Video Infrastructure Engineer

We're a fast-growing startup founded at Harvard's Innovation Labs. Our mission is to move the world of work from the Earth 🌎 to the Cloud ☁️. We're doing this by building the world's first MMOW ('massively multiplayer online workplace') where the world's best teams work from, form communities, and socialize.

People spend the majority of their lives working - and there is no reason it shouldn't be delightful, functional, and all online. This would let people live their own lives on their own terms, wherever in the world they'd like. They'd be able to spend more time with loved ones, they'd be able to travel, and we as a group could then completely eliminate the need to commute into busy, expensive city centers. Once we start to make digital work wonderful and connected, we make remote work something that companies embrace and encourage. At scale - imagine what that does for our collective carbon footprint. We could really save the world here, people!

To do this, we've been hard at work building what will be a massive, open-world workplace, with private buildings and community, social spaces alike. Think 'World of Warcraft', but for work (World of Workcraft, anyone? ...No one? Ugh fine 😑). This is a place where business moves, community is made, and social events happen.

We'd love for you to join us! ⚔️

Be comfortable working with multiple languages: TypeScript, JavaScript, and C++

Help implement the technology direction, vision, and strategy to enable massive scale.

Participate in technology evaluation for continuous process improvement.

Work as a team with different programmers from different parts of the world. Organization and excellent communication is fundamental.

Be creative in solving technical problems, and comfortable breaking ground and creating new solutions.

Commit to improving your communication skills every day.

7+ years of software development experience, including working with cloud platforms.

Proficiency with TypeScript and JavaScript.

Deep understanding of WebRTC protocols and operation (STUN/TURN, SDP, RTP/RTCP, congestion control, video/audio codecs and their use in WebRTC).

Familiar with WebRTC architecture and components (SFUs, TURN servers, cloud architecture, client libraries, browsers).

Familiar with video/audio codecs and their use in WEBRTC.

An understanding of live video streaming and video on-demand workflows, including ingest, transcoding, delivery, and playback.

Working knowledge of open source SFU libraries like Jitsi.

Working knowledge of open source video tools like FFmpeg.

Experience in the following domains: audio/video streaming or other real-time computing application, open-source video processing tools, cross-platform development in several CPU/operating system environments and network protocols.

Experience in building systems at large scale in a production environment, managing hundreds of compute instances.

Experience in Cloud API development.

Bonus - experience in multithreaded and asynchronous programming.

Bonus - experience with C++ and building SFU servers.