Senior Media Engineer (Remote) Job at Zencastr, San Francisco, CA

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  • Zencastr
  • San Francisco, CA

Job Description

Empower the voices of the world @ Zencastr. If you want to push the world of podcasting into the future, come join a team that loves to live on the edge! We are a fully distributed team of smart people who are passionate about changing the world one voice at a time.

You should join us if you:

  • You have significant experience with codecs / encoding / transcoding, media containers, streaming
  • You have a good understanding of computer science fundamentals. You might not have gone to school for it, but you know the difference between heap and stack, different time complexities, which patterns to use, and when
  • You are not afraid of words like H264, VP8, I-frames, P-frames, NALU, SVC, DTS
  • You are ambitious. You might want to build your own company one day or have tried to tackle the toughest tech problems just for fun
  • You have deep experience writing C / C++
  • You are open to writing typescript sometimes
  • You have an eye for performance. Whether thinking about maintaining the best frame rates, or creating the fastest video codecs you care about speed.
  • You are a team player. One team, one dream.
  • You have good communication skills. You can write a technical spec as well as play “Among Us” with the team and find the imposter!

What sets you apart:

  • You have a passion for high-performance applications
  • You have significant open source contributions
  • You want to work in a fast-growing startup. Which comes with the blood, sweat, and tears of working to disrupt an established industry
  • You have empathy for the end-user. A spec is a conversation starter, as an advocate for the end-user you always are thinking about how to best serve their needs
  • You have an eye for code quality and you strive to uphold best practices in engineering, security, and design

Why you should choose us:

  • You’ll be working with world‑class engineers, Ph.D.’s, and designers in a fully distributed team
  • Work in an agile and fast-changing environment
  • Equity commensurate to your contribution in a profitable company
  • Health insurance
  • Unique challenges and the support and talent to solve them
  • 4 weeks PTO
  • Freedom to work where you please
  • Office setup budget
  • Continuing education credits

What we’re looking for:

  • 5 + years of С/С++ experience
  • Ability to lead the design and implementation of major software components, systems, and features

Bonus points if you have:

  • Experiencing working in high traffic, low latency applications
  • Digital Signal Processing experience
  • Experience working with bleeding edge technology of video and audio processing
  • Experience deploying a/v pipelines on edge devices

We are flexible! For the right candidate, we ask: What do you need to do your best work?

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Job Tags

Full time, Work at office, Flexible hours,

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