Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Mux as a Senior Software Engineer on the Mux Data team and play a key role in building the next generation of data products. You will lead and execute complex projects across our data stack and infrastructure, which collects and aggregates over a trillion requests each month. You will also help shape the technical direction of our data platform and product offerings. Work cross-functionally with product, customer success, and other engineering teams. Contribute to the full development cycle, from technical design to on-call support. Take accountability for planning and delivering projects, both as a hands-on contributor and architect.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in backend or data engineering using Golang 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 data systems in a service-oriented architecture, with a solid understanding of best practices for fault tolerance, latency, and observability
• A track record of writing high-quality, maintainable code across multiple services and team boundaries
• Solid operational experience with data streaming technologies (e.g., Kafka), Kubernetes, monitoring tools (e.g., Grafana & Prometheus), and databases (e.g. Clickhouse, Redis)
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills

Responsibilities

• Work cross-functionally with product, customer success, and other engineering teams to execute on product and business strategy, developing features that help customers optimize video experiences
• Develop features as part of a full stack product team. Contribute to the full development cycle: technical design, development, testing, experimentation, analysis, launch, and on-call. You’ll review code and design docs, provide feedback on product specs, and take ownership of your code in production
• Take accountability for planning and delivering projects, both as a hands-on contributor and architect, as well as a facilitator
• Drive ideas and contribute to your team's roadmap, collaborating closely with cross-functional stakeholders
• Build and promote best practices within your team for availability, reliability, and production readiness

Preferred Qualifications

• In-depth experience building and scaling data streaming applications
• Experience with video playback telemetry and performance metrics (e.g., rebuffer rates, latency, etc.) is a plus
• Experience with Elixir, React/Typescript a plus

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