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Overview

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Mux is video for developers. Our mission is to democratize video by solving the hard problems developers face when building video: video encoding and streaming (Mux Video), video monitoring (Mux Data), and more. Video is a huge part of people's lives, and we want to help make it better.

About The Role

As a Senior Video Software Engineer at Mux, you will help build and scale powerful API-based functionalities for our core product, Mux Video. Our video engineering teams evolve our video transcoding and processing pipeline to deliver powerful features that serve a wide range of customers. We have worked on challenging problems ranging from just-in-time transcoding to per-title encoding — and we are just getting started! We are looking for a Video Software Engineer with strong engineering fundamentals that wants to join a fast-paced, creative, and inclusive Engineering team.

What You'll Do

• 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

Who You Are

• 5+ 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.
• You're a 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)

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.

U.S. 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

Mux is an Equal Opportunity employer committed to building a diverse company. We believe diversity makes us better, and we strive to be inclusive and equitable. That's why we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status or disability status.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

• Software Development