Seeking a Senior Software Developer for developing high-performance distributed systems for media workflows, including video transcoding and content delivery.
About the Role:
We are looking for a Senior Software Developer with a strong background in distributed systems and a passion for media technology. In this role, you will help architect and build the core services that power our high-volume media workflows, from video transcoding and asset management to real-time content delivery and analytics. You will be part of a team developing scalable backend systems that support millions of users consuming content across web, mobile, OTT, and live-streaming platforms.
This is an opportunity to work on challenging problems at the intersection of distributed computing and real-time media.
Requirements
Key Responsibilities:
- Design and implement high-throughput, fault-tolerant distributed services using C++, C# and .NET Core.
- Develop scalable distributed systems for media asset ingestion, encoding pipelines, metadata management, and/or playout.
- Work with real-time messaging and streaming technologies (e.g., WebSockets and WebRTC) to enable low-latency experiences.
- Drive performance optimization and service/process resilience.
- Contribute to the full SDLC - from technical planning and architecture to testing and production support.
Required Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience developing high-performance software using C++
- 5+ years of experience developing distributed software solutions in a Linux environment
- Strong understanding of distributed systems design and patterns. Microservices experience applicable in many ways.
- Experience working with high-performance multi-threaded, high-volume data pipelines or real-time media systems.
- Experience with REST APIs, gRPC, or GraphQL.
- Strong knowledge of asynchronous programming, multithreading, and concurrency.
- Experience with building fault-tolerance, distributed systems error handling and high-quality context rich logging for real-time debugging.
- Experience working with SQL databases (e.g., SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL).
- Comfortable in fast-paced, agile development environments.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with software development in a Windows environment using C# and .NET Core
- Experience with media technologies: video/audio codecs, transcoding, HLS/DASH, DRM, MAM/DAM systems.
- Passion for high-performance systems and quality-driven development.
Top Skills
.Net Core
C#
C++
GraphQL
Grpc
Linux
MySQL
Postgres
Rest Apis
SQL Server
Webrtc
Websockets
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