Staff Software Engineer, Media Foundations

Responsibilities

• Architect for Scale
• Lead the design and evolution of our global media processing and delivery infrastructure, processing, encoding, storing, and delivering video and images.
• Scalability & Performance: Translating product requirements into scalable architectures, optimizing video bottlenecks (e.g., latency, buffering, adaptive bitrate streaming), and designing for fault tolerance.
• Domain Expertise: Understanding the trade-offs between various codecs (e.g., AV1, VP9, H.264), media delivery strategies (CDNs, caching), and media quality metrics (QoE).
• Optimize Media Pipelines
• Build and optimize resilient backend services for video/audio ingestion, distributed transcoding, and CDN routing.
• Set the Standard: Establish engineering best practices, design the next generation of our media services, define strict SLOs/SLAs for our media operations.
• Mentorship & Leadership: Guide and empower multiple engineering teams.
• Translate complex product requirements into actionable technical roadmaps and drive alignment across the company.
• Leverage Modern Tooling: Thoughtfully utilize AI-assisted development tools to accelerate prototyping, system design, and coding, while applying rigorous judgment to validate and own the final outputs. Evangelize AI as a tool.

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