Backend Engineer (Golang)

The Role

At Zattoo we are building the TV platform of the future. To make that possible, we are looking for an experienced backend developer (f/m/x) with a specialization in Golang to join our backend team.

As the demand for unicast TV delivery is constantly growing, we are scaling out our custom-built delivery infrastructure to serve linear and non-linear video data on a multi Tbps scale. Because we control the whole chain from ingest through encoding/transcoding, to packaging and delivery, there are many exciting areas to work on and to push TV to a new level.

You will play a key role in developing and extending our own Content Delivery Network (CDN) and be responsible to optimize video traffic flow, access authorization and logging/reporting. You will be working together closely with the core video, middleware, data and SRE/Ops teams and build and maintain services that link all of them together.

Tasks

• Design, engineer & implement highly-available, fault-tolerant, distributed systems enhancing our core video streaming platform
• Analyse and understand Zattoo’s core services and explore ways on how to efficiently scale them
• Write and maintain systems that collect and preprocess large scale log data
• Implement and develop improvements to platforms, infrastructure, tools and processes
• Develop clean and maintainable code
• Collaborate with stakeholders and engineers across the company
• Become a valued member of Zattoo’s Engineering team and improve our core services

Requirements

• 2+ years proven experience with Golang in a production environment
• Experience with any of the following programming languages are also a plus: C/C++, Python
• Strong knowledge of Unix/Linux platforms
• Expertise in concurrent and distributed systems/web services
• Good understanding of data stores, we use cassandra/scylla, redis, elasticsearch, mysql
• Comfortable working with remote colleagues, multidisciplinary teams and external partners
• Fluent verbal and written English language skills
• Bonus: A BS/MS degree in computer science or similar discipline
• Bonus: Previously worked in a DevOps environment and worked with container management such as Kubernetes, Docker or LXC
• Bonus: Knowledge about http based streaming protocols like HLS or MPEG DASH
• Bonus: Knowledge about routing protocols (BGP)

Benefits

• Highly motivated, growing, diverse team made up of 33 different nationalities
• Flexible work schedules and options to work from home
• Flat hierarchies and open door policy
• Competitive compensation and vacation entitlement
• Social events ranging from company lunches and after work drinks to annual off site company events
• Free yoga classes, German language classes and health checks