Senior Full Stack Software Engineer – Video Platform

Senior Full Stack Software Engineer – Video Platform

Requirements

• Background in video and audio streaming with a focus on live-streaming of user-generated content.
• Understanding of the basics of audio and video packaging principles, codecs, and other associated tools, including their relative tradeoffs, such as MPEG Video, MPEG-2 TS, HLS, DASH, H.264 AVC, H.265 HEVC, VP9, AV1, VVC, RTMP/enhanced RTMP, SRT, FFMPEG, and DRM.
• Hands-on software development experience designing and building live and video on demand streaming workflows and exposure to video technologies around mobile broadcast, ingest, transcoding, storage, playback, and related systems at scale.
• 5+ years of experience reading (preferably coding) in languages commonly used in the video space, such as c#/golang/C++/Rust/Python, and experience in other higher-level languages such as Node/TypeScript, React, or mobile languages like Kotlin or Swift.
• Familiarity with mobile video broadcasting of user-generated content and the challenges of optimizing streaming quality and reliability across a variety of devices and network conditions.
• Hands-on experience with one or more video players.
• Experience designing/building/connecting internal APIs/SDKs across the stack (backend to front end) to ensure rapid feature development.
• Willingness to mentor/train/work with other teams through documentation and live sessions on the best way to accomplish building features using the system we build/own.
• Front end development experience in web, iOS (Swift), or Android (Kotlin) required.
• Experience building and supporting scalable video pipelines in cloud environments is a huge plus. We use AWS but any cloud/container experience is fine.
• Proficiency in CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab, etc.)

Responsibilities

• Working in your team of mobile, web, back-end, and infrastructure engineers, you’ll help to design, implement/code, and support video features across the video pipeline stack, including live video ingestion, transcoding, integration, storage, and playback/usage at scale.
• Work on our backend video platform ( written in TypeScript) providing APIs for other teams to build customer experiences from.
• Collaborate with other members of the team and other teams including: mobile, web, machine learning/computer vision, and platform teams on multi-faceted projects across the entire video processing system to lead improved user experiences and outcomes.
• Review and provide feedback on designs and code/PRs.
• Help build internal SDKs, frameworks, and tooling to allow product development teams to easily integrate video into the product at different stages of the video pipeline.
• Help build real-time monitoring and measurement systems for critical operational workflows in the video pipeline, including tools for on-call developers and customer support to manage and troubleshoot issues. Support the video workflows through an occasional (few days per month) on-call rotation with a team of other engineers.
• Help interview and onboard other software engineers in the video and live-streaming space.
• Be able to be in an on call rotation to support our production systems if issues arise off hours.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience creating detailed technical documentation that details how to break down complex projects and technical details for team members of varying expertise.
• Comfortable working across multiple technologies, programming languages, and areas of the video stack.
• Able to effectively collaborate within your own and other technical teams.
• Someone who has experience learning the latest tech in the mobile and live streaming spaces.