Senior Software Engineer, Mux
Platform Engineering/Site Reliability Engineering
$185-225k
Online video infrastructure
Open for applications
Online video infrastructure
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$185-225k
101-200 employees
Company mission
To democratize video by solving the hard problems developers face when building video.
Role
Who you are
- We’re looking for the ideal Engineer who will enjoy the fast-paced nature of a startup, and has a strong record of building scalable infrastructure and CI/CD systems through partnerships with product engineering teams
- If you have a passion for Kubernetes, automation, learning, challenging and bettering your peers, you are a good fit for our team!
- Expertise in building and scaling business-critical Kubernetes infrastructure through all phases of the cluster lifecycle
- Software engineering skills for developing tools and automation solutions with Go
- Proven experience with Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD systems using technologies like Bazel, Terraform, and Argo CD/Workflows/Rollouts
- Deep knowledge of engineering fundamentals such as TCP/UDP, HTTP, TLS, DNS, and Linux system administration
- Ability to evolve infrastructure platforms through shared service abstractions and automation, creating a seamless user experience for our development teams
- Healthy, respectful relationships to support all of our partner teams such as Product, Analytics and Developer Experience
- Proficiency in implementing and utilizing infrastructure observability and monitoring tools (Grafana Cloud, prometheus, OpenTelemetry, eBPF
Desirable
- Managing a monorepo repository
- Video technologies (ingest, live-streaming, RTMP routing, content delivery, global networking)
- Event streaming platforms or data pipelines (Apache Kafka)
- Distributed databases (CockroachDB, ClickHouse)
- Experience with edge networking and service mesh (Envoy, Cilium or similar)
What the job involves
- As a Senior Software Engineer for the Platform Engineering Team at Mux, you will be a contributor to the design and operation of the infrastructure that powers Mux’s high traffic, distributed platforms in addition to our build and deployment systems
- Participate in the design and deployment of major shared container orchestration infrastructure components to meet the growing demands of the distributed systems powering our products
- Improve the usability of our platform services and CI/CD systems through tooling and automation to drive the velocity of our product engineering teams
- Lead cross-functional projects with other engineering teams and contribute to strategic roadmap initiatives
- Debug production issues across applications and services at all layers of the infrastructure stack
- Evolve our engineering standards and processes
- Champion best practices for availability, reliability, capacity planning, incident management, and production readines
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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