Senior Software Engineer, Video Infrastructure

Diamond Kinetics (DiamondKinetics.com) is a growing sports-tech company focused in baseball and softball. As the market leader in the space, DK combines motion-based sensors with mobile applications and a robust digital platform to provide hitting and throwing data to players, parents, coaches, and teams – helping them understand their performance, improve, and have more fun playing the game they love. 

Diamond Kinetics is a fast-paced, performance-driven company where responsibility comes quickly, and exceeding expectations is the expectation. The work is challenging and exciting, especially for those who love sports.  We believe in stretching for growth as a company and as professionals. We seek competitive, self-motivated people as teammates who do the same.

Seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Video Infrastructure to help build the next generation of youth sports video services. Diamond Kinetics is looking for a high performance individual interested in driving our existing youth sports video solutions to the next level. As a development leader at Diamond Kinetics, you must be passionate about delivering highly reliable, robust software solutions that will scale through industry best practices to service the entire sport of baseball and softball at all levels.

Job Function and Purpose

The Senior Software Engineer, Video Infrastructure plays an integral role in the development and ownership of all video services in the Diamond Kinetics’ product solution. This position will require the ability to tackle the day-to-day development tasks required for successful implementation of scalable video architecture, as well as providing technical guidance for building stable video processing pipelines that scale.

Success in this role is defined by: building reliable, well-tested, full-stack video processing pipelines that enable additional video processing & consumption capabilities.

An ideal candidate for this role enjoys building scalable software solutions to challenging problems that span low level networking, video processing concepts, low-latency video on demand delivery systems, and the application of computer vision to youth sports video.

As the company grows into new and exciting opportunities within the sports of baseball & softball we seek an engineer who is passionate about software development best practices, team building, and delivering high quality applications to a growing user base.

Diamond Kinetics’ team and our product offerings are growing quickly, so the role requires a self-motivated individual with a proven track record of excellent communication, organization, and technical skills to work cross functionally with other organizations (internal and external), who can also communicate to all levels of management.

Key Responsibilities

Guide Technical Requirements, Design, and Build

• Set the technical direction for the engineering of software solutions to ingest, transcode, store, and distribute user generated video content at ever increasing scale
• Assist in prioritizing the organization’s development efforts to build new features in cloud-native video processing pipelines against the need to improve robust and responsive service delivery
• Manage an ongoing plan and resources to incorporate product and requirements documents created by the product team

Execute Effectively Against the Software Development/Deployment Lifecycle

• Extend existing CI/CD pipelines to make developing for, deploying against, and monitoring system health of an ever growing network of video processes as seamless and enjoyable as possible
• Manage a backlog of features and bugs as reported by users and internal team members
• Work closely with the product team to assess and grow video processing capabilities
• Promote software development best-practices across the development team including continuous integration, accuracy testing & reporting, centralized logging, crash reporting, etc.

Be a Customer Champion Within the Diamond Kinetics Solution

• Along with all team members, be a voice of the customer internally; ensure that players’, coaches’, and parents’ needs and ideas are incorporated into the development roadmap
• Promote idea generation for new products/features based on validated customer and competitive insights
• Give direction to non-technical team members around what is possible from within the technical solution as it relates to customer experience in video processing
• Effectively engage with customers (coaches, players, and parents) during real-life use of Diamond Kinetics’ software and hardware

Monitor and Improve Performance and Satisfaction

• Set and measure against relevant benchmarks for growth, stability, and usage of our video services
• Analyze, review, and report on effectiveness of new initiatives and products

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• B.S. or equivalent degree in Computer Science, or equivalent field of study
• 5-10 years of software development experience with a track record of success
• Demonstrated proficiency with deploying, running, and maintaining workloads on cloud service providers like AWS, GCP, etc. Experience with tools such as Kubernetes and Terraform is a plus
• Deep understanding of video codecs and protocols, including: HLS, H.264, H.265, RTMP and related processing tools such as ffmpeg.
• Passionate about software development best practices and confident communication skills to promote those best practices
• Comfortable working in multiple languages across multiple architectures, with a demonstrable history of quickly picking up new languages and frameworks
• Demonstrable proficiency in Python, Kubernetes, Docker, shell scripts. Languages that would be a bonus, but are not required: C/C++, Swift, Java, or Kotlin

Additional Desired Experience

• MS or higher degree in Computer Science
• Played or coached youth sports, especially baseball or softball; understanding and passion for sports
• Experience with Computer Vision processes for understanding and manipulating video content
• Start-up and/or early-stage company experience

• Unique and exciting opportunity to work at an MLB-backed early-stage company
• Flexible work environment in our office in Pittsburgh, PA, or remotely in US time zones
• Must be legally eligible to work in the United States
• Competitive compensation package including salary, bonus, stock options, health insurance and 401K plan.
• Diamond Kinetics is an equal-opportunity employer