Software Engineer

Software Engineer - MMDOverview:Limelight's Multi-device Multimedia Delivery (MMD) team focuses on delivering customer source audio/video content to all devices across the globe via real-time transcoding and packaging into all major HTTP adaptive bitrate streaming protocols. As part of the MMD team, the Software Engineer will assist in all aspects of the software development life-cycle, from communicating with product management through development, QA, and deployment/maintenance. Essential Functions:

• Passionate and self-motivated
• Work in a fast-paced, collaborative, and distributed environment while providing exceptional visibility across all organizations including actively participating in daily scrums, and all communication methods
• Drive efficiency improvements in the deployment and management of systems and services
• Support and maintain existing applications and platforms adding new features and improving performance and operability, including monitoring, automation and configuration management.
• Design, implement, evaluate, and recommend solutions to complex problems in a large multi-tiered enterprise environment
• Collaborate and add value through participation in peer code reviews, providing comments and suggestions and enforcing coding standards
• Maintain a positive demeanor and a high level of professionalism at all times
• Ability to travel occasionally as necessary
• Other duties as assigned by management

Minimum Experience / Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience
• 2+ yrs experience in C/C++ ,Unix or Linux systems
• Web services with implementation practice of HTTP, REST, XML, etc...
• Version Control such as Git, Continuous Integration such as Jenkins, Configuration management such as SaltStack
• Excellent coordination, planning and written and verbal communication skills
• Comfortable working within a distributed team environment

Valued Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Knowledge of digital video standards such as
• MP4 and ISM containers
• h.264, h.265, and aac codecs
• Adaptive Bitrate protocols: HLS, DASH, MSS, HDS
• Experience with Apache or NGINX modules
• Some experience with Go FreeBSD
• TCP networking fundamentals, and use of tools such as tcpdump, wireshark, etc...
• Ability to document technical information and track tasks and projects on a daily basis and in a clear and concise manner.