Senior Software Engineer - Video Streaming Solutions Job at Atmosphere TV in Aus
Atmosphere TV, Austin, TX, United States, 78716
Senior Software Engineer - Video Streaming Solutions
(Austin, TX)
About Atmosphere
Atmosphere is the world’s #1 streaming service for businesses, offering 30+ channels of engaging, audio-optional TV. From news, sports, live events, and nature to viral videos, art and more, Atmosphere delivers fresh programming designed to elevate any business space. Our company was built from the ground up to create unparalleled value for advertisers and next-level entertainment for companies around the globe.
About the Role
We’re currently looking for a highly motivated, experienced software engineer to join our team focused on developing cutting edge TV streaming experiences for business. 150 million monthly viewers count on us to deliver high-quality, enjoyable, and engaging experiences in over 60,000 venues worldwide. The right candidate is someone who seeks out challenges and is intrinsically motivated to solve customer-centric problems with novel technology solutions. It's important that this person is able to efficiently work with the team to ensure we have high implementation quality, strong engineering culture, and a quality mindset. The individual should bring a passion for building fantastic solutions and be willing to play a variety of roles as emergent demands drive the next opportunities for the team.
This is an on-site role in Austin, TX! Availability to be in-office 4-5 days a week is required.
Role Responsibilities
- Be intrinsically motivated! Be naturally curious, enjoy seeking out new problems, and driving novel solutions with groups of other engineers.
- Individually lead significant technical system architecture and major feature implementations.
- Rally the team to solve tough challenges.
- Work with cross-functional peers (product, design, data, business) to design and deliver robust and reliable software solutions to business problems.
- Improve code and better those around you, leveraging excellent technical skills.
- Collaborate with other engineers and figure out how to make us better/faster/stronger.
- Champion best practices, developing engineering culture, and have influence outside your direct team within the engineering organization.
Requirements
- 5+ years in delivering world-class customer-facing software products
- Proven problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot and debug complex issues.
- Excellent communication skills.
- CS degree or demonstrably strong computer science fundamentals.
- Deep understanding of video codecs (H.264, H.265, AV1, etc.) and streaming protocols (HLS, DASH, RTMP, etc.).
- Experience with cloud-based solutions for video processing and delivery (e.g., AWS Elemental, Azure Media Services).
- Familiarity with server-side ad insertion (SSAI) technologies (VAST, ad beaconing, SCTE-35, etc) for dynamic ad stitching and tracking.
- Experience with synchronizing media playback across devices (e.g., multi-screen experiences or live events). - Nice to have
- Familiarity with DRM technologies (Widevine, FairPlay, PlayReady). - Nice to have
- Experience developing native TV applications (Swift, Kotlin). - Nice to have
COMPENSATION & BENEFITS
- Competitive salary
- Company Equity
- Competitive insurance plans
- Company 401(k) with employer matching
- Flexible Time Off Policy