Summary
Join a tight-knit team at Mux as a Software Engineer to play a key role in building next-generation Video products that power delightful user experiences for millions worldwide.
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience in production Backend & Video Engineering using Golang, C, C++, 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 video systems in a service-oriented architecture, including best practices for fault tolerance, latency, and observability
- A track record of writing high-quality, maintainable code across multiple services & team boundaries
- Solid operational experience with Kubernetes, monitoring tools (we use Grafana & Prometheus), databases (we use CockroachDB, Clickhouse, & Redis) and data streaming technologies (we use Kafka)
Responsibilities
- Work cross-functionally with product, customer success, and other engineering teams to execute on product and business strategy and build cutting-edge Video products that our customers will love
- Contribute to the full development cycle: technical design, development, test, experimentation, analysis, launch & on-call. You’ll review code and design docs, give feedback on product specs, and run your code
- Take accountability for the planning and delivery of projects, both as a hands-on contributor and architect and as a facilitator
- Bring ideas and directly influence your team's roadmap, collaborating closely with cross-functional stakeholders, especially regarding Video features and functionality
- Build & promote best practices in your team for availability, reliability, and production readiness
Preferred Qualifications
- In-depth experience building integrated Video products using open-source libraries like ffmpeg or libav, and ideally, direct contributions to them. You also know what PSNR, VMAF & SSIM are and how to move those
- Solid knowledge of different video codecs, encoding, profiles, and compatibility, and a track record of debugging, fixing & optimizing encoding-related issues end to end
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
