Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Wistia as a Senior Software Engineer and contribute to the development of our core back-end media product. You will work with a collaborative team, utilizing technologies like Go, Ruby, and Kubernetes, to enhance the customer experience for managing and analyzing video and audio. This role requires strong back-end development skills, collaboration, and communication. You will balance technical considerations with product and business needs, focusing on delivering high-impact features. Wistia offers a competitive compensation package, comprehensive benefits, and a remote-first culture.

Requirements

• Have 8+ years' experience as a product or platform engineer
• Be a collaborator
• Have strong communication skills
• Be empathetic and emotionally intelligent
• Write clean and understandable code
• Know your fundamentals
• Be comfortable thinking in trade-offs
• Value simplicity

Responsibilities

• Work comfortably in back-end micro-service development generally related to ingesting, encoding, and delivering video, image, and audio files
• Balance technical considerations with product and business thinking
• Ship features and deliver value to customers under the constraints of a profitable business where we center the customer and take ownership as company values
• Work with engineers across teams on more complex features, for mentoring and knowledge-sharing, to support and care for the Wistia systems, and sometimes just for fun!

Preferred Qualifications

• Be more focused on the back-end and/or service-oriented architecture with an eye for high impact optimizations
• Have experience with video-based infrastructure and open source projects in the space (ffmpeg, x264, webm)
• Have worked with CDNs to deliver assets to customers globally
• Have built integrations with cloud services (AWS, GCP, etc) and APIs in a scalable manner that allow for others on the team to contribute effectively
• Have experience with distributed databases that has given you a real understanding of the CAP theorem in practice (and where they can fall apart)

Benefits

• A competitive compensation package that includes internal equity stock options
• 401k with 3% company contribution, regardless of whether you contribute
• Fully paid healthcare, dental, and vision insurance (family plans included)
• Pre-Tax FSA and Dependent Care Account
• Fitness reimbursement
• Flexible working hours – work at the times when you operate best, or set aside time for child and/or elderly care responsibilities during traditional “office hours”
• 16 weeks paid parental leave for all new and expecting parents
• Flex PTO (pretty common for people to take 4+ weeks off throughout the year)
• Remote-first culture (work from anywhere in the U.S.)
• Annual professional development stipend (courses, conferences, and more)
• New hire bonus to enhance your home office set up
• Pet insurance discount