Job Description

About Brightcove

Brightcove is a team of smart, passionate people who are revolutionizing the way organizations deliver video. We're hyped up about storytelling, and about helping people connect, share experiences, and view the world. Bottom line: video has the power to inform, inspire, challenge, amuse, and connect. And we're here for it.

As the industry leader in this space, we empower our customers to deliver top-notch video experiences to audiences on every screen in bold and innovative ways. When video is done right, it can have a powerful and lasting effect. Hearts open. Minds change. Creativity thrives. Since 2004, Brightcove has been supporting customers that are some of the largest media companies, enterprises, events, and non-profit organizations in the world. There are over 600 Brightcovers globally, each of us representing our unique talents and passions and we have built a culture that values individual empowerment, excellence and collaboration. This culture enables us to develop technologies once thought impossible, provide customer support without parallel or excuses, and leverage the expertise and resources of a global infrastructure. We take our video seriously, and we take great pride in doing it as one team.

Position Overview

Brightcove's engineering team is built on small, collaborative, self-running teams, where everyone has an equal voice and decisions are made analytically. Brightcove manages and distributes over a hundred million videos and adds hundreds of thousands to that catalog every day. That's no surprise given the explosive growth of online video and video consumption in general. To sustain such growth Brightcove is investing in improvements in our media delivery platform, aiming to make it even more efficient, scalable, and reliable. In this context, we're looking for an experienced engineer to join our Live team. So If you are bright, enthusiastic about development, creative, passionate, curious and eager to contribute we want to hear from you!

Job Responsibilities

• Maintain and build new features on top of our streaming ingestion, transcoding and distribution services

• Take ownership of a service from design to deployment
• Take into account scaling, cost and performance considerations when designing a service
• Stay abreast of developments and best practices within the tech industry and video
• Work with Customer Support and Account Management to respond to customer impacting issues
• Work alongside other teams to develop cross-project solutions and drive best practices across the organization

Skills/Qualifications

• 5+ years of software development experience on REST or backend services with at least 3+ in video streaming; Must have excellent coding, analytical and troubleshooting skills.
• Understanding of media processing workflows: ingest, mux / demux, transcoding, format conversions etc.
• Experience delivering and supporting high scale SaaS services leveraging public cloud services such as Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Knowledge of modern programming languages: Java / Go / NodeJS; Go Preferred;
• Must have Domain knowledge on Video workflows specifically around VOD and/or Live encoding, packaging and various adaptive delivery formats.
• Knowledge of DRM, SSAI will be an added advantage.
• Exposure to front end development would also be an added advantage
• Experience working in a Devops oriented team where engineers own the deployment stack
• Experience with Behaviour and Test-Driven Development
• Knowledge of containers and container-based deployment, preferably Kubernetes

Working at Brightcove

Why Brightcove? We've worked hard to create a company where talented, passionate people can thrive in a culture that values individual empowerment, excellence, and collaboration. Working at Brightcove gives you the chance to reshape how media is published and consumed worldwide while you develop your skills, grow your career, and have fun.

If you've gotten all the way to the bottom of this description, thank you for your interest in Brightcove! If this role sounds like something that is exciting to you please don't hesitate to apply, even if you don't meet all of our qualifications. We recognize that no candidate is perfect and Brightcove would love to have the chance to get to know you.

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

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