Software Engineer - Video Ingest & Storage

Become a part of the core team that maintains, extends and improves our video backend based on state of the art technology. Collaborate with a highly skilled and passionate team of multi-national engineers to build and operate our video services.

THE VIDEO INGEST & STORAGE TEAM

Our team develops the software which provides the origin content for our carrier-grade streaming platform, covering the full processing chain including content ingest, transcoding and storage. We work closely with the Streaming Backend team - who develops our CDN services, and with the Ads Backend team - whose engineers focus on our solutions for server-side dynamic ad insertion.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Improve our encoding pipeline for live and on-demand content
• Integrate seamless use of GPU or cloud resources in our infrastructure
• Address challenges of large-scale storage for VOD and nPVR content
• Improve fault tolerance of our platform
• Develop high-quality, clean and maintainable code
• Collaborate with stakeholders and engineers across the company

• Expert knowledge in C/C++ programming
• Excellent understanding of operating system / Linux fundamentals
• Expertise and ideas to build highly concurrent and distributed systems
• Experience diagnosing and troubleshooting complex systems using test tools, network management systems and error reporting systems
• Desire and abilities to learn new technologies and programming languages
• Comfortable working with remote colleagues and multidisciplinary teams
• Experience in development and support of production systems with 24x7 operations
• Bonus: knowledge in Golang programming
• Bonus: Experience with distributed data stores such as Scylla or ClickHouse

• Reward: strong market competitive salary
• Recharge: 30 days vacation plus public holidays
• Regulate: trust based flexible working hours and the option for remote work worldwide for up to 8 weeks per year

Plus:

• We're sharing: Free access to the best streaming experience on the market
• We're developing: Your own development budget, German classes and Zattoo all-company hack days
• **We're inclusive: '**Zattooies' are a fun, engaged, and diverse team made up of 47 nationalities
• We're healthy: Health checks, mental wellbeing support, team sports and more!
• We're responsible: We are carbon neutral, an active employee Green team, discounted BVG tickets and free bike rentals
• We're sociable: A calendar of events with fireside chats, lunches, in-house bar, BBQ's, monthly socials, summer party and an annual off-site event

Back in 2005, we pioneered Europe's first TV streaming service. Today, we're the world's first certified climate neutral TV streaming provider. Several million users across three countries. Over 230 colleagues of 47 nationalities. We're the grown-up start-up, helping to shape a better future since day one. That hasn't changed, even if the world has. We're friendly, international, inclusive - and our people say we're reliable and transparent, too. It's why they trust us and believe in what we do.