Principal Software Engineer

The Principal Engineer, Live will work with engineering teams and product management to execute on our vision to become the leading unified solution for live video streaming by strengthening architecture, developing innovative proofs-of-concept and prototypes, defining and implementing reliable solution architectures, establishing and promoting technology standards and leading adoption of architecture best practices. This individual will engage hands-on with engineers across the world within our engineering teams, rapidly innovating solutions, and creating strong bonds between Engineering and Product organizations that foster unparalleled video experiences for our customers.

The purpose of this role will be to provide technical leadership in the design, development and operations of key products and services that make up Brightcoves world class video platform. This individual will also help teams adopt and effectively utilize modern best practices for agile/evolutionary architecture, site reliability engineering, and devops. The successful candidate will have expertise in disciplines such as, native cloud (SaaS) application development, systems architecture, data, testing, SRE/devops and security.

 

Team Overview

Brightcove s Live team is responsible for building the best-in-class live streaming solution trusted by customers around the world to reliably deliver the highest quality live video experiences to their viewers. we'deliver a live streaming solution that is reliable, scalable and cost-effective to operate. The platform is extensible to meet the growing demands of customers and on-going changes in the industry. Our ecosystem consists of streaming services, DRM, player, QoE (Quality of Experience), microservices, OTT apps, Cloud studio, analytics and SSAI, among others. We are looking for a senior software engineer passionate about live streaming and about delivering the best experience to our customers.

 

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