Staff Software Engineer - Video Platform

Accountabilities:

• Develop and maintain high-performance C++ services, frameworks, and tools supporting audio and video processing at scale.
• Design and implement distributed systems for multimedia ingestion, processing, storage, transcoding, and global delivery.
• Build new platform capabilities that enable high-quality video editing and playback experiences.
• Optimize multimedia processing pipelines for performance, reliability, scalability, video quality, and cost efficiency.
• Troubleshoot complex production, performance, and reliability issues and contribute to long-term infrastructure improvements.
• Drive engineering excellence through testing, code reviews, operational best practices, and continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and designers to translate product needs into scalable technical solutions.
• Contribute to the evolution of platform architecture and infrastructure supporting a large-scale multimedia ecosystem.

Requirements:

• Strong commercial experience building highly scalable, secure, and performant backend systems using C++.
• Deep understanding of computer science and software engineering fundamentals, including concurrency, multithreading, memory management, data structures, architecture, and design patterns.
• Proven experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems and scalable backend architectures.
• Hands-on experience working with cloud platforms and services in production environments.
• Strong debugging and diagnostic skills, with the ability to resolve complex performance, reliability, and production issues.
• Extensive experience with modern video codecs such as H.264/AVC, H.265/HEVC, VP9, or AV1.
• Deep experience with multimedia frameworks and libraries such as FFmpeg and/or GStreamer, including source-level debugging, architecture analysis, performance profiling, and custom patch development.
• Experience building large-scale video ingestion, storage, transcoding, processing, and delivery systems.
• Strong understanding of multimedia containers and formats such as MP4 and WebM.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across engineering, product, and design functions.
• Genuine interest in audio and video technologies and enthusiasm for solving multimedia processing challenges at massive scale.
• Contributions to FFmpeg, GStreamer, or other open-source multimedia projects are valued.
• Experience with adaptive bitrate streaming technologies such as DASH, HLS, or CMAF is a plus.
• Experience optimizing encoding pipelines for video quality, storage efficiency, and delivery performance is a plus.
• Experience working with Java-based services in large-scale distributed environments is an advantage.

Benefits:

• Equity package designed to allow employees to share in the organization's success.
• Inclusive parental leave policy supporting parents and carers.
• Annual Vibe & Thrive allowance supporting wellbeing, social connection, and office setup needs.
• Flexible leave options to support personal needs, recharge time, and community involvement.
• Opportunity to work on large-scale multimedia infrastructure serving millions of users globally.
• Collaborative environment with cross-functional engineering, product, and design teams.
• Opportunity to contribute to technically complex video platform initiatives involving performance, scalability, reliability, and multimedia technologies.