Principal Media Engineer (Video & Audio Codecs) – Fully Remote Zencastr Podcasting is Hard Enou[...]
Descrizione dell'offerta
Company: Zencastr
Location: Remote (Global)
Employment Type: Full-Time
Overview
Zencastr is at the forefront of the creator economy, empowering podcasters and content creators with cutting-edge media technology. We are seeking an elite Senior Media Engineer to architect the core of our high-performance audio and video processing engine. This is a pivotal role for an expert who is passionate about building robust, low-latency streaming solutions and wants to define the future of digital content creation. If you thrive on solving complex technical challenges in media transcoding, streaming, and codec optimization, we invite you to join our world-class, fully distributed team.
Key Responsibilities:
Lead the design, implementation, and optimization of major software components for our media pipeline, focusing on high-traffic, low-latency applications.
Develop and maintain high-performance C/C++ libraries for advanced audio and video processing and transcoding.
Dive deep into the intricacies of media codecs (H. 264, VP8), containers, and streaming protocols to enhance performance, quality, and reliability.
Architect scalable systems and features, ensuring robust and efficient performance for a global user base.
Collaborate within a fast-paced, agile environment, contributing to technical specifications and advocating for engineering best practices.
Champion code quality, security, and performance optimization across the engineering organization.
Required Qualifications:
Minimum of 5 years of professional experience in advanced C/C++ development.
Expert-level knowledge of media technologies, including codecs (H. 264, VP8), containers, I-frames, P-frames, NALU, and streaming protocols.
Strong foundation in computer science fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, time complexity, memory management).
Demonstrable experience in performance optimization for high-throughput, low-latency systems.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to lead technical designs and mentor team members.
What Sets You Apart (Preferred Skills):
A proven passion for building high-performance, mission-critical applications.
Experience with Digital Signal Processing (DSP).
Hands-on experience with deploying audio/video pipelines on edge devices.
Significant contributions to open-source media projects.
Familiarity with TypeScript for occasional front-end or API integration tasks.
Experience working in a fast-growing, agile startup environment.
Why Join Zencastr?
Impactful Work: Join a profitable, high-growth company and make a direct impact on a product used by creators worldwide.
Generous Compensation: Receive a competitive salary and a significant equity package.
Work-Life Balance: Enjoy a fully remote, flexible work environment with 4 weeks of paid time off (PTO).
Top-Tier Team: Collaborate with world-class engineers, designers, and PhDs in a supportive, distributed team.
Professional Growth: Benefit from a continuing education credit and a budget to set up your ideal home office.
Excellent Benefits: Comprehensive health insurance and other perks designed to support you.
Are you ready to build the future of media creation? We’re looking for the best talent and are flexible for the right candidate.
Tagged as: DSP, H.264, Low-Latency Streaming, Remote C++ Jobs, Senior Media Engineer, Transcoding, Video Codec Engineer, VP8
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