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 video streaming pipeline, using a combination of in-house technology and open source software. Collaborate with content partners to engineer systems that deliver the best possible TV watching experience for Philo’s users.
What they're looking for
- 8+ years of software development experience
- Proven track record of building highly efficient and highly available software using Golang, Java, C++ or similar programming languages
- Deep experience with concurrent programming
- Experience building concurrent HA and high throughput RESTful web services
- Experience operating in cloud computing environments using modern software deployment technologies (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes)
- Demonstrated ability to own and drive complex architectural/development tasks to completion by following Scrum/Agile methodologies
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.
Video is at the core of Philo and what customers engage with the most: watching their favorite shows. The Video Infrastructure team is crucial for delivering on this high expectation, and — together with the Ads team — for generating significant revenue through advertising. We own the systems that get every frame of Philo to every screen: live and video on demand transcoding, DRM and license servers, manifest generation that holds up under peak live events, and Server-Side Ad Insertion (SSAI). We support playback across all major streaming platforms, and partner closely with the Ads, Client, and Data teams to build...
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