Senior / Staff Video Software Engineer

May 2

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Mux is the internet’s video infrastructure.

video analytics • video performance analytics • videojs • quality of service • quality of experience

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💰 $105M Series D on 2021-04

Description

• As a Senior / Staff Video Software Engineer at Mux, you will play a key role in building Mux’s next-generation Video products that power delightful user experiences for millions worldwide. • You will lead and execute complex 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.

Requirements

• 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, Clickhouse, & Redis) and data streaming technologies (we use Kafka & Flink). • Strongly preferred: In-depth experience building integrated Video products using open-source libraries like ffmpeg or libav, and ideally, direct contributions to them. You also know what PSNR, VMAF & SSIM are and how to move those. Solid knowledge of different video codecs, encoding, profiles, and compatibility, and a track record of debugging, fixing & optimizing encoding-related issues end to end. • Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.

Benefits

• Flexible PTO + 11 company holidays • Weekly no-meeting days + quarterly focus weeks • Healthy work-life balance encouraged • Competitive health, dental, and vision insurance (99% employee and 60% dependent premium coverage) • Fertility benefits • FSA and HSA 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 Mux customers • Lunch reimbursement program