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Staff Software Development Engineer

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18 hours ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+

Responsibilities

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

Requirements

  • 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 3+ years with production ML systems or AI-powered features.
  • Expert proficiency in Python or C++ with strong software engineering fundamentals.
  • Hands-on experience building and deploying end-to-end ML pipelines in production.
  • Experience with video processing technologies, including codecs, containers, and HLS or DASH streaming protocols.
  • Experience with large-scale distributed systems, Spark or Hadoop, and AWS, GCP, or Azure cloud infrastructure.
  • Strong knowledge of software architecture, system design, and scalable maintainable systems.
  • Proficiency with data engineering tools such as Apache Spark, Kafka, or Airflow, or equivalent technologies.
  • Understanding of ML fundamentals including model evaluation, feature engineering, and ML systems debugging.
  • Experience processing video or image data at scale.
  • Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science or a related field, or a BE/B.Tech in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering; MS or PhD is a plus.
  • Strong problem-solving, ownership, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Benefits

  • Full-time onsite position in Bangalore.
  • Equal opportunity workplace committed to diversity and an environment free from legally protected discrimination.
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