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Senior Software Development Engineer

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18 hours ago
Bengaluru, IndiaMid Level / Senior

Responsibilities

  • Own video insights use cases from requirements analysis through production deployment.
  • Design and implement pipelines integrating video AI models with platform services and data infrastructure.
  • Build scalable distributed systems for processing large volumes of video content on cloud platforms.
  • Collaborate with research scientists, data engineers, and product managers on specifications and success metrics.
  • Build evaluation frameworks and dashboards for feature performance, user satisfaction, and business impact.
  • Optimize video processing workflows for performance, cost, latency, and quality.
  • Mentor junior engineers and contribute to documentation and technical knowledge sharing.
  • Monitor, profile, and iteratively optimize deployed features.

Requirements

  • Expert-level proficiency in at least one of Python, Java, or C++.
  • Strong software engineering, architecture, system design, and scalable systems development fundamentals.
  • Hands-on experience building and deploying end-to-end machine learning pipelines in production.
  • Understanding of video processing technologies, codecs, containers, and streaming protocols such as HLS and DASH.
  • Experience with large-scale distributed systems, big data platforms, and cloud infrastructure.
  • Proficiency with data engineering tools and frameworks such as Apache Spark, Kafka, or Airflow.
  • Understanding of machine learning fundamentals, including model evaluation, feature engineering, and debugging ML systems.
  • Experience processing video or image data at scale.
  • Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or a related field.
  • 4–6 years of backend development experience.
  • Strong problem-solving, ownership, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Benefits

  • Full-time, onsite work in Bangalore.
  • Opportunity to build and own video intelligence features at scale.
  • Mentoring and knowledge-sharing responsibilities within the engineering team.
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