Staff Software Engineer, Media Experiences

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Architect for Scale: Spearhead the design and advancement of our worldwide media processing and delivery framework, ensuring low-latency and high-availability media for millions of users.

• Optimize Media Pipelines: Develop and enhance robust backend services for video/audio ingestion, distributed transcoding, and CDN routing.

• Drive AI Integration: Collaborate with ML/AI teams to create a roadmap that facilitates media recommendations, intelligent content moderation, and GenAI inference.

• Set the Standard: Define engineering best practices, design the next generation of our media services, and establish strict SLOs/SLAs for our media operations.

• Mentorship & Leadership: Lead and empower multiple engineering teams. Convert complex product requirements into actionable technical roadmaps and promote alignment across the organization.

• Leverage Modern Tooling: Strategically utilize AI-assisted development tools to expedite prototyping, system design, and coding, while exercising rigorous judgment to validate and take ownership of the final outputs. Advocate for AI as a beneficial tool.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 8 years of professional software engineering experience, with a demonstrated history as a Technical Lead or Staff Engineer.

• Distributed Systems Expertise: Proven experience in designing and managing large-scale distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and microservices.

• Communication: Outstanding written and verbal communication skills. Ability to influence technical direction and navigate trade-offs between performance, reliability, and business impact without directly supervising the engineers involved.

• Proven ability to lead extensive, cross-functional engineering initiatives that prioritize technical excellence.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs

• 401k with Employer Match

• Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support

• Family Planning Support

• Gender-Affirming Care

• Mental Health & Coaching Benefits

• Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off

• Generous Paid Parental Leave