Rust Jobs for Rustaceans

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain media encoding pipelines and live streaming workflows for both cloud and on-premise environments.
• Build infrastructure, tools, and real-time monitoring systems to support live video delivery and operational visibility.
• Automate quality control and alerting mechanisms to detect and resolve streaming issues rapidly.
• Partner closely with the Live Broadcast Operations team to improve operational efficiency and stream reliability.
• Provide engineering support during live events to ensure broadcast quality.
• Adapt to flexible working hours aligned with live event schedules.

Requirements:

• 4+ years of professional experience building scalable backend systems.
• 3+ years of experience with live streaming workflows and infrastructure.
• Proficient in Java; experience with Go, Python, JavaScript, or Rust is a plus.
• Experience with scripting and automation tools.
• Deep knowledge of digital video fundamentals, compression (AVC, HEVC, DD+, Atmos, HDR), distribution formats (MPEG-TS, HLS, DASH), and signaling (SCTE-35, ESNI).
• Familiarity with video transport protocols such as RTP, RTMP, SRT, UDP, Zixi, and RIST.
• Experience with container formats such as MP4 (ISOBMFF) and CMAF, including segmenting, muxing, and stream packaging for live and on-demand delivery.
• Understanding of advertisement insertion workflows and DRM (Fairplay, PlayReady, Widevine).
• Strong debugging, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

Nice-to-have:

• Experience with encoding ladders, video compression tuning, and quality optimization.
• Proficiency with AWS, Linux/Windows CLI, and open-source multimedia frameworks (e.g., FFmpeg, GStreamer).
• Familiarity with contribution hardware and signal processing in baseband or ST 2110 workflows.