Senior Software Engineer, Mux
Data
$175-220k
Online video infrastructure
Open for applications
Online video infrastructure
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$175-220k
101-200 employees
Company mission
To democratize video by solving the hard problems developers face when building video.
Role
Who you are
- 4+ years of experience in backend or data engineering using Golang or other similar languages, with a successful track record of contributing to sizable projects from start to finish with end-user impact
- Expertise in building and operating distributed data systems in a service-oriented architecture, with a solid understanding of best practices for fault tolerance, latency, and observability
- A track record of writing high-quality, maintainable code across multiple services and team boundaries
- Solid operational experience with data streaming technologies (e.g., Kafka), Kubernetes, monitoring tools (e.g., Grafana & Prometheus), and databases (e.g. Clickhouse, Redis)
- Strongly preferred: In-depth experience building and scaling data streaming applications
- Experience with video playback telemetry and performance metrics (e.g., rebuffer rates, latency, etc.) is a plus. Experience with Elixir, React/Typescript a plus
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills
What the job involves
- As a Senior Software Engineer on the Mux Data team, you will play a key role in building Mux’s next-generation data products. Mux Data empowers developers to monitor and optimize end-to-end video playback experiences for millions of viewers worldwide
- You will lead and execute complex projects across our data stack and infrastructure, which collects and aggregates over a trillion requests each month.
- You will also help shape the technical direction of our data platform and product offerings, working closely with the rest of the engineering team to advance how we build software collaboratively
- Work cross-functionally with product, customer success, and other engineering teams to execute on product and business strategy, developing features that help customers optimize video experiences
- Develop features as part of a full stack product team. Contribute to the full development cycle: technical design, development, testing, experimentation, analysis, launch, and on-call. You’ll review code and design docs, provide feedback on product specs, and take ownership of your code in production
- Take accountability for planning and delivering projects, both as a hands-on contributor and architect, as well as a facilitator
- Drive ideas and contribute to your team's roadmap, collaborating closely with cross-functional stakeholders
- Build and promote best practices within your team for availability, reliability, and production readiness
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
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
-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 values
- Care obsessively : Every frame matters
- Be human : We are humans first and believe there is more to life than work
- Do a lot with a little : Look for ROI on time and money. We are a startup after all
- Be clear and direct : Good communication leads to good thinking (and vice versa)
- Customers = fans : Always look for opportunities to delight our users
- Bias for action : Don’t wait for something to be on fire to fix it
Company HQ
Civic Center, San Francisco, CA
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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
(Co-founder & CEO)Co-founder of Zencoder, acquired by Brightcove, where they served as VP of Technology, with experience in software development.
Adam Brown
(Co-founder & Head of Technology)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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