Sr. Software Engineer, Player Backend

The backend element of our playback and delivery system is the core of what ensures Vimeo can deliver video content to anyone anywhere with the best quality of experience possible. If you’re passionate about the latest video technologies, have a strong eye for performant software development, and are a creative thinker who can inform engineering best practices, consider joining our team.

What you’ll do:

• Be part of a world class group of engineers who build Vimeo’s video playback and delivery solutions
• Work closely with Transcoding and Delivery teams and external CDN vendors to maintain and optimize a seamless video playback experience everywhere
• Evaluate and test new video delivery technologies and optimizations
• Provide mentorship to help increase the efficiency, stability, deliverability, and maintainability of everything your team produces
• Develop and implement processes for building better software and development processes and become an evangelist for architectural and organizational best practices

Skills and knowledge you should possess:

• Extensive experience designing and implementing systems with clarity, reusability, testability, and scalability in mind
• Ability to communicate and collaborate respectfully and effectively with both technical and non-technical teams
• Have strong organizational ability and can break up projects into manageable pieces and complete them in a timely manner
• Experience developing services at scale with Node.js, Python or Go
• Experience using cloud platforms like Google Cloud or AWS
• Knowledge of video performance metrics with a proven history of making data driven decisions
• Passion around continuous education, research, and development around the latest video technologies
• Willing to work outside of textbook norms. Creative thinker who can take traditional software development practices and pull from them the aspects that will work best for Vimeo
• Top notch communication skills (written and verbal)

Bonus points (nice skills to have, but not needed): 

• Experience with different video delivery methods (DASH, HLS, Progressive etc.).
• Consistently keeping up with CDN technology, deployment techniques and data driven development techniques

Targeted Base Salary Range:  $127,.800 to $196,000

The base salary range listed above is for candidates located in the U.S., including the New York City metro area.

At Vimeo, we strive to hire and nurture amazing talent across the globe. Actual salaries will vary depending on factors including but not limited to experience, specialized skills, internal alignment and a candidate’s home base.

Base salary is just one component of Vimeo’s total rewards philosophy. We offer a wide range of benefits and perks that appeal to the variety of needs across our diverse employee base! Other rewards may include bonus or commission, Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), paid time off, generous 401k match, wellbeing resources, and more.

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