Golang Job: Staff Software Engineer (Golang)

Brightcove is looking to hire a Staff Software Engineer to help build out new services as part of the Brightcove Video Cloud. These new services will receive millions of requests per day from millions of viewers. This is an exciting position with high visibility across the company and growth potential.

Job Responsibilities

• Be a major contributor to the development of these new Brightcove services, including contributions to code, design, pipeline, and infrastructure as code.
• Working with other engineers, deliver new services to production, build monitoring and alerts to ensure the service runs smoothly in production.
• Help mentor and grow more junior engineers on the team.
• Take into account scaling, cost and performance considerations when designing a service.
• Stay abreast of developments and best practices within the tech industry and video.
• Work with Customer Support and Account Management to respond to customer impacting issues.
• Work alongside other teams to develop cross-project solutions and drive best practices across the organization.

Qualifications/Experience

• 8+ years of software development experience on REST or backend services.
• Experience delivering and supporting high scale SaaS services leveraging public cloud services such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), including a practical knowledge of the capabilities such as APIs, regions, instance types, and managed services such as auto-scalers, load-balancers, storage systems, queues, caches, and lambda functions.
• Experience with building production services in Golang.
• Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL/RDS preferred).
• Experience with distributed, in-memory caches.
• Ability to train and inspire other software engineers to innovate and collaborate with a solutions-focused approach.
• Positive attitude with an open mind to learning new ways of learning and innovating.
• Understanding of the full software delivery lifecycle, from conceptualization through delivery and all steps in between.
• Experience working with version control, continuous deployment and performance monitoring tools, such as Git, TeamCity, Jenkins, SumoLogic, DataDog, and CloudHealth.
• Experience with ad sell-side providers and video/media processing strongly preferred.
• Experience with agile methodologies.
• Understanding of building, delivering and operating internet-scale, distributed, high availability systems.
• Ability to adapt to changing priorities, market conditions and a transformative tech environment.
• Experience with Behavior and Test-Driven Development.
• Knowledge of containers and container-based deployment, preferably Kubernetes.
• Work Arrangement - Remote, On-site, or Hybrid. Prefer Hybrid/On-site in GDL.

About Brightcove

Brightcove is a team of smart, passionate people who are revolutionizing the way organizations deliver video. We're hyped up about storytelling, and about helping people connect, share experiences, and view the world. Bottom line: video is the world's most compelling, exciting medium, and Brightcove exists to demonstrate that video means business.

As the industry leader in this space, we empower our customers to deliver top-notch video experiences to audiences on every screen in bold and innovative ways. When video is done right, it can have a powerful and lasting effect. Hearts open. Minds change. Creativity thrives. Since 2004, Brightcove has been supporting customers that are some of the largest media companies, enterprises, events, and non-profit organizations in the world. There are over 600 Brightcovers globally, each of us representing our unique talents and passions and we have built a culture that values individual empowerment, excellence and collaboration. This culture enables us to develop technologies once thought impossible, provide customer support without parallel or excuses, and leverage the expertise and resources of a global infrastructure. We take our video seriously, and we take great pride in doing it as one team.

Working at Brightcove

As the undisputed global leader in powering premium video for our customers, Brightcove recruits and retains highly qualified and motivated individuals, creating an environment where people can innovate and achieve their best, and we reward them for their performance by giving them the opportunity to share in the company's success. We offer competitive benefits and compensation packages.

This role is designated to be located in our brand new Guadalajara office which is in Puerta de Hierro, part of the metropolitan area of Guadalajara. We offer 3 work arrangements: 100% remote, hybrid, or onsite. The office has been designed with the latest technology, an open yet focused working space layout and employees enjoy access to stocked kitchens with daily catered lunches and social activities. We have plenty of opportunities to meet your colleagues around the globe and we also celebrate a variety of personal interests with organized groups and clubs including an Employee Action Committee, Women of Brightcove, Pride of Brightcove, Parents of Brightcove … and more to come!

If you've gotten all the way to the bottom of this description, thank you for your interest in Brightcove! If this role sounds like something that is exciting to you please don't hesitate to apply, even if you don't meet all of our qualifications. We recognize that no candidate is perfect and Brightcove would love to have the chance to get to know you.

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

Send us your resume if you are interested and want to learn more!

**Please submit your resume in English to be considered for this role.**

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