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Senior Software Development Engineer

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13 hours ago
Bengaluru, IndiaMid Level / Senior

Responsibilities

  • Own end-to-end development of video insights use cases from requirements analysis through production deployment.
  • Design and implement pipelines integrating video AI models with core 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 use cases and success metrics.
  • Build evaluation frameworks and dashboards tracking 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++ and strong software engineering 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 including HLS and DASH.
  • Experience with large-scale distributed systems, big data platforms such as Spark and Hadoop, and cloud infrastructure including AWS, GCP, or Azure.
  • Strong foundation in software architecture, system design, and scalable maintainable systems.
  • 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.
  • Strong problem-solving, ownership, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
  • Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science or a related field and 4–6 years of backend development experience.

Benefits

  • Full-time, onsite position in Bangalore.
  • Opportunity to build and own video intelligence features at scale for a global media and entertainment company.
  • Mentoring and knowledge-sharing involvement across engineering teams.
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