Senior Backend Software Engineer – Video Engineering
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Senior backend engineer designing Philo’s scalable video ingest, transcoding, and delivery systems. Improving streaming quality, reliability, and ad-supported viewing across platforms.
Responsibilities:
- Design, implement, deploy and monitor Philo’s next-generation video streaming pipeline
- Collaborate with content partners to engineer systems delivering the best possible TV-watching experience
- Build scalable and resilient data pipelines for ingesting video and analytics events using distributed computing and microservices architecture
- Collaborate with video delivery, ad operations and data science stakeholders to measure and optimize video delivery and viewing experience
- Improve the reliability, performance, latency and security of the video streaming platform
- Evaluate, select and develop video encoding technologies to optimize video quality and reduce CDN delivery costs
- Assist client engineering teams in testing and improving streaming QoE for new Philo app platforms
- Build and maintain highly available RESTful web services that scale for simultaneous video streams
Requirements:
- 8+ years of software development experience
- Proven track record building highly efficient and highly available software using Golang, Java, C++ or similar programming languages
- Deep experience with concurrent programming
- Experience building concurrent, highly available, high-throughput RESTful web services
- Experience operating in cloud computing environments using modern software deployment technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
- Ability to own and drive complex architectural/development tasks to completion using Scrum/Agile methodologies
- Experience with large amounts of data and data-based project prioritization
- Familiarity with relational and non-relational databases and modern data warehousing and querying
- Experience collaborating with internal and external stakeholders in business and technical roles
- Familiarity with cloud video transcoding services such as AWS Elemental and Azure Media Services
- Experience or aptitude with audio and video codecs such as AAC, H.264/AVC, H.265/HEVC and AV1
- Experience with video quality assessment tools such as VMAF and SSIM
- Experience with video streaming protocols such as MPEG-DASH, HLS, MPEG TS, fMP4, CMAF, Zixi and SRT
- Experience with OTT video packaging and DRM
- Familiarity with Server-Side Ad Insertion (SSAI)
- Must be currently authorized to work lawfully in the U.S.
- Willingness to answer employment-based visa sponsorship questions
Benefits:
- Company stock options
- Full health, dental and vision coverage for you and your family
- 401(k) plan with employer contributions
- Flexible working hours
- Up to 20 weeks of fully paid parental leave
- Unlimited paid time off for vacation and sick leave
- $2,000 annual vacation bonus
- $5,250 annually for professional development and educational assistance
- $1,250 annual home office + TV stipend during first year of employment ($250 annually thereafter)
- $500/month ($6,000/year) bonus for employees who commit to working at least 3 days per week in our offices
- Generous commuter benefits ($315/month towards transit, rideshare, bike rental, or parking at our HQ office in San Francisco)
- Free Gympass subscription
- Dog-friendly office
- Accommodation support during the hiring process
- Equal opportunity and inclusive workplace
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