Remote Video Software Engineer (Mid - Staff Level)

Summary

Join a tight-knit team at Mux as a Video Software Engineer to help build and scale powerful API-based functionalities for Mux Video. As a key member of the engineering team, you will collaborate on technical roadmaps, develop and evolve transcoding platforms, and work on exciting aspects of encoding video at a large scale.

Requirements

• Mid to staff level engineers (3+ years of experience)
• Strong engineer comfortable working across multiple platforms and environments
• Solid engineering fundamentals (CS degree a plus). Strong knowledge of a general purpose programming language (we primarily use Golang, but our video encoding stack has a lot of C++ and C)
• Troubleshooting large scale, highly available distributed systems
• Designing and building applications with reliability and scale in mind: SRE principles, observability, high-availability
• Prior experience of working in a subset of these technologies (you don’t need to have all of them!): Go, C, Modern C++, ffmpeg/libav and/or other open source media libraries, HTTP Streaming formats: HLS and DASH, Packaged media formats (e.g. fMP4, Transport Streams)

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with your team on a technical roadmap and product goals
• Build the foundations for future media products and features
• Help to develop and evolve our transcoding platform to support new capabilities and video quality concerns
• Work on exciting aspects of encoding a wide variety of video at a large scale (millions of videos every month)
• Design, maintain, and build services and video processing tooling and workflows to enable new features that meet performance requirements
• Work with platform and video delivery teams to ensure our features continue to meet core reliability and performance SLIs as we grow and as our product evolves

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