JW Player is looking for a strong software engineer to join our Core Services team in our New York City headquarters. Our video platform serves thousands of videos every second. To support that much traffic, we design and build with an eye on speed, flexibility, high availability, and the mission of making sure our customers’ viewers can watch what they want, when they want it.
The right candidate will relish the opportunity to build well-designed elements of a service-oriented architecture. This means collaborating with other smart professionals to build the APIs, infrastructure, pipelines, testing, monitoring, and all other tooling you feel is necessary to ship code frequently and of the highest possible caliber.
As a member of the Core Services team, you will:
- Contribute to the architecture of production-scale services
- Code as part of a high-performing team in an Agile environment
- Create reusable tools that can be used by other teams
- Tackle architectural challenges around high availability of services and data
- Prototype new ideas and explore new solutions to the growing list of problems the platform solves
- Continue to learn and expand your knowledge and skillset
You have the skills to be successful in this role if you have:
- 4+ years of software development and engineering
- Bachelor's in Science or greater in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field; or equivalent experience
- The desire to join a highly technical team in a fast-paced environment
- Proven track record of ownership of maintainable, stable and scalable software
- Experience building scalable systems with cloud infrastructures like AWS or Google Cloud Platform
- Strong Unix/Linux skills
- Experience in Python or a similar language
It is a plus if you have:
- Contributed to existing open-source projects as well as your own
- Experience with Docker and/or Linux Containers
- Experience with configuration management and provisioning servers (SaltStack, Consul)
- Experience with service-oriented architecture
- Experience with event-driven or message-driven architecture
About JW Player
JW Player is the world’s largest network-independent video platform. Founded in 2008 as the first open source video player, today JW Player’s customers span the globe across 193 countries, and range from Fortune 500 companies to video-centric small businesses. The company’s flagship product, JW Player, delivers millions of plays per month across nearly 2 billion unique devices — OTT, mobile and desktop. In addition to the player, the company’s services include advertising, analytics, data services, video hosting and streaming. For more information, see http://www.jwplayer.com.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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