Responsibilities
- Participate in design discussions with engineering leadership, product owners, and solution architects.
- Take features from requirements and scoping through launch on the cloud platform.
- Design and document requirements, features, and APIs.
- Develop maintainable backend software with appropriate automated tests and safe deployment practices.
- Collaborate with UI, QA, and SRE teams on integration testing, observability, incident response, troubleshooting, and reliability.
- Apply practical testing strategies and involve QA for integration and end-to-end testing.
- Participate in peer reviews, technical discussions, and shared engineering standards.
- Continuously improve engineering skills and mentor junior engineers.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience building and operating production backend or distributed systems.
- Python experience preferred; strong candidates with Java, Go, or similar backend languages are considered.
- Hands-on experience with serverless and compute services from a major cloud provider.
- Fluency with infrastructure as code and ownership of deployments end to end.
- Understanding of event-driven architecture, distributed-systems failure modes, and idempotent or retry-safe design.
- Strong testing discipline and experience writing clean, maintainable, well-covered code.
- Experience with on-call operations, observability or monitoring, and incident response.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills across multiple repositories and services.
- Video, streaming, media, HLS, SRT, RTMP, transcoding, or live-encoder experience is useful but not required.
- Experience with GPU-accelerated encoding, media-server or encoder API integration, multi-tenant SaaS, or multi-region deployments is useful.
- Experience with OpenTelemetry, blue-green or canary releases, AMI or image build tooling, EC2 fleet lifecycle management, Python packaging, schema libraries, and static-analysis tooling is useful.
Benefits
- Work is remote or location-flexible under the stated “Work is a thing you do, not a place you go” approach; the role is located in Burlington, Ontario and follows Monday-Friday, 40-hour scheduling.
- Opportunities for career progression, mentoring, and third-party education.
- Relaxed, open, welcoming cross-functional work environment with regular social events and sports teams.
- Accommodations are available throughout the recruitment process for applicants with disabilities.
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About Evertz
Evertz Microsystems (TSX:ET) is a leading global manufacturer of broadcast equipment and solutions that deliver content to television sets, on-demand services, WebTV, IPTV, and mobile devices (like phones and tablets). Evertz has expertise in delivering complete end-to-end broadcast solutions for all aspects of broadcast production including content creation, content distribution and content delivery. Considered as an innovator by their customers, Evertz delivers cutting edge solutions that are unmatched in the industry in both hardware and software. Evertz delivers products and solutions that can be found in major broadcast facilities on every continent. Evertz’ customer base also includes telecommunications, satellite, cable TV, IPTV providers, and professional audio-visual, government, military, enterprise, and new media sectors. With over 2,000 employees, that include hardware and software engineers, Evertz is one of the leaders in the broadcast industry. Evertz has a global presence with offices located in: Canada, United States, United Kingdom, Germany, United Arab Emirates, India, Hong Kong, China,, and Australia. Evertz was named one of Canada’s 50 Best Managed Companies, which recognizes excellence in Canadian-owned and Canadian-managed companies. Canada’s 50 Best Managed Companies identifies Canadian corporate success through companies focused on their core vision, creating stakeholder value and excelling in the global economy.