Mux · 1 month ago
Platform Engineer
San Francisco, California, United States
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid, Senior Level
$183K/yr - $210K/yrMux is a company focused on democratizing video for developers by solving the challenges they face in video encoding and streaming. As a Platform Engineer, you will enhance CI/CD systems and developer productivity, ensuring a smooth developer experience in a Kubernetes environment.
AnalyticsDeveloper APIsDeveloper ToolsVideoVideo Streaming
Responsibilities
Create paved paths from local dev to prod. Build and maintain a cohesive developer journey including local coding environments, build tooling, test workflows, artifact management, and deploy ergonomics so engineers can ship with confidence
Make builds faster, safer, and more observable. Improve performance, reliability, 'debuggability', and visibility across our CI/CD stack, ensuring teams understand what’s happening and can fix issues quickly
Partner deeply with product engineering teams. Pair with teams to understand friction points, co-design workflow improvements, and deliver tooling that fits real product needs not just theoretical ones
Raise the bar on engineering standards and release quality. Define and evolve best practices for building software, rollout strategies, release automation, and production readiness as Mux scales its delivery maturity
Shape the roadmap for developer productivity. Help prioritize and drive high-impact initiatives that keep Mux shipping quickly today and set us up for the next phase of growth
Qualification
Required
Fluent in modern CI/CD and the principles behind it
Built, operated, and improved real production ready pipelines
Strong software engineer who builds durable systems in a primarily Go ecosystem
Comfortable shipping and maintaining tools with solid engineering judgment
Think in end-to-end developer journeys
Build shared service abstractions and automation that connect local dev, builds, tests, and deploys into a clear, reliable path to ship on Kubernetes
Worked on Kubernetes at scale that matters to the business
Built and run production clusters that host critical-path workloads
Strong infrastructure and networking fundamentals
Solid grasp of TCP/UDP, HTTP, TLS, DNS, Linux, and how systems behave under load
Operate like a true partner to product teams
Internalize 'your problems are our problems,' build trust through empathy and follow-through
Preferred
Experience with our toolchain. Familiarity with a monorepo, Argo CD, Bazel, Terraform, Tilt, or similar tools helps you ramp fast and shape what's next
Experience in video or high-throughput systems. Background with video ingest/streaming/CDN-style data paths, Kafka-like event streaming, or distributed databases (CockroachDB, ClickHouse) is a plus in our world
Benefits
Flexible PTO + 11 company holidays
Weekly no-meeting days + quarterly focus weeks
Healthy work-life balance encouraged
Competitive health, dental, and vision insurance
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
Company
Mux
Mux is a video platform designed to make video streaming and analytics possible for every development team.
Founded in 2015
51-200 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2022 (3)
2021 (2)
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$173.92MKey Investors
CoatueAndreessen HorowitzEvolution Media
2021-05-01Series D· $105M
2020-07-23Series C· $37M
2019-08-14Series B· $20M
Leadership Team
Jon Dahl
Co-founder, CEO
Adam Brown
Co-Founder / CTO
Recent News
SV Angel
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