What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr. Frontend Software Engineer (Video Engineering) [NY] position at Philo?
At Philo, we're a group of technology and product people who set out to build the future of television, marrying the best in modern technology with the most compelling medium ever invented - in short, we're building the TV experience that we've always wanted for ourselves. In practice this means leveraging cloud delivery, modern tech stacks, machine learning, and hand-crafted native app experiences on all of our platforms. We aim to deliver a rock solid experience on the streaming basics, while cooking up next generation multi-screen and multi-user playback experiences.
Senior Frontend Software Engineer (Video Engineering) [NY]
Philo's video streaming infrastructure is highly distributed, horizontally scalable, and harnesses the power of cloud computing to deliver enough video to comprise single digit percentages of North American internet traffic. Our video players are all developed in-house, leveraging a layer of shared code across platforms, and open source technology for playback. Our video pipeline, which is also developed in-house, ingests both live and VOD content, dynamically inserts ads into video streams using Server-Side Ad Insertion (SSAI), and optimally delivers them to our growing user base at exabyte scale. We use industry leading commercial and open source components in the transcode stage, paired with just-in-time packaging and our own ad stitcher that outputs unique manifests (targeting both HLS and MPEG-DASH) on a per-user, per-session basis.
We are seeking an enthusiastic Video Software Engineer to help us build and optimize the next generation of our frontend video platforms.
Responsibilities :
- Own the application-driven playback quality on all devices playing Philo content.
- Design, implement, release and monitor the next generation of Philo's content streaming frontend infrastructure.
- Drive continuous improvements to the reliability, performance, latency, and security of Philo's streaming platforms, leveraging both in-house technology and, as necessary, contributing to open source projects.
- Ensure we are measuring and optimizing every aspect of our content delivery process and the quality of our users' viewing experience (QoE).
Qualifications :
Bonus Points :
Status : Full-time
Location : Brooklyn, NY or remote
Compensation : Includes annual salary between $162K - $210K depending on experience and location, company stock options and health benefits
We value a diverse and inclusive workplace and we welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, skills, and perspectives. Philo is an equal opportunity employer. We believe that everyone does their best work when they are supported by each other and the company, and we offer a generous set of benefits to make sure the Philo team is happy and healthy. Here is a sampling of the benefits we offer our team :
For California Residents : Philo's CCPA Notice at Collection - Employees, Applicants, Owners, Directors, Officers and Contractors
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Salary : $162,000 - $210,000
