Senior Software Engineer - Media
Descript - San Francisco, CA, United States
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Overview
We are building the next-generation AI-powered platform and web application for easy and fast creation of audio and video content. Building a revolutionary way to record, transcribe, edit, and mix audio and video on the web comes with a series of unique technical challenges and requires solving hard and complex problems.
We are looking for an experienced software engineer with significant video expertise to build a best-in-class video editing and streaming platform to power the core functionality of the app.
What You’ll Do
- Build and optimize high availability, high performance systems to handle petabyte-scale data ingest, processing, and serving
- Provide a useful media platform to AI research and engineering teams train and integrate AI features that work on media, including multimodal LLMs, video transformation models, and information
- Engage with the open-source media and video engineering community to improve key tools like ffmpeg
- Develop tools to develop, test, benchmark, and debug our video and audio processing systems
- Discover, evaluate, and adopt new technologies that can enhance our services and/or improve our efficiency
- Mentor members on the engineering team, especially when it comes to video and audio technologies
What You Bring
- 5+ years of professional software development experience
- Strong CS fundamentals, backend infrastructure experience, and understanding of digital video technologies, including formats, codecs, and processing tools (e.g. MP4, HVEC, HLS, WebRTC, MPEG-DASH, ffmpeg)
- Self-aware of strengths and seeking to constantly learn and improve
- Strong written and verbal communication
At our current size and stage, we embrace a flat organizational structure and value the expertise and contributions of every team member. As such, we have a unified job title for our engineering roles where everyone, including those with Staff-level scope, is considered a Software Engineer. While titles may not change, we are actively seeking senior and above Software Engineers to join our team.
The base salary range for this role is $160,000- $230,000/year. Final offer amounts will carefully consider multiple factors, including prior experience, expertise, location, and may vary from the amount above.
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