[Hiring] Software Engineer - Video Ingest & Storage @Zattoo

Role Description

Become a part of the core team that maintains, extends and improves our video backend based on state of the art technology. Collaborate with a highly skilled and passionate team of multi-national engineers to build and operate our video services.

The Video Ingest & Storage Team

Our team develops the software which provides the origin content for our carrier-grade streaming platform, covering the full processing chain including content ingest, transcoding and storage. We work closely with the Streaming Backend team - who develops our CDN services, and with the Ads Backend team - whose engineers focus on our solutions for server-side dynamic ad insertion.

What You’ll Do

• Improve our encoding pipeline for live and on-demand content
• Integrate seamless use of GPU or cloud resources in our infrastructure
• Address challenges of large-scale storage for VOD and nPVR content
• Improve fault tolerance of our platform
• Develop high-quality, clean and maintainable code
• Collaborate with stakeholders and engineers across the company

Qualifications

• Expert knowledge in C/C++ programming
• Excellent understanding of operating system / Linux fundamentals
• Expertise and ideas to build highly concurrent and distributed systems
• Experience diagnosing and troubleshooting complex systems using test tools, network management systems and error reporting systems
• Desire and abilities to learn new technologies and programming languages
• Comfortable working with remote colleagues and multidisciplinary teams
• Experience in development and support of production systems with 24x7 operations

Requirements

• Bonus: knowledge in Golang programming
• Bonus: Experience with distributed data stores such as Scylla or ClickHouse

Benefits

• Strong market competitive salary
• 30 days vacation plus public holidays
• Trust based flexible working hours and the option for remote work worldwide for up to 8 weeks per year
• Free access to the best streaming experience on the market
• Your own development budget, German classes and Zattoo all-company hack days
• A fun, engaged, and diverse team made up of 47 nationalities
• Health checks, mental wellbeing support, team sports and more!
• We are carbon neutral, an active employee Green team, discounted BVG tickets and free bike rentals
• A calendar of events with fireside chats, lunches, in-house bar, BBQ’s, monthly socials, summer party and an annual off-site event