Senior Software Engineering, Video Encoding

Job Description

Overview and Responsibilities

As a Senior Software Engineering - Video Encoding, you will be expected to contribute with a team of engineers to support an industry-leading Over-the-Top (OTT) software platform. You will attend regular sprint meetings, and work closely with other engineers to fix bugs, work on technical debt, and design & implement features. In this role, you will be considered to be 100% autonomous for day-to-day work.

Furthermore, you will be mentored by an engineer. This mentoring will come in the form of pair programming, ''review buddies'' (code and presentations), etc.

Basic Qualifications

As an individual contributor you will need to provide validated expertise in the following areas:
• 5+ years Experience with Transcoding/Encoding ○ Knowledge of FFMPEG ○ Familiarity with Dolby Hybrik, AWS Elemental, or similar.
• Experience with compiled languages for backend web applications ○ GoLang (preferred), Java, C++, etc.
• 5+ years Experience with OTT ○ HLS and/or DASH ○ Dynamic Ad Insertion (DAI), Server-Side Ad Insertion (SSAI), Adaptive Bitrate (ABR) Streaming, etc.
• 10+ years of experience in a relevant field (engineering, physics, mathematics, etc)

Additional Qualifications

Experience with the following would be advantageous. Missing too many may result in too steep of a learning curve. Please be open and honest with yourself. If you don't have a skill set that would allow you to be 100% autonomous with at least 6 of the following technologies and concepts, you would not be a good fit for this position. Consider further, you will be expected to mentor others on these technologies and concepts.
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, CloudFormation, Kubernetes, Helm
• GitHub, GitHub Actions
• Jenkins, Circleci, Ansible, Salt, etc
• Microservices Architecture
• Testing Best Practices ○ Unit Tests ○ Automated test suites
• Software Design Best Practices ○ Encapsulation ○ Decoupling ○ Happy Path + Design for Failure
• Support quick resolution to emergent production issues.
• Conversational verbal skills for the English language.
• Excellent written skills for the English language

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-d93zx7-3-12-34-178-42 in your application.