4 months ago
Bengaluru, IndiaSenior
Responsibilities
- Design and build scalable, fault-tolerant backend services for video ingest, transcoding job orchestration, ABR packaging, and content delivery.
- Own complex VoD backend features end to end, including design, implementation, deployment, monitoring, and operational handoff.
- Write high-quality, tested, maintainable code and contribute to code reviews and engineering best practices.
- Contribute to VoD platform architecture by evaluating throughput, latency, cost, and reliability trade-offs.
- Integrate video pipeline components with CMS, CDN origin, DRM/entitlement systems, and metadata APIs.
- Participate in on-call rotations, lead incident response, perform root cause analysis, and improve production reliability.
- Optimize transcoding profiles and pipeline parallelism for cost efficiency, throughput, and time-to-publish.
- Collaborate with product managers, content operations, and engineering teams to deliver technical solutions.
- Mentor junior engineers through code reviews, design discussions, and knowledge-sharing sessions.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional backend software engineering experience building and operating distributed systems in production.
- Proficiency in Go, Python, or Java with solid system design foundations.
- Experience with distributed systems, event-driven architectures, message queues, workflow orchestration, and idempotency patterns.
- Experience with storage systems, caching strategies, and database query performance tuning.
- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms, preferably AWS, including compute, object storage, managed queues, and serverless or containerized workloads.
- Familiarity with video processing pipelines, transcoding concepts, H.264, H.265, MP4, fMP4, HLS, and MPEG-DASH is strongly preferred.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, containerization, infrastructure-as-code, and production observability tooling.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- Strong communication, collaboration, mentorship, and knowledge-sharing skills.
Benefits
- Full-time, onsite position in Bangalore.
- Opportunity to work on large-scale video streaming infrastructure serving hundreds of millions of viewers.
- Equal opportunity workplace committed to diversity and inclusion.
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