Senior Software Engineer - Time Media Platform Team

Senior Software Engineer - Real Time Media Platform Team

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The Bloomberg terminal is an essential software system that enables the smooth operation of the global financial market. At its core, it contains a collection of features that enable real‑time media‑rich communication and collaboration between financial professionals. 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 build the next generation media platform for the Bloomberg terminal.

Our mission 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 and bring Bloomberg’s proprietary knowledge and expertise in real‑time systems, compliance requirements, and other financial sector workflows to the open‑source community.

$/yr - $/yr

Location:

New York

Business Area:
Engineering and CTO

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The Real Time Media Platform team is dedicated to creating and scaling our cutting‑edge, real‑time multimedia platform across the terminal and all related applications. From building and deploying the integrated Voice, Video, and Telephony media platform to advancing media services such as recording, speech‑to‑text, streaming, and computer vision, we aim to make real‑time audio and video as ubiquitous and practical as traditional text‑based communication.

• 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, a 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 system in the world of Real‑Time Communication, both voice and video
• Prefer to have deep familiarity of open source real‑time media platform technologies like SRTP, XMPP, Matrix
• Experience with media formats (MP4, WebM), codecs (VP8, VP9, Opus)
• Any open source contributions
• A mindset of “I am not done till we are all done” team player attitude

Salary Range = 160000 - 240000 USD Annually + Benefits + Bonus

We offer one of the most comprehensive and generous benefits plans available and include a range of total rewards such as merit increases, incentive compensation (exempt roles only), paid holidays, paid time off, medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability benefits, 401(k) + match, life insurance, and various wellness programs.

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