.pdf)
- **Dante Virtual Soundcard Pro**: Software-based solution for recording, broadcast, and conferencing workflows. [investor.audinate.com](https://investor.audinate.com/FormBuilder/_Resource/_module/U31UphySGkWm4tEdvC_Xbw/file/Audinate_2025_Annual_Report.pdf)
- **Dante Connect**: Cloud-based solution for professional audio broadcast production from any location. [audinate.com/company/history](https://www.audinate.com/company/history/)
- **Iris Studio (Acquired)**: AI-powered, cloud-based camera control technology, acquired in June 2025 to extend video capabilities. [investor.audinate.com](https://investor.audinate.com/FormBuilder/_Resource/_module/U31UphySGkWm4tEdvC_Xbw/file/Audinate_2025_Annual_Report.pdf)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not publicly available from provided search results.
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue: A$62.1M (FY2025, per company summary; statutory revenue A$40.0M per financial statements) [investor.audinate.com](https://investor.audinate.com/FormBuilder/_Resource/_module/U31UphySGkWm4tEdvC_Xbw/file/Audinate_2025_Annual_Report.pdf). Revenue declined 32.2% year-over-year.
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: Over 600 OEM licensees (including 725 brands, 490 manufacturers shipping 4,603 Dante-enabled products). Early backing from NICTA (National Information and Communications Technology of Australia). [investor.audinate.com](https://investor.audinate.com/FormBuilder/_Resource/_module/U31UphySGkWm4tEdvC_Xbw/file/Audinate_2025_Annual_Report.pdf)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - 316,990 Dante-certified AV professionals globally (+48,472 in FY25).
  - 1.2 million unique website visitors (up 33% YoY).
  - Dante Video: 116 products from 60 brands (76% YoY product increase).
  - 129 design wins in FY25 (up 12%).
  - Acquisition of Iris Studio to expand AI-powered video capabilities. [investor.audinate.com](https://investor.audinate.com/FormBuilder/_Resource/_module/U31UphySGkWm4tEdvC_Xbw/file/Audinate_2025_Annual_Report.pdf)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Ecosystem scale**: Dante is the dominant standard in professional AV networking with ~14× adoption over the nearest competitor. Over 4,600 Dante-enabled products from 490 manufacturers ensure interoperability and lock-in.
- **OEM network**: 725 licensed brands create a self-reinforcing ecosystem that is hard for competitors to replicate.
- **Training & certification**: 316,990 certified professionals create a large pool of skilled users and consultants who specify Dante.
- **Platform breadth**: From chips and modules to cloud management (Dante Director) and AI camera control (Iris), Audinate covers the full AV-over-IP stack.

## Strategic Focus
- **Cloud and software shift**: Expanding SaaS offerings (Dante Director, cloud management) to move beyond hardware licensing and capture recurring revenue.
- **Video growth**: Accelerating Dante Video adoption through partnerships and the acquisition of Iris Studio to deliver integrated audio-video-over-IP solutions.
- **Enterprise-grade capabilities**: Enhancing Dante Director with advanced security, performance monitoring, and media encryption for corporate IT environments.
- **R&D investment**: A$15.3M in product development during FY25, focusing on cloud management, device control, and video. [investor.audinate.com](https://investor.audinate.com/FormBuilder/_Resource/_module/U31UphySGkWm4tEdvC_Xbw/file/Audinate_2025_Annual_Report.pdf)

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Global company with a mission to “amplify the future of AV.” Emphasizes ownership (equity awards for all employees), flexibility, and support for community involvement (volunteering leave). [audinate.com/careers](https://www.audinate.com/careers/)
- **Work model**: Office-based, hybrid, and remote options available depending on role and location. Financial support is provided for tools and home office. [audinate.com/careers](https://www.audinate.com/careers/)
- **Locations**: Sydney (HQ), Portland (OR), Hong Kong, United Kingdom, and other global offices. [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/audinate)
- **Perks**: Employee Assistance Program, bonus/commission plans, equity awards, and a focus on health and wellbeing. [audinate.com/careers](https://www.audinate.com/careers/)
- **Engineering culture**: Opportunity to work on industry-defining technology (Dante) with a team of experts in AV networking, cloud, and AI. Roles include Site Reliability Engineer, Channel Marketing Specialist, Office Manager, and more. [jobs.lever.co/audinate](https://jobs.lever.co/audinate)

## Sources
1. [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/audinate) – Company overview (revenue, employees, founded year)
2. [audinate.com/company/history](https://www.audinate.com/company/history/) – Company history, founding story, and product evolution
3. [audinate.com/careers](https://www.audinate.com/careers/) – Career page with culture, perks, and work

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