Video Software Engineer | Mux | Remote (United States)
Posted 2025-09-08
Remote, USA
Full Time
Immediate Start
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">About Mux</strong></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Mux is video for developers. Our mission is to democratize video by solving the hard problems developers face when building video: video encoding and streaming (Mux Video), video monitoring (Mux Data), and more. Video is a huge part of people’s lives, and we want to help make it better.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">We’re committed to building a healthy team that welcomes diverse backgrounds and experiences. We want people who care about our mission, are ready to grow, believe in our values (from Be Human to Turn Customers Into Fans), and want to improve the people around them.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">You’ll join a <a href="https://mux.com/team/" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">tight-knit team</a> with experience at places like Google, YouTube, Twitch, Reddit, Zencoder, Fastly, and more. Our founders previously started (and sold) Zencoder, an early leader in cloud video technology, and authored Video.js, the biggest HTML5 video player on the web. We organize <a href="https://demuxed.com/" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Demuxed</a>, the premiere conference for video engineers in the world.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">We’re backed by top investors like Coatue, Accel, Andreessen Horowitz, and Y Combinator. You’ll get to work with amazing companies: hundreds of startups, plus Strava, Patreon, Vimeo, Robinhood, PBS, and Equinox. Customers, large and small, love working with us and love our team.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">We are building something big together. We’d love to hear from you!</p>
<h3 class=" text-white font-semibold text-lg mb-2"><strong class=" font-semibold">About the Role</strong></h3>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">As a Video Software Engineer at Mux, you will play a key role in building Mux’s next-generation Video products that power delightful user experiences for millions worldwide.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">You will lead and execute complex projects across our Video stack and infrastructure, handling hundreds of thousands of videos ingested and more than a billion encodes per month using our proprietary just-in-time transcoding architecture. You will also help chart the technical direction of our platform and product offerings and work closely with the rest of the engineering team to advance how we build software collaboratively.</p>
<h3 class=" text-white font-semibold text-lg mb-2"><strong class=" font-semibold">What You’ll Do</strong></h3>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Work cross-functionally with product, customer success, and other engineering teams to execute on product and business strategy and build cutting-edge Video products that our customers will love.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Contribute to the full development cycle: technical design, development, test, experimentation, analysis, launch & on-call. You’ll review code and design docs, give feedback on product specs, and run your code.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Take accountability for the planning and delivery of projects, both as a hands-on contributor and architect and as a facilitator.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Bring ideas and directly influence your team’s roadmap, collaborating closely with cross-functional stakeholders, especially regarding Video features and functionality.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Build & promote best practices in your team for availability, reliability, and production readiness.</span></li>
</ul>
<h3 class=" text-white font-semibold text-lg mb-2"><strong class=" font-semibold">Who you are</strong></h3>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">We are hiring mid to staff-level engineers.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">4+ years of experience in production Backend & Video Engineering using Golang, C, C++, or other similar languages, with a successful track record of contributing to sizable projects from start to finish with end-user impact.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Expertise in building and operating distributed video systems in a service-oriented architecture, including best practices for fault tolerance, latency, and observability.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">A track record of writing high-quality, maintainable code across multiple services & team boundaries.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Solid operational experience with Kubernetes, monitoring tools (we use Grafana & Prometheus), databases (we use CockroachDB, Clickhouse, & Redis) and data streaming technologies (we use Kafka).</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Strongly preferred: In-depth experience building integrated Video products using open-source libraries like ffmpeg or libav, and ideally, direct contributions to them. You also know what PSNR, VMAF & SSIM are and how to move those. Solid knowledge of different video codecs, encoding, profiles, and compatibility, and a track record of debugging, fixing & optimizing encoding-related issues end to end.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">In our commitment to provide transparency with candidates, we openly share base pay ranges for all job postings within the United States, regardless of the state. These pay ranges are established using standardized criteria, including job function, level, and location. They’re also benchmarked against similar companies in a similar stage of growth. The starting base pay for this position is between $195K-$240K . Actual pay is influenced by various factors such as location, skills, depth of experience, and internal equity.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><em>If you don’t have all of these requirements but think your experience could be a great fit, that’s okay! Please apply and we can talk about what’s most needed in the role.</em></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">U.S. Benefits</strong></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">You’d join an amazing team from places like Google/YouTube, Amazon/Twitch, Facebook/Oculus, Reddit, Brightcove, Bain, and the BBC. We have a supportive culture that cares about both excellent work and work-life balance.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">We are<a href="https://mux.com/blog/remote-at-mux/" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"> remote-equal</a>, with an office space in Downtown San Francisco and London.</p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Flexible PTO + 11 company holidays</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Weekly no-meeting days + quarterly focus weeks</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Healthy work-life balance encouraged</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Competitive health, dental, and vision insurance (100% employee and 65% dependent premium coverage)</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Fully funded fertility benefits</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">HSA available, compatible with high deductible plan only ($100 per single employee/month & $200 per family/month employer contribution)</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">FSA available</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Short-term and long-term disability insurance</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Group life insurance</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Travel accident insurance</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Employee Assistance Program (EAP)</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Medical support concierge service</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">401(k)</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Paid parental leave</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Investment in career growth through professional development stipend</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Reimbursements for headphones, cell phones, device upgrades, and SVoD services of Mux customers</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Lunch reimbursement program</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Mux is an Equal Opportunity employer committed to building a diverse company. We believe diversity makes us better, and we strive to be inclusive and equitable. That’s why we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status or disability status.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Mux is video for developers. Our mission is to democratize video by solving the hard problems developers face when building video: video encoding and streaming (Mux Video), video monitoring (Mux Data), and more. Video is a huge part of people’s lives, and we want to help make it better.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">We’re committed to building a healthy team that welcomes diverse backgrounds and experiences. We want people who care about our mission, are ready to grow, believe in our values (from Be Human to Turn Customers Into Fans), and want to improve the people around them.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">You’ll join a <a href="https://mux.com/team/" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">tight-knit team</a> with experience at places like Google, YouTube, Twitch, Reddit, Zencoder, Fastly, and more. Our founders previously started (and sold) Zencoder, an early leader in cloud video technology, and authored Video.js, the biggest HTML5 video player on the web. We organize <a href="https://demuxed.com/" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Demuxed</a>, the premiere conference for video engineers in the world.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">We’re backed by top investors like Coatue, Accel, Andreessen Horowitz, and Y Combinator. You’ll get to work with amazing companies: hundreds of startups, plus Strava, Patreon, Vimeo, Robinhood, PBS, and Equinox. Customers, large and small, love working with us and love our team.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">We are building something big together. We’d love to hear from you!</p>
<h3 class=" text-white font-semibold text-lg mb-2"><strong class=" font-semibold">About the Role</strong></h3>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">As a Video Software Engineer at Mux, you will play a key role in building Mux’s next-generation Video products that power delightful user experiences for millions worldwide.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">You will lead and execute complex projects across our Video stack and infrastructure, handling hundreds of thousands of videos ingested and more than a billion encodes per month using our proprietary just-in-time transcoding architecture. You will also help chart the technical direction of our platform and product offerings and work closely with the rest of the engineering team to advance how we build software collaboratively.</p>
<h3 class=" text-white font-semibold text-lg mb-2"><strong class=" font-semibold">What You’ll Do</strong></h3>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Work cross-functionally with product, customer success, and other engineering teams to execute on product and business strategy and build cutting-edge Video products that our customers will love.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Contribute to the full development cycle: technical design, development, test, experimentation, analysis, launch & on-call. You’ll review code and design docs, give feedback on product specs, and run your code.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Take accountability for the planning and delivery of projects, both as a hands-on contributor and architect and as a facilitator.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Bring ideas and directly influence your team’s roadmap, collaborating closely with cross-functional stakeholders, especially regarding Video features and functionality.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Build & promote best practices in your team for availability, reliability, and production readiness.</span></li>
</ul>
<h3 class=" text-white font-semibold text-lg mb-2"><strong class=" font-semibold">Who you are</strong></h3>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">We are hiring mid to staff-level engineers.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">4+ years of experience in production Backend & Video Engineering using Golang, C, C++, or other similar languages, with a successful track record of contributing to sizable projects from start to finish with end-user impact.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Expertise in building and operating distributed video systems in a service-oriented architecture, including best practices for fault tolerance, latency, and observability.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">A track record of writing high-quality, maintainable code across multiple services & team boundaries.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Solid operational experience with Kubernetes, monitoring tools (we use Grafana & Prometheus), databases (we use CockroachDB, Clickhouse, & Redis) and data streaming technologies (we use Kafka).</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Strongly preferred: In-depth experience building integrated Video products using open-source libraries like ffmpeg or libav, and ideally, direct contributions to them. You also know what PSNR, VMAF & SSIM are and how to move those. Solid knowledge of different video codecs, encoding, profiles, and compatibility, and a track record of debugging, fixing & optimizing encoding-related issues end to end.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">In our commitment to provide transparency with candidates, we openly share base pay ranges for all job postings within the United States, regardless of the state. These pay ranges are established using standardized criteria, including job function, level, and location. They’re also benchmarked against similar companies in a similar stage of growth. The starting base pay for this position is between $195K-$240K . Actual pay is influenced by various factors such as location, skills, depth of experience, and internal equity.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><em>If you don’t have all of these requirements but think your experience could be a great fit, that’s okay! Please apply and we can talk about what’s most needed in the role.</em></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">U.S. Benefits</strong></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">You’d join an amazing team from places like Google/YouTube, Amazon/Twitch, Facebook/Oculus, Reddit, Brightcove, Bain, and the BBC. We have a supportive culture that cares about both excellent work and work-life balance.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">We are<a href="https://mux.com/blog/remote-at-mux/" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"> remote-equal</a>, with an office space in Downtown San Francisco and London.</p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Flexible PTO + 11 company holidays</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Weekly no-meeting days + quarterly focus weeks</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Healthy work-life balance encouraged</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Competitive health, dental, and vision insurance (100% employee and 65% dependent premium coverage)</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Fully funded fertility benefits</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">HSA available, compatible with high deductible plan only ($100 per single employee/month & $200 per family/month employer contribution)</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">FSA available</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Short-term and long-term disability insurance</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Group life insurance</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Travel accident insurance</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Employee Assistance Program (EAP)</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Medical support concierge service</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">401(k)</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Paid parental leave</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Investment in career growth through professional development stipend</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Reimbursements for headphones, cell phones, device upgrades, and SVoD services of Mux customers</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Lunch reimbursement program</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Mux is an Equal Opportunity employer committed to building a diverse company. We believe diversity makes us better, and we strive to be inclusive and equitable. That’s why we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status or disability status.</p>