Job Description
About Company
We’re looking for an engineer to own and lead our efforts to make our streaming platform reliable, adaptive to varying network conditions, and as high quality as possible. A great candidate will be comfortable contributing to both the client and server, will bring knowledge of video codecs and media streaming, and also be happy to learn new things and help improve any part of the system.
Responsibilities
- Improving video quality and latency in poor network conditions;
- Optimizing the client library to improve streaming performance and reduce latency;
- Measuring performance and stream quality at a deep level, and using that as a yardstick against which we measure progress; Coming up with novel solutions to fix tricky corner cases that users experience;
- Developing techniques to improve streaming reliability and quality on all platforms, including mobile;
- Communicating with users directly to troubleshoot problems and gain a qualitative sense of user happiness with the product.
Your skills & qualifications
Requirements
- Experience with C/C++ or LUA;
- Experience with Linux/Unix system;
- Deep knowledge of networking, and real world experience with dealing with the unpredictability and variability of the internet (e.g., packet loss, latency, bandwidth estimation, FEC);
- Academic background in Computer Science or a related field;
- Experience in startup environments
Benefits for you
- International healthcare insurance, plus the basic insurances regulated by the Labor Code;
- Free lunch and coffee!
- Career development in an international company;
- The chance to improve your hard and soft skills through workshops, knowledge sharing sessions and presentations on multiple IT-related topics;
- The possibility to become acquainted with trending technologies and frameworks and interact with professional teams that use them;
- Challenging projects with a casual and friendly work environment;
- Creativity and innovation are highly appreciated;
- Occasional team buildings that let you know your colleagues.