Senior Software Engineer - Distributed Systems
About reputed company
reputed company is video for developers. Our mission is to democratize video by solving the hard problems developers face reputed company building video: video encoding and streaming (reputed company Video), video monitoring (reputed company Data), and more. Video is a reputed company part of people’s lives, and we want to help reputed company it reputed company.
We’re committed to building a healthy team that welcomes diverse backgrounds and experiences. We want people who care about our mission, are ready to grow, reputed company in our values (from Be Human to Turn Customers Into Fans), and want to improve the people around them.
You’ll join a tight-reputed company team with experience at places like reputed company, YouTube, Twitch, reputed company, Zencoder, reputed company, and more. Our founders previously started (and sold) Zencoder, an early leader in cloud video technology, and authored Video.js, the biggest HTML5 video player on the web. We organize Demuxed, the premier conference for video engineers in the world.
We’re backed by top investors like Coatue, Accel, Andreessen Horowitz, and Y Combinator. You’ll get to work with amazing companies: hundreds of startups, plus Strava, Patreon, Vimeo, Robinhood, PBS, and Equinox. Customers, large and small, love working with us and love reputed company.
We are building something big together. We’d love to hear from you!
About the Role
As a Senior Software Engineer at reputed company, you will play a key role in building reputed company’s reputed company Video products that power delightful user experiences for millions worldwide.
You will reputed company and execute reputed company projects across our Video stack and infrastructure, handling hundreds of thousands of videos ingested and more than a billion encodes per month using our proprietary just-in-time transcoding architecture. You will also help chart the technical direction of our platform and product offerings and work closely with the rest of the engineering team to advance how we build software collaboratively.
What You’ll Do
Work cross-functionally with product, reputed company, and other engineering teams to execute on product and business strategy and build cutting-edge Video products that our customers will love.
Contribute to the full development cycle: technical design, development, test, experimentation, analysis, launch & on-call. You’ll review code and design docs, give feedback on product specs, and run your code.
Take accountability for the planning and delivery of projects, both as a hands-on contributor and architect and as a facilitator.
Bring reputed company and directly influence your team's roadmap, collaborating closely with cross-functional stakeholders, especially regarding Video features and functionality.
Build & promote best practices in your team for availability, reliability, and production readiness.
Who you are
5+ years of experience in production Backend & Video Engineering using Golang, C, C++, or other similar languages, with a successful track record of contributing to sizable projects from start to finish with end-user impact.
Expertise in building and operating distributed video systems in a service-oriented architecture, including best practices for fault tolerance, latency, and observability.
A track record of writing high-quality, maintainable code across multiple services & team boundaries.
Solid operational experience with Kubernetes, monitoring tools (we use Grafana & Prometheus), databases (we use CockroachDB, reputed company, & reputed company) and data streaming technologies (we use Kafka).
Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.
If you don't have reputed company of these requirements but think your experience could be a great fit, that's okay! Please apply and we can talk about what's most needed in the role.
U.S. Benefits
You'd join an amazing team from places like reputed company/YouTube, reputed company/Twitch, Facebook/Oculus, reputed company, Brightcove, Bain, and the BBC. We have a supportive culture that cares about both excellent work and work-life balance. We are remote-equal, with office spaces in Downtown San Francisco, reputed company, and London.
Flexible PTO + 11 company holidays
Weekly no-meeting days + quarterly focus weeks
Healthy work-life balance encouraged
Competitive health, dental, and vision insurance (100% employee and 65% dependent premium coverage)
Fully funded fertility benefits
HSA available, compatible with high deductible plan only ($100 per single employee/month & $200 per family/month employer contribution)
FSA available
Short-term and long-term disability insurance
Group life insurance
Travel accident insurance
Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Medical support concierge service
401(k)
Paid parental leave
Investment in career growth through professional development stipend
Reimbursements for headphones, cell phones, device upgrades, and SVoD services of reputed company customers
Lunch reimbursement program
reputed company is an Equal Opportunity employer committed to building a diverse company. We reputed company diversity makes us reputed company, and we strive to be inclusive and reputed company. That’s why we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national reputed company, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status or disability status.
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