Senior Software Engineer - Time Media Platform Team

Senior Software Engineer - Real Time Media Platform Team

Location

New York

Business Area

Engineering and CTO

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The Real Time Media Platform team is looking for a senior C++ engineer with real-time systems, network programming, or real-time media experience to help build the next generation media platform for the Bloomberg terminal. The Bloomberg terminal is an essential software system that enables the smooth operation of the Global financial market, and at its core, contains a collection of features that enable real-time media-rich communication and collaboration between financial professionals.

The mission of the team is to enhance terminal workflows through our real-time media platform. Building upon open VOIP and Video

OverIP standards and protocols like SIP and WebRTC and both open-source and proprietary media engines, we aim to tightly integrate multimedia media into core financial workflows. In the process, we hope to bring Bloomberg’s proprietary knowledge and expertise in real-time systems, compliance requirements, and other financial sector workflows to the open-source community.

Our Team:
Bloomberg data moves global financial markets, and conversations around that data are central to how markets are shaped. Through the terminal, our clients connect with an expansive global community. The need to enrich these interactions with real-time media (audio and video) is critical to maintaining Bloomberg's edge. The Real Time Media Platform team is made up of real time media and distributed networking specialists entrusted with the mission to create and scale our cutting-edge, real-time multimedia platform across the terminal and all related applications.

Our core responsibility is to continue scaling Bloomberg's real-time multimedia platform using the latest technologies and standards to meet scale, resiliency, compliance, and feature sets inherent in a fast-growing industry. We will continue integrating low latency multimedia offerings into the core suite of Bloomberg applications to make real-time audio and video as ubiquitous and practical as traditional text-based communication.

We are seeking an enthusiastic and motivated Senior Software Engineer to join our team to contribute to building out our real-time multimedia platform. Your main focus will be the development and deployment of the integrated Voice, Video, and Telephony media platform with a focus on building standard-based, interoperable, and enterprise-grade quality media services. This work demands close collaboration with multiple partners such as Application teams, Product, UX researchers, Network, and other engineering teams.

This is a phenomenal opportunity for a motivated candidate due to the visibility and impact of this product, with a significant chance to make a profound impact on a critical and rapidly expanding part of the Bloomberg ecosystem.

• Develop and enhance real-time multimedia infrastructure
• Design scalable, reliable, and maintainable backend services
• Research innovative ways to anticipate and address client needs in real-time media

• Opportunity to innovate and contribute to building and extending real-time applications infrastructure
• Chance to work on high impact, high visibility, and challenging problems in building low-latency multimedia
• Opportunity to be a part of a select few teams responsible for multimedia and real-time media features in the fintech market
• Contribute to open source

• 4+ years of experience with C++
• Strong experience with network and data transfer protocols
• Strong problem-solving and design skills
• A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, similar field of study or equivalent work experience
• Experience working with SIP, WebRTC, or similar real-time media frameworks and protocols/standards
• Deep familiarity with open source technologies like Asterisk, Free SWITCH, Kamailio and other real time media platform stacks

• Network programming and distributed computing
• Experience with having built an enterprise quality systems in the world of Real-Time Communication, both voice and video
• Prefer to have deep…