Video Platform Engineer 🔥
- Typescript, Javascript (Node.JS and Browser), and C
- Many AWS products
- Kubernetes, Docker, Packer, and Terraform
- Headless Chrome
- ffmpeg - including libavformat/libavcodec
- WebRTC, RTMP, HLS, CMAF, and DASH
- The Video Platform Engineer is a hands-on individual contributor technical role.
- Based on interest and experience, you are expected to contribute directly to at least one of three major problem sets:
- live media multiplexing/capture
- video streaming, live and on-demand
- real-time communications
- Develop and maintain a reliable, fault-tolerant, and efficient platform for delivering live-streamed and real-time video to hundreds of thousands of customers across the globe.
- Define test strategy to expand automated coverage of all new development.
- Write impeccable documentation about the features, architecture, and support services that you ship.
- Candidates with more experience are expected to provide mentorship to the team, and act as technical advisors as we build and grow our architecture.
- Experience with shipping and maintaining code in a production environment.
- Curiosity about new and unfamiliar technical problem sets.
- Optimism for the future.
- Meticulous writing, note-taking, and documentation habits.
- Ability to define and implement performance metrics appropriate for the workloads we build.
- Familiarity and comfort operating from the context of a Linux shell.
- Experience with one or more of the following areas of interest is preferred:
- Video delivery, whether live-streamed, video-on-demand, or real-time.
- Real-time analytics and monitoring of telemetric (time-series) data streams.
- Test automation for media solutions.
Benefits
- Competitive salary commensurate with experience and qualifications
- This is a fully remote position, and you may work from where you please. This role requires at least 5 hours of availability during working hours in the US Eastern Time Zone (GMT-5), Monday to Friday.
- Laptop assigned, Mac or Windows
- $800 USD stipend reimbursement for home office set up