Senior Backend Engineer, Mux
Platform Experience
$126-220k
Online video infrastructure
Open for applications
Online video infrastructure
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$126-220k
101-200 employees
Company mission
To democratize video by solving the hard problems developers face when building video.
Role
Who you are
- Minimum of 7 years of experience in production distributed systems & backend engineering
- You’re a strong engineer comfortable working across multiple platforms and environments
- Solid engineering fundamentals (CS degree a plus)
- Track record of working on hard problems including job scheduling, concurrency, and scaling
- Elixir experience is a big plus, but Go, Python, Ruby, Node, or other general-purpose programming languages are also great
- Experience deploying complex applications on cloud platforms using a container orchestration platform, such as Kubernetes
- Video experience is a plus but not required
What the job involves
- As a Backend Software Engineer at Mux, you will build and manage scalable and highly available applications and services that can reliably support our products' feature development and growing traffic. The Platform Experience team is focused on providing a consistent, effective platform experience for customers.
- You will work on ensuring our customer-facing platform is resilient and will also be writing new application code to support product features. We’re looking for engineers that love both systems and application-level challenges across various teams, who will take on strong ownership of critical product infrastructure, and enjoy being part of an inclusive and creative Engineering team
- Work with your team to collaborate and execute on product goals and technical roadmap
- Develop user-facing, product-focused features in our Elixir and Go backend services
- Building and scaling our billing and usage platform that supports all Mux products
- Working on identity and account management product features
- Working on distributed notifications such as application webhooks and alerting features
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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