Senior Platform Engineer, Mux
$210-240k
+ Equity
Online video infrastructure
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Online video infrastructure
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$210-240k
+ Equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
To democratize video by solving the hard problems developers face when building video.
Role
Who you are
- If you’re passionate about build systems, deployment automation, developer experience, and pushing the next generation of infrastructure that powers it all, you’ll feel right at home here
- You’re fluent in modern CI/CD and the principles behind it. You’ve built, operated, and improved real production ready pipelines, and care about the fundamentals: fast feedback, repeatability, safety, and clear ownership
- You’re a strong software engineer who builds durable systems in a primarily Go ecosystem. You’re comfortable shipping and maintaining these tools and you bring solid engineering judgment to everything from APIs to automation
- You think in end-to-end developer journeys. You don’t just make pipelines “work”, you also make them easy to use and dependable day to day. You build shared service abstractions and automation that connect local dev, builds, tests, and deploys into a clear, reliable path to ship on Kubernetes
- You’ve worked on Kubernetes at scale that matters to the business. You’ve built and run production clusters that host critical-path workloads, and you know how to keep them healthy through upgrades, hardening and incident response
- You bring strong infrastructure and networking fundamentals. You have a solid grasp of TCP/UDP, HTTP, TLS, DNS, Linux, and how systems behave under load. You use that knowledge to debug and design better platforms
- You operate like a true partner to product teams. You internalize “your problems are our problems,” build trust through empathy and follow-through, and enjoy being the multiplier that helps multiple teams succeed
- Nice to Haves:
- Experience with our toolchain. Familiarity with a monorepo, Argo CD, Bazel, Terraform, Tilt, or similar tools helps you ramp fast and shape what’s next
- Experience in video or high-throughput systems. Background with video ingest/streaming/CDN-style data paths, Kafka-like event streaming, or distributed databases (CockroachDB, ClickHouse) is a plus in our world
What the job involves
- As a Senior Platform Engineer focused on CI/CD and Developer Productivity at Mux, you’ll play a key role in evolving the foundation systems that power our high-traffic, distributed products and in shaping how engineers build, test, and ship them every day
- You’ll be the force behind a smooth, end-to-end developer experience in our Kubernetes world, wiring together local dev, builds, tests, and deploys into fast reliable pipelines that scale with our Engineering teams
- Our Platform Engineering team works cross-functionally with product engineers to reduce friction and increase confidence from their first line of code to production
- In this role, you’ll design and run CI/CD systems that improve reliability and velocity across a polyglot monorepo, and partner closely with teams to understand pain points and turn them into delightful, durable tools
- Your work will directly influence how quickly we can innovate and how enjoyable that innovation feels for everyone writing and shipping Mux products
- We’re looking for a Senior Platform Engineer who loves the craft of building mature, reliable delivery systems, and is excited to accelerate teams as Mux scales from its startup roots
- Create paved paths from local dev to prod. Build and maintain a cohesive developer journey including local coding environments, build tooling, test workflows, artifact management, and deploy ergonomics so engineers can ship with confidence
- Make builds faster, safer, and more observable. Improve performance, reliability, “debuggability”, and visibility across our CI/CD stack, ensuring teams understand what’s happening and can fix issues quickly
- Partner deeply with product engineering teams. Pair with teams to understand friction points, co-design workflow improvements, and deliver tooling that fits real product needs not just theoretical ones
- Raise the bar on engineering standards and release quality. Define and evolve best practices for building software, rollout strategies, release automation, and production readiness as Mux scales its delivery maturity
- Shape the roadmap for developer productivity. Help prioritize and drive high-impact initiatives that keep Mux shipping quickly today and set us up for the next phase of growth
Our take
Mux is a performance analytics service for video developers and media publishers that has a goal to improve the quality of experience for online video viewers.
It provides online video publishers with the data needed for tackling common issues in order to build better video experiences, visualized in a powerful analytics dashboard backed by machine learning.
Companies like The New York Times, IGN and PBS, who collectively publish more than 100 videos a day, use Mux to measure baselines and video player performance in real-time.
With video streaming seeing steady growth in recent times, Mux Video’s revenues have been growing at a pace of 8x, making Mux one of the fastest-growing enterprise SaaS companies on the market.
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Insights
-37% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Apr 2021
$105m
SERIES D
Aug 2020
$37m
SERIES C
Total funding: $174m
Company benefits
- Flexible PTO - We encourage a healthy work-life balance
- Healthcare - Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance
- Commuter Benefits - We want to help take the stress out of your commute
- Professional Development Stipend - For your continuous learning and growth
- Catered meals - Plus snacks and (good) coffee
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Steve Heffernan
(Co-founder)A video technology enthusiast with experience in developer product design, creator of other video products including Video.js and Zencoder.
Jon Dahl
(CEO & Co-founder)Co-founder of Zencoder, acquired by Brightcove, where they served as VP of Technology, with experience in software development.
Adam Brown
(CTO & Co-founder)Experienced software developer, serving as a senior software engineer at Brightcove before cofounding Mux in 2016.
Matthew McClure
(Co-Founder)The organizer of the Demuxed conference and the SF video technology meetup. Their background lies in software engineering.
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