Principal Engineer – Systems (Media Streaming)

Location: Englewood, CO

Job Type: Contract to Hire

Job Description

Job Title: Principal Engineer – Systems (Media Streaming)

Location: Englewood, CO or Foster City, CA

Type: CTH

Salary: $181k/yr

About the Position

To be successful in this role, you will need to be:

Highly motivated, driven & hard working.
Not afraid to fail.
A true believer in cloud native, hybrid cloud and continuous deployment.
Able to work independently and clearly present results.
A team player.
Experience architecting and building large-scale distributed applications.
Able to lead by example – we are looking for folks that can design and build. Hands on experience is a key to success.

Responsibilities:

Primary responsibilities include the following:

A strong desire to learn new things and continually improve yourself and those around you with a “can do anything” mentality.
You live to experiment, test, fail fast, and learn as you go, we are not looking for a cookie cutter solution to our complex problems.
Conduct hands-on development across one or multiple areas of the media streaming value chain – content ingestion / delivery, metadata management, transcoding, encoding, DRM / entitlement, CDN, storage, and ad-insertion.
Develop Server less / Function as a service, while implementing relevant web scale and distributed systems.
Create, optimize, and integrate Application Programming Interface (API) calls; background in API development is preferred.
Build high-level user interfaces using rapid prototyping methodologies.

Qualifications:

Skills, Experience and Requirements

Must have:

A 4-year college degree in Computer Science / Information Technology, Bachelor of Science preferred, master’s degree is preferred.
Deep domain expertise of streaming technologies and previous experience in developing streaming applications.
Understanding of REST APIs, the document request model, and offline storage.
Proficiency in one or multiple Programming Languages: Go, Java.
Knowledge of CI/CD & DevSecOps tools: Gitlab, Artifactory, Terraform, etc.
Experience with automated testing of applications, Continuous Integration (CI), TDD, and/or BDD.

Nice to have:

Knowledge of device ecosystem (Apple, Android, Roku), video players, codecs and video standards.
Knowledge of native platforms (iOS, Android, and/or Roku) and/or JavaScript Browser Clients is a plus.