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.