What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Software Engineer - Video position at Eluvio?
Eluvio is a highly-focused and ambitious team of systems/networking/application/video software engineers, data scientists, and security experts working together to implement the vision of the Content Fabric - a decentralized platform for video and commerce with the ambition of serving a large percentage of the world's Internet video and live events.
Our team is headquartered in Berkeley, CA, not far from the UC Berkeley campus.
Our work extends the state-of-the-art in video engineering, Internet networking, data science, machine learning, and blockchain-inspired security. We welcome highly skilled and creative individuals interested in full-time opportunities across these domains. We not only innovate, we also work closely with the digital content community to validate our solutions and are looking for team members who are both visionary and practical!
The Eluvio Content Fabric provides a new and innovative decentralized video processing framework with the ambition of serving a sizable percentage of the world's Internet video with just-in-time and personalized experiences. The Content Fabric foundation provides real-time content routing and just-in-time code execution on ingress and egress.
This role is part of the core software development team with focus on the video processing pipeline. This is a specialized area of software development and this position requires in depth experience with video packaging and encoding across all common on-demand and live formats and Internet protocols. Backend work is based on Go, Rust and C, including native and Web Assembly binaries and front-end largely JavaScript and Web Assembly.
The team is looking for both senior positions as well as recent graduates with a focus on video engineering. Our main offices are located in Berkeley, CA but, for the right candidate, the team is open to remote work as well.
Responsibilities- As part of the core software development team, understand and help shape the vision of just-in-time decentralized video with outstanding quality and real-time delivery
- Develop a variety of real-time video processing and distributed processing software modules
- Research and evaluate feasibility of new features and approaches
- Create and maintain a test and validation framework for quality, accuracy, load and performance
- Help maintain the audio/video pipeline software including routine bug fixes and development of tools for maintaining and troubleshooting a highly available network of nodes for live and on demand contents
- Work with infrastructure and content operations teams to ensure the product works perfectly in real deployment
- Experience and working knowledge of Go, Rust and C programming, including unit and integration tests
- Ability to develop and debug Go, Rust and C code
- Ability to debug third party software and experience with libav/ffmpeg/gstreamer codebases
- In depth knowledge of media packaging and encoding (MP4/FMP4/CMAF, DASH, HLS, RTP, MPEG-TS, SMPTE 2022, SMPTE 2110)
- Strong software development and architecture background
- Min BSc in CSEE or a related discipline and at least 5-7 years industry experience
Nice to Have
- Applied cryptography, including SECP256-based protocols, proxy re-encryption, threshold ciphers and protocols
- Familiarity and experience with H.264, H.265, AV-1 standards and generally codec standards
- Familiarity and experience with WebRTC
- Full-stack application experience operating and using video tools such as ffmpeg
- Understanding and familiarity with java-script based media players
- Market competitive salary
- Employee stock option program
- Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K
- Passionate team members, ambitious vision and a culture of execution, winning and bringing the best of one another