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
