About Us

Brightcove is a pioneering force in the world of online video. Our cloud platform enables Brightcove customers to upload videos, process them and prepare them for delivery on multiple channels.

The Brightcove engineering culture is tailored to software professionals who enjoy solving challenging product development problems. The team you'll be joining is a small, self-organized Agile group. We use a lightweight development process that balances craftsmanship with execution. We strive to build engaging products with features that will delight our customers.

Our team takes pride in achieving high uptimes and quality-of-service with low operational overhead. Team members double as experts in operating the systems that they build. Everyone is encouraged to contribute to meeting our operational goals through robust, scalable designs, software quality, customer-facing service metrics, and DevOps automation.

We’re looking for a developer to help us transform the Video Cloud content management system into a scalable, cloud-based platform with rich, developer-friendly APIs. The Brightcove CMS holds the central catalog of information for Brightcove’s flagship Video Cloud product. This CMS is a high-performance metadata management repository with integrated search capabilities. You’ll be on a team responsible for designing, developing, and operating a fault-tolerant, low-latency system that currently handles over 5M updates and nearly 200M reads each day, with peak rates of around 5k writes and 10k reads per second. Our throughput continues to grow, having nearly doubled year-over-year for the past few years.

We look for people we can learn from; people who are creative, passionate, and curious; and people who know how to get things done.

Responsibilities

• Develop and deploy scalable backend services for the Video Cloud content management system
• Provide operational support for the platforms.
• Work in an agile environment with a team of engineers to create new products and services and streamline/enhance existing solutions and workflows.
• Develop clean, high quality code even when working on extremely hard problems.

Qualifications

• You have 5+ years of experience building large applications
• You are comfortable with Object Oriented and Functional programming languages (We mostly use JVM languages and toolkits, with an emphasis on Java/Groovy)
• You understand the basics of scalable SaaS systems and have experience developing and deploying highly scalable software
• You understand the principles of software craftsmanship. You unit test everything
• You’re familiar with different types of data stores for handling large volumes of data with high levels of traffic.
• You are familiar with Linux, basic SaaS security, AWS cloud services (S3, SQS, EC2 etc.), REST, and API design.