Software Engineer (Playback Services)

Join our team as a Software Engineer III in Playback Services. In this role, you will focus on reducing playback latency, enhancing streaming security, and improving the customer experience. You will design and build backend services and APIs, take ownership of projects, collaborate with various teams, and participate in on-call and incident response. You should have 5+ years of professional software development experience, strong experience with backend programming languages, and a solid understanding of video streaming fundamentals.

Missions

• Design, build, and improve backend services and APIs that support secure, reliable video playback.
• Take ownership of projects that improve content protection and security services, playback latency, streaming security, content publishing, and avails testing.
• Collaborate with product, QA, and adjacent engineering teams to ship high-quality features and operational improvements.

Profil recherché

- Have strong experience with backend programming languages such as TypeScript, Go, or similar

- Are comfortable working in systems related to content protection, entitlement, secure content access, or adjacent playback security concerns

- Communicate clearly, collaborate effectively across functions, and proactively surface risks, trade-offs, and dependency concerns

- Have 5+ years of professional software development experience building backend services in production environments

- Have hands-on experience with cloud platforms like AWS or GCP and are comfortable working with distributed systems in production

- Can independently own well-scoped projects from design to deployment and make sound technical decisions with the right stakeholder input

- Understand video streaming fundamentals, APIs, backend service architecture, and the operational realities of delivering playback at scale

- Are motivated by improving delivery velocity, strengthening operational coverage, and helping build redundancy in critical technical domains