Principal Software Engineer

| Greater NYC Area
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If you've watched video on the web, you already know us. We're the New York-based startup that brought online video to more people in the world than anyone else. Our flagship product, JW Player, is live on more than 2 million sites and streams billions of videos each month, across all devices — phones, tablets and desktops.

Our cloud-hosted micro-service architecture processes more than 4 billion data points per day using open source systems like Trident, Storm, Hive, Hadoop, and Kafka. We are serious about big data.

To help us scale our business, we are looking for Principal Engineers who possess a hunger to learn, innovate, and deliver breakthrough solutions. You will work with data scientists and software engineers from the likes of IBM, Google, and Amazon. You will have direct access to a senior management team eager to win in our space.

For this coveted role, you will be expected to be a “play maker”, mentor, and thought leader within a rapidly growing engineering team. You will be able to see around corners in the areas of distributed systems, micro-services, performance, container-ization (i.e. Docker), and storage.

Qualifications

  • Bachelors in Science in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Physics, or equivalent experience
  • 10+ years of experience delivering massive consumer scale software
  • Hands on real-world experience building software that runs on public cloud stacks (Amazon Web Services, Azure, Google Cloud)
  • Very proficient in Java, Scala, Go, or C++
  • Strong in Python, Ruby, JavaScript, or similar scripting language(s)
  • Experience delivering large-scale solutions using NoSQL data stores and their associated tools (e.g. Storm/Trident, Hadoop, Mahout)
  • Experience working within a team of 4-7 people while directly collaborating with other engineering teams, product management, and company executives
  • Ability to breakdown large ambiguous problems into discrete components that can be delivered by you or other software engineers
  • Experience with best practices around testing automation and continuous integration pipelines (Jenkins, Hudson, Chef, Puppet)

Desired Qualifications and Attributes

  • Masters or PhD in Computer Science or equivalent
  • Inventor of software innovation(s)
  • Experience working on or contributing to widely used open source projects
  • Large Github and/or Stack Overflow footprint
  • Known speaker at tech conferences
  • Highly collaborative personality with the ability to work with anybody within the company
  • Makes data-driven decisions
  • Doggedly persistent
  • Does not let perfect become the enemy of good
  • Displays humility amongst peers, subordinates, and senior management
  • Understands how to get things done (i.e. release software)

Company Description

JW Player is a global market leader and well-known brand in online video, powering video playback for over a billion unique users across millions of websites every month. We are a known driver of innovation in the online video space, allowing you to explore new technologies such as Chromecast, HLS/DASH, HTML5/CSS3 and cross-platform frameworks. Our flagship product, the JW Player, is deployed on over 2 million websites and streams billions of videos each month. Started in 2008 as the world’s first open source video player, today the company’s customers span the globe across 193 countries and range from Fortune 500 companies to individual bloggers. We’re busy innovating for the future by actively hiring smart, motivated, and innovation-driven people! Come help us imagine and define what comes next! jwplayer.com/careers

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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Location

JW Player is located two blocks behind Bryant Park. Close to the Bryant Park and Times Square subway stations.

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