Video Backend Software Engineer

YOUR FUTURE ON DEMAND

The ideal blend of stability and flexibility. A genuinely human employer that cares for people and the planet. True autonomy to shape what comes next for us and you. This is the perfect platform to take your career where you want.

Back in 2005 we pioneered Europes first TV streaming service. Today were the worlds first certified climate neutral TV streaming provider. 3 million users across three countries. Over 230 colleagues of 47 nationalities. Were the grownup startup helping to shape a better future since day one. That hasnt changed even if the world has. Were friendly international inclusive and our people say were reliable and transparent too. Its why they trust us and believe in what we do.

THE ROLE

Become a part of the core team that maintains extends and improves our video backend based on stateoftheart technology. Collaborate with a highly skilled and passionate team of multinational engineers to build and operate our video services.

THE VIDEO BACKEND TEAM

Our team develops the software which provides the origin content for our carriergrade 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 serverside dynamic ad insertion.

WHAT YOULL DO

• Improve our encoding pipeline for live and ondemand content
• Integrate seamless use of GPU or cloud resources in our infrastructure
• Address challenges of largescale storage for VOD and nPVR content
• Improve fault tolerance of our platform
• Develop highquality clean and maintainable code
• Collaborate with stakeholders and engineers across the company

WHAT YOULL BRING

• 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
• Bonus: Experience with container management such as Kubernetes Docker or LXC

WHY JOIN US

At Zattoo youre always on firm ground with real freedom to explore. Youll have the support and opportunity you need to go far while youre helping us create a sustainable and entertainmentfilled future for all.

WHAT WE OFFER YOU

• 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:

• Were sharing: Free access to the best streaming experience on the market
• Were developing: Your own development budget German classes and Zattoo allcompany hack days
• Were inclusive: Zattooies are a fun engaged and diverse team made up of 47 nationalities
• Were healthy: Health checks team sports organic fruit vegan options and more!
• Were responsible: We are carbon neutral an active employee Green team discounted BVG tickets and free bike rentals
• Were sociable: A calendar of events with fireside chats lunches inhouse bar BBQs monthly socials summer party and an annual offsite event

Zattoo enables our users to view indiscriminately and we reflect that in our team too. Regardless of race gender sexual orientation religion national origin age disability or any other characteristic protected by law we encourage everyone to apply and will give everyone equal consideration. We are an equal opportunities employer join us and help build a diverse team dedicated to the future of TV.