The Role:
We are looking for a Backend Video Engineer who is passionate about empowering creators, solving tough problems, and seeing immediate results. In this role you will be responsible for improving existing products that are popular among live streamers and other creators as well as building new products.
You will be an integral part of Streamlabs (acquired by Logitech in 2019). The Streamlabs segment of Logitech is a software oriented branch working from San Francisco, Vancouver and remotely. We make the leading set of tools and software allowing live streamers to engage with viewers, monetize their broadcasts, and grow their channels. On top of our core product stack under the Streamlabs umbrella, we are building new products to further empower creators and these new innovative products is where you come in. Example of 2 new products that we launched this year are oslo.io and melonapp.com
If you like working on new technologies, want to have an impact on millions of users, want to shape the creator economy, enjoy investigating and solving problems, and working in a fast paced environment - then this role is for you. You will not do this work alone and will be supported by our talented and passionate team.
Your contribution:
Work with small team of client engineers, product managers, and designers to build new features
Investigate back-end related issues, identify root causes, and implement solutions
Ensure that your product has the highest possible video and audio quality
Key Qualifications:
For consideration, you must bring the following minimum skills and behaviors to our team:
Must have 2+ years of experience in Java
Must have 2+ years of experience working on Backend applications
Must have 1+ years of engineering experience in media streaming or video applications
Experience designing and implementing complex algorithms
Experience in implementing and maintaining backend applications
Experience using git
Experience in learning in a timely manner new technologies
Be a great team member who is willing to listen, learn, teach and be passionate about having a serious impact
Impact driven mindset
Ownership over your work
In addition, these are bonus/preferred
Experience with Puppeteer, gstreamer
Experience in implementing and maintaining RTMP ingest servers
Experience with Wowza, Mux or other media servers/APIs
Familiarity with content creation
Experience in audio/video encoding and specifically H264
Experience in video streaming protocols and specifically RTMP
Education:
A Bachelor’s degree, or preferable Master’s, in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent professional experience
Logitech is the sweet spot for people who are passionate about products, making a mark, and having fun doing it. As a company, we’re small and flexible enough for every person to take initiative and make things happen. But we’re big enough in our portfolio, and reach, for those actions to have a global impact.That’s a pretty sweet spot to be in and we’re always striving to keep it that way.
“All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or on the basis of disability.”
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