Senior Software Engineer

About the role

The Video Engineering team supports the video delivery and architecture of VOD and Live content streamed on Paramount+ and other Paramount brands. They manage services for ingesting content into video CMS, encoding, packaging with DRM, and delivering premium content to millions of users daily.

Responsibilities

• Identify bottlenecks and optimize video workflows to improve efficiency across encoding and delivery
• Integrate AI-powered tools into development processes to accelerate build cycles and reduce manual effort
• Build and manage scalable cloud-native applications on OCI and GCP for video processing
• Design, develop, and maintain microservices to support modular and scalable video platform architecture
• Collaborate with development teams on re-architecting and migrating existing monolithic systems into microservices-based cloud architectures
• Maintain and improve the performance, reliability, and scalability of microservices across the video pipeline
• Influence future innovations by staying current with the latest software engineering and video technology trends
• Foster a culture of collaboration and teamwork across the engineering organization

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience as a Software Engineer
• 5+ years working with programming languages such as Golang, Java, Python
• 3+ years of experience designing, building, and maintaining microservices architectures
• 3+ years working with Cloud/SaaS services such as Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) or Google Cloud
• Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science or a similar, related field
• Experience with container technology and orchestration such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices
• Experience with technical writing and design documentation