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Mux · 2 days ago

Video Software Engineer

San Francisco, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Mid Level

$195K/yr - $240K/yr

4+ years exp

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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.

Qualification

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GolangCC++BackendVideo EngineeringDistributed systemsService-oriented architectureFault toleranceLatencyObservabilityKubernetesGrafanaPrometheusCockroachDBClickhouseRedisKafkaCommunicationCollaborationProblem-solvingVideo ProductsOpen-source LibrariesFFmpegLibavPSNRVMAFSSIMVideo CodecsEncodingDebugging

Required

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).

Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.

Preferred

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.

If you don't have all of these requirements but think your experience could be a great fit, that's okay! Please apply and we can talk about what's most needed in the role.

Benefits

Flexible PTO + 11 company holidays

Weekly no-meeting days + quarterly focus weeks

Healthy work-life balance encouraged

Competitive health, dental, and vision insurance (99% employee and 60% dependent premium coverage)

Fertility benefits

FSA and HSA 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

San Francisco, California, USA

51-200 employees

https://mux.com

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