About Mux

Mux is video for developers. Our mission is to democratize video by solving the hard problems developers face when building video: video encoding and streaming (Mux Video), video monitoring (Mux Data), and more. Video is a huge part of people’s lives, and we want to help make it better.

We’re committed to building a healthy team that welcomes a diverse range of backgrounds and experiences. We want people who care about our mission, are ready to grow, believe in our values (from Be Human to Turn Customers Into Fans), and want to make the people around them better.

You’ll be joining a tight-knit team with experience at places like Google, YouTube, Twitch, Zencoder, Fastly, and more. Our founders previously started (and sold) Zencoder, an early leader in cloud video technology, and authored Video.js, the biggest HTML5 video player on the web. We organize Demuxed, the premiere conference for video engineers in the world. 

We’re backed by top investors like Coatue, Accel, Andreessen Horowitz, and Y Combinator. You’ll get to work with amazing companies: hundreds of startups, plus Reddit, Vimeo, Robinhood, CBSi, Discovery, PBS, and TED. Customers large and small love working with us and love our team.

We’re growing quickly and are building something big together. We’d love to hear from you!

About the Role 

As a Backend Engineer focusing on distributed systems at Mux, you will build and manage scalable and highly-available applications & services that support new feature development and growing usage. Mux Data is an observability product for developers working with video that aggregates & monitors insights for the end-to-end video playback experience. This team builds all aspects of the Mux Data product, e.g. our client-side SDKs, web frontend, and the backend for processing & aggregation. Your work will enable powerful new product features and ensure the platform is resilient & scalable. We’re looking for engineers that love both systems and application-level challenges across various teams, who will take on strong ownership of critical product infrastructure and enjoy being part of an inclusive and creative Engineering team.

What You'll Do

• Work with your team to collaborate and execute on the product goals and technical roadmap.
• Building high-volume stream processing systems with technologies like Golang, Kafka, Flink, and Clickhouse.
• Working across teams to ensure every new major feature in Mux Video can be measured & monitored with Mux Data.
• Empowering teams to build high-quality video experiences by collecting video playback & interaction data and exposing it through powerful dashboards & APIs. 
• Technologies you may touch include:
  • Code: Golang, Elixir, gRPC, Edge Compute
  • Cloud: Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services, Fastly, Cloudflare
  • Data: Kafka, Clickhouse, Flink, CockroachDB, Postgres
  • Orchestration: Kubernetes, Docker, Envoy, Tilt
  • Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, Elasticsearch

Who You Are

• We are hiring mid to staff-level engineers.
• You’re a strong engineer comfortable working across multiple platforms and environments.
• Solid engineering fundamentals (CS degree a plus).
• Track record of working on hard problems including job scheduling, concurrency, and scaling.
• Experience with deploying complex applications on cloud platforms using a container orchestration platform, such as Kubernetes.
• Experience with administering high availability data technologies, such as Kafka.
• Fluency in a systems-level programming language (Golang preferred).
• Video experience is a plus but not required.

If you don't have all of these requirements but think your experience could be a great fit, that's okay! Please apply and we can talk about what's most needed in the role.

U.S. Benefits

You'd join an amazing team from places like Google/YouTube, Amazon/Twitch, Facebook/Oculus, Brightcove, Bain, and the BBC. We have a supportive culture that cares about both excellent work and work-life balance.

We are remote-equal, with an office space in Downtown San Francisco and another in London, right next to the Liverpool Station.

• Flexible PTO
• Healthy work-life balance encouraged
• Competitive health, dental, and vision insurance (99% employee and 60% dependent premium coverage)
• Fertility benefits
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance
• Group life insurance
• Critical illness and accident insurance
• 401(k)
• Paid parental leave
• Investment in career growth and training
• Thought leadership and peer recognition program
• “Day of Learning” events
• Reimbursements for headphones, cell phones, device upgrades, and SVOD services of Mux customers
• Remote lunch reimbursement 3x/week

Mux is an Equal Opportunity employer committed to building a diverse company. We believe diversity makes us better, and we strive to be inclusive and equitable. That’s why we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status or disability status.