Backend Engineer - Platform Experience

Summary

Join Mux as a Backend Software Engineer and build and manage scalable, highly available applications and services supporting product feature development and growing traffic. You will work on the Platform Experience team, ensuring a consistent and effective platform experience for customers. Responsibilities include developing user-facing features in Elixir and Go, building and scaling the billing and usage platform, working on identity and account management, and developing distributed notifications. The ideal candidate has at least 4 years of experience in production distributed systems and backend engineering, solid engineering fundamentals, and experience with cloud platforms and container orchestration. Elixir experience is a plus, but other languages are acceptable. The starting base pay is between $160K-$190K.

Requirements

• Minimum of 4 years of experience in production distributed systems & backend engineering
• You’re a strong engineer comfortable working across multiple platforms and environments
• Solid engineering fundamentals (CS degree a plus)
• Track record of working on hard problems including job scheduling, concurrency, and scaling
• Experience deploying complex applications on cloud platforms using a container orchestration platform, such as Kubernetes

Responsibilities

• Work with your team to collaborate and execute on product goals and technical roadmap
• Develop user-facing, product-focused features in our Elixir and Go backend services
• Building and scaling our billing and usage platform that supports all Mux products
• Working on identity and account management product features
• Working on distributed notifications such as application webhooks and alerting features

Preferred Qualifications

• Elixir experience is a big plus, but Go, Python, Ruby, Node, or other general-purpose programming languages are also great
• Video experience is a plus but not required

Benefits

• Flexible PTO + 11 company holidays
• Weekly no-meeting days + quarterly focus weeks
• Healthy work-life balance encouraged
• Competitive health, dental, and vision insurance (100% employee and 65% dependent premium coverage)
• Fully funded fertility benefits
• HSA available, compatible with high deductible plan only ($100 per single employee/month & $200 per family/month employer contribution)
• FSA 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