Gather is hiring a
Backend Engineer in Worldwide

Summary

The job is for a Staff Software Engineer in the Video team at Gather, a company that builds virtual offices for remote work. The role involves designing and implementing integral parts of the video platform to deliver high-quality video frames and optimize video servers. The position offers competitive compensation, benefits, and equity, and allows remote work.

Requirements

• Experience working on a large-scale group video calling platform (e.g. Zoom or Google Meet)
• Experience working with WebRTC directly

Responsibilities

• Deliver the tastiest, most appealing video frames our users’ internet connections can endure
• Optimize our video servers until they laugh with glee at the notion of having hundreds of simultaneous meeting participants
• Re-architecting our video system, to implement SFU-cascading and replace our current model of multiple simultaneous SFU connections with single connections with backhaul of video between SFU instances
• Degrade quality with grace for bandwidth or CPU-constrained devices, and handle spurious spikes in latency/congestion with a shout of ‘Not today, internet weather!’
• Build tools that guide us to our goal of an exceptionally reliable meeting platform
• Instrument our service until it looks like a time-traveling Delorean you saw in those movies
• Build automated tests that ensure the reliability and performance of our video infrastructure as we make it more awesome

Benefits

• Work remotely out of a state-of-the-art virtual office!
• Competitive compensation, benefits, and meaningful equity
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and their dependents
• 401k and matching program
• Generous PTO policy and mental health days to recharge
• Meal stipend twice a week to keep you nourished
• Remote work, education, and health & wellness stipend
• Support for family planning & gender-affirmation
• The opportunity to join a passionate team in building something that actually makes peoples' lives better, every single day