Sr. Software Engineer

Brandlive is hiring a specialized engineer to serve as a key contributor of a mature, business-critical product that powers real-time and on-demand video delivery. The role focuses on high value customer facing enhancements, maintaining system stability, improving automation, and ensuring great customer outcomes.

Responsibilities:

• Maintain, troubleshoot, and support a mature and complex software product in production, including memory, threading, latency, and service to service communication
• Develop, debug, and optimize performance-critical components related to video ingest, processing, playback, and distribution
• Investigate and resolve bugs, performance issues, and production incidents
• Implement high impact enhancements, bug fixes, and technical improvements while minimizing risk, with an emphasis on automation
• Participate in on-call or support rotations as required
• Collaborate with product, QA, and support teams to deliver reliable releases

Requirements:

• 5+ years working in C++, C# or .NET in a Windows environment, with 2+ years focused on low latency video processing and delivery
• Proficiency in T-SQL
• Expert level C++ experience
• Solid JavaScript knowledge
• Windows and Visual Studio experience
• GCP (or equivalent cloud platform) experience
• VideoCodec or streaming technology knowledge
• Experience designing systems for data consistency, failover, and validation
• Strong debugging and root-cause analysis skills; comfort with legacy systems and complex data models
• Ability to document complex technical processes clearly for both engineers and operations teams
• Azure and AWS experience
• HLS (HTTP Live Streaming) engine development in C
• Shaka player or similar streaming player experience
• Experience with large-scale data migrations (100GB+)
• Knowledge of database replication and sync strategies
• DevOps and deployment automation experience