Philo Ventures — a family of companies spanning venture building, real estate, and hospitality. We create enduring value through bold ideas and disciplined execution.
About the role
Design, implement, deploy, and monitor the next generation of Philo’s SSAI service. Collaborate with our partners in the ad ecosystem to engineer ad tech products that deliver the finest TV watching experience for Philo’s users and best value for advertisers. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 8+ years of software development experience
- Experience building or integrating SSAI using MPEG-DASH or HLS media streaming technologies
- Familiarity with industry standards such as VAST, VMAP, OpenRTB and header bidding
- Experience building or integrating ad servers, demand-side platforms or supply-side platforms with personalized ad targeting capabilities
- Familiarity with programmatic advertising using platforms like Publica, Freewheel, Google Ad Exchange or Amazon APS
- Proven track record of building highly efficient and highly available software using Golang, Java, C++ or similar programming languages
More about this role
At Philo, we’re a group of technology and product people who set out to build the future of television, marrying the best in modern technology with the most compelling medium ever invented — in short, we’re building the TV experience that we’ve always wanted for ourselves. In practice this means leveraging cloud delivery, modern tech stacks, machine learning, and hand-crafted native app experiences on all of our platforms. We aim to deliver a rock solid experience on the streaming basics, while cooking up next generation multi-screen and multi-user playback experiences.
Philo's video streaming infrastructure is highly distributed, horizontally scalable and harnesses the power of cloud computing. Our OTT pipeline, developed in-house, ingests both live and VOD content from our content partners, dynamically inserts ads into video streams using Server-Side Ad Insertion (SSAI), and optimally delivers them to our growing user base at exabyte scale.
We are seeking an enthusiastic Software Engineer to help us build the future of our ads platform. As a member of a growing team, you will serve as both a technical leader to help us engineer our ad tech stack, as well as an internal subject...
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