Paramount is looking for a Principal Software Engineer to lead and deliver complex projects, mentor engineers, and build high-performance services that power low-latency, high-throughput environments for streaming video technology
Requirements
- Expert in Go, including multi-threading, memory management and context handling
- Strong in SQL-based databases
- Experience integrating FFMPEG into products and workflows
- Open-Source development experience
- Minimum 15 years professional software development experience
- Transparent Open-source repositories of some of your projects/code
- Recorded public speaking at conferences such as Demuxed, Mile High Video, IBC, NAB or other technical conferences
Responsibilities
- Experience writing specifications and technical documents, including reviewing them with partners and revising as appropriate
- Work well with partners across the organization, including at the specification phase
- Must be strong at carrying a project from inception through specification and spec-reviews all the way through to release and initial post-release monitoring
- Must be a domain expert on, and able to explain the differences of: Fragmented and non-fragmented MP4 files, Transport Stream vs CMAF, HLS vs DASH and manifests in general, Various DRM Technologies including Widevine/Fairplay/PlayReady and how they work, SSAI, CSAI and DAI
- Conversant on optimizing streaming video delivery for the target device
- Full comprehension of networking, distributed systems and IaC, including TCP/IP networking, DNS, TerraForm, Kubernetes and Docker
- Lead and deliver complex projects, mentor engineers, and build high-performance services that power low-latency, high-throughput environments
Other
- Minimum 15 years professional software development experience
- Preferred Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Science, or a related field, or relevant years of experience
- Must be able to work in New York, California, Colorado, Washington state, and most other geographies
- Must be eligible for benefits including medical, dental, vision, 401(k) plan, life insurance coverage, disability benefits, tuition assistance program and PTO
- Paramount is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) including disability/vet
