Scale matters. When it comes to our video platform, scale means ingesting tens of thousands of hours of video a day, and serving thousands of videos every second.

JW Player is looking for a Software Engineer to join our rapidly growing Media Processing team at our New York City headquarters. Responsible for our Media Transcoding and Live Streaming systems, the right candidate will relish the opportunity to build highly scalable, performance oriented systems around Media workflows.

This role will play a pivotal part in designing the processes and building the APIs, infrastructure, pipelines, testing, monitoring, and all other tooling necessary to consistently ship code of the highest possible caliber.

In this role, you will:

• Contribute to the architecture of a production-scale service layer
• Build features which serve customer-driven product goals
• Code as part of a highly technical team in a fast paced, agile environment
• Prototype new ideas and explore new solutions to the growing list of problems the platform solves

Requirements:  

• 3+ years of software development and engineering
• A degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field; or experience equivalent
• Proven track record of ownership of maintainable, stable and scalable software
• Experience with micro-services architecture: designing, creating, deploying, testing and monitoring
• Experience doing test-driven development (TDD) and/or behavior-driven development (BDD)
• Strong database design and RDBMS concepts, experience doing domain-driven design
• Strong understanding of source control management systems
• Strong Unix/Linux skills

Bonus Points: 

• Contributed to existing open-source projects as well as your own
• Experience building scalable systems with cloud infrastructures like AWS or Google Cloud Platform
• Experience with event-driven or message-driven architecture
• Knowledge of video encoding, ad networks, content management platforms, and/or streaming protocols
• Experience with web video (HTML5 and/or Flash)
• Experience with Docker and/or Linux Containers

About JW Player

JW Player pioneered video on the web over a decade ago and continues to innovate as the world’s largest network-independent platform for video delivery and intelligence. Media companies including Fox, VICE, Business Insider, and Univision, in addition to hundreds of thousands of creators of all types and sizes, rely on JW Player to deliver and monetize their content across all devices. JW Player’s massive global footprint of over 2 billion unique devices creates a powerful data graph of unique consumer insights and generates billions of incremental video views. The company is headquartered in New York, with offices in London and Eindhoven, and was named to Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500™ in 2017. For more information, visit http://www.jwplayer.com.

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.