Zencoder: Principal Systems Engineer

San Francisco, CA  ‐ Onsite
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Come work on one of the world's biggest video software deployments. Every minute, Zencoder transcodes several hundred minutes of video, on hundreds of cloud servers, in multiple datacenters around the world, and we do it with consistently high performance. Brightcove as a whole handles billions of video streams each year. Your work will be used immediately by thousands of customers, ranging from interesting startups to major broadcasters. Customers love us, and we're growing quickly.
We're looking for a Senir DevOps Engineer to help architect and implement the next generation of our cloud transcoding and ingestion system. You will work alongside a small but exceptional engineering and dev ops team to build a cloud-based video processing system that will change the way the world publishes video.
ABOUT YOU:

  • You have worked in operations or engineering at large scale, and have deployed large systems in the past.
  • You have experience in automated deployment and provisioning. (Chef, Puppet, CFEngine, Asgard are examples)
  • You have experience in multiple languages. (C and Ruby are preferred but not required.)
  • You understand the basics: Linux, security, CDNs, Amazon EC2, HTTP, web service architecture.
  • You're familiar with data stores, message queues, and relational databases. You know the tradeoffs between Riak, Redis, Zookeeper, and Postgresql.
  • You understand the principles of software craftsmanship. You write clean code, even when working on extremely hard problems. You unit test everything.
  • Experience with video technology a plus.

WHAT YOU'LL DO:
  • Improve and expand our existing deployments and infrastructure, embedded alongside of engineeringand dev ops.
  • Help us scale our next 100x.
  • Architect new products and systems.
  • Design and build monitoring systems, metrics, internal dashboards, and other tools that keep Zencoder fast, scalable, and reliable.
WHAT WE LOOK FOR:
  • Ambition to make things awesome, not just good enough
  • Excitement about Brightcove and what we're building
  • Positive attitude and desire to work with great people

PERKS:
  • Competitive salary and full benefits
  • Equity stake in a growing company
  • Catered lunches every day
  • Aeron chair and computer of your choice
  • Commuter benefits


Start date
n.a
From
Brightcove
Published at
29.10.2014
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Project ID:
798988
Contract type
Freelance
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