SDE 2 - Backend (Video Engineering)

MumbaiFull-TimeMid-levelBackend

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Collaborate with Video Operations, Player, and Platform teams to ensure reliability, observability, and world-class streaming quality.
Being part of a lean backend team which has streamed over 50,000 hours of live content.
Building high performance and scalable software platforms for a global product
Developing and owning product components – from inception to production to scaling up, supporting new requirements, re-architectures
Work with leaders in Product and Engineering to drive and implement platform and product vision
Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to improve development efficiency

4–7 years of backend engineering experience using Java, Go, Node.js, or equivalent.
Strong understanding of distributed systems, concurrency, memory-efficient programming, and performance optimization.
Experience building REST APIs, microservices, and containerized services (Docker/Kubernetes).
Strong SQL and NoSQL database knowledge.
Solid debugging skills in cloud-native environments (logs, metrics, tracing).

Experience with AWS Media Services (MediaConnect, MediaLive, MediaConvert, CloudFront).
Experience with live video encoders or other broadcast encoding systems.
Knowledge of SRT, RTMP, WebRTC ingest pipelines.
Experience building high-throughput real-time systems (video, gaming, trading, messaging, etc.).
Familiarity with packaging workflows, manifest editing, and SSAI-related concepts.
Exposure to QoE and perceptual quality metrics: VMAF, PSNR, SSIM, NR-VQA.
Interest in sports broadcasting, low-latency workflows, or automation tooling.
Passion for sports is a bonus.