# Senior Software Engineer (US Deployment/Relocation from Europe) at Bitmovin

- Company: Bitmovin
- What the company does: Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: http://bitmovin.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: United States;
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-07-28
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://bitmovin.com/careers/8653416002?gh_jid=8653416002
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/bitmovin-senior-software-engineer-us-deployment-relocation-from-europe/

## About the role

Our Emmy award-winning technology powers video for household names like Red Bull Media House, RTL, and Technicolor. Are you a US Citizen looking to return? Are you interested in relocating but not found the right role or support? This might be for you.

## What they're looking for

- Demonstrable engineering experience at a senior level, strong in Java or C++, and able to contribute production code from day one
- Experience customer-facing technical role: solutions architecture, professional services, forward deployed, or named-account support
- Hands-on experience running and debugging scalable distributed services in the cloud (AWS and/or GCP, Docker), including log analysis, error diagnosis, and network traces on live customer systems
- Experience keeping production systems healthy, ideally with on-call or incident management
- High autonomy and sound judgment on when to escalate versus resolve, owning issues end-to-end while the EU team is offline
- Excellent written and verbal English, with a track record of communicating credibly with enterprise engineering teams

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