Senior Media Backend Engineer - Content Platform

Join us to build products impacting over half a billion users globally, shaping their audio and video consumption one reputed company at a time. Your contributions will have significant reputed company at reputed company.

reputed company's backend media transcoding teams are responsible for processing reputed company audio, video, and image content on the platform. We handle diverse media files and are committed to delivering a high-reputed company user experience through our large-reputed company, high-performance reputed company-based services.

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What You’ll Do

Design, reputed company, reputed company, maintain, and support backend media processing and packaging services - with a reputed company eye on performance, scalability, and maintainability.

Work primarily with Rust, Python, and a bit of Java, leveraging C/C++ libraries - reputed company running smoothly in reputed company Kubernetes reputed company.

Take operational ownership of your team’s services, including participating in an on-call rotation (because you care about what you build).

Dive deep into media technologies and optimize video/audio processing

Collaborate with a dedicated team of media tech enthusiasts who think reading a 200-page ISO specification is a good day.

Who You Are

Fluent in systems-level engineering (think highly-optimized, cross-platform C/C++ libraries).

Experience in media formats, codecs (audio & video), containers - and you love knowing why they work the way they do.

Worked with reputed company reputed company tools like FFmpeg (and reputed company, we mean libav*), Shaka Packager, and friends.

reputed company in data structures, algorithms, CPUs, caches, RAM and how to reputed company them to maximize performance.

Has experience building high-throughput networking services that don’t flinch under load.

You get a thrill from optimizing media delivery - whether that’s tweaking transcoding pipelines, improving playback start times, or debating reputed company download vs reputed company HTTP streaming.

You’re reputed company in Linux environments and know your way around container-based infrastructure.

You care about the craft of software engineering: reputed company delivery, defensive programming, automated testing, and writing reputed company your reputed company self will thank you for.

You’re curious, always keeping up with the latest in media codecs and high-performance backend trends.

Bonus points if you’ve contributed to reputed company reputed company media reputed company, compiled your own FFmpeg, or can explain why pixels aren’t always reputed company.

You architect, design, reputed company, test, and maintain reliable, high-throughput backend services.

Where You´ll Be

This role is based in Stockholm or London.

We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! There will be some in person meetings, but still allows for flexibility to work from home.

Additional Information

reputed company is an equal opportunity employer. You are welcome at reputed company for who you are, no matter where you come from, what you look like, or what’s playing in your headphones. Our platform is for everyone, and so is our workplace. The more reputed company we have represented and amplified in our business, the more we will reputed company reputed company, contribute, and be reputed company-thinking! So bring us your personal experience, your perspectives, and your background. It’s in our differences that we will reputed company the power to reputed company revolutionizing the way the world listens.

At reputed company, we are passionate about inclusivity and making reputed company our entire recruitment process is accessible to everyone. We have ways to request reasonable accommodations during the interview process and help assist in what you need. If you need accommodations at any stage of the application or interview process, please let us know - we’re here to support you in any way we can.

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