Senior Software Developer

About Wowza

Wowza Media Systems is a Colorado-based global leader in video streaming softwarebacked byClearhaven

Partners(Boston, MA). Our flagship product,Wowza Streaming Engine, is one of the streaming industry’s most foundational, widely adopted, widelytrustedand often imitated media serversoftware products.

Organizationswith mission-criticalvideo rely on Wowza. Our technology helps power streaming workflows for customersincluding

ESPN,Axon,NASA, Space

X, Blue Origin,Palantirand many others. Across education, healthcare, enterprise, gaming, government and more,Wowza’ssoftware has been implemented inmore than 30,000 customervideo solutions in over 100 countries.

We are looking for a senior software developer who understands the key stages involved in processing and delivering video content. You will playa central rolein the evolution ofWowza

Streaming Engine, a corecomponentof the streaming infrastructure used by thousands of organizations. This role is ideal for someone who already works with modern video pipelines and wants to contribute directly to a highly impactful,large-scaleproduct.

• Design, develop and enhance core features of theWowza
  
  Streaming Engine withhigh levelsof reliability and performance.
• Architect and implement advanced workflows for new codecs and hardware accelerators.
• Optimizepackaging pipelines for large scale live andon-demanddelivery.
• Tune and optimize
  
  GPU or VPU accelerated transcoding workflows to meet performance,costand quality requirements.
• Diagnose and resolve complex issues involving video protocols,pipelines and media formats.
• Contribute to internal standards,format sand best practices in video streaming.
• Collaborate with product,support and customer facing teams.
• Act as a video technology expert for other engineering teams.

• 5+ years of experience in transcoding and packaging workflows.
• Strong mastery of video codecs including AVC H.264, HEVC H.265, VP8, VP9 and AV1.
• Demonstrated experience with hardware accelerated transcoding (NVIDIA, Intel,AMDor equivalent).
• Strong knowledge of protocols and formats such as RTMP, RTSP, HLS, MPEG DASH,CMAFand WebRTC.
• Solid understanding of content encryption and DRM workflows.
• Familiarity with video quality metrics including PSNR,SSIMand VMAF.
• Strong programming skills in Javaand inC or C plusplus, including JNI based integration.
• Experience designing major components of a complex or distributed application.
• Experience in unit testing, performancetuningand debugging multithreaded Java applications.

• Contributions to open-source video projects.
• Direct experience with
  
  Wowza
  
  Streaming Engine orWowza
  
  Video.
• Experience with CI CD pipelines and automated testing environments.
• Experience creating public APIs or SDKs.

• Work on a foundational product in the global video ecosystem.
• Direct impact on the quality,performance and reliability of production streaming workflows.
• Senior,pragmaticand collaborative engineering team.
• Flexible work options from Montreal or anywhere in Canada.

We offer a competitive compensation package and a comprehensive set of benefits designed to support you and your family. While specifics may vary by country, for Canada you can expect:

• Competitive base salary aligned to the Montreal market and your experience
• Generous paid time off and company holidays
• Comprehensive health benefits
• Retirement savings program with company contribution
• Paid parental leave
• Short term andlong term disability coverage
• Training and professional development opportunities
• Employeeassistanceprogram and wellness support

Details of the benefits package for this role will be discussed during the interview process.

AtWowza, you will be part of a fast paced, mission driven team that powersrealworld, high impact use cases, from live streaming graduations to supporting critical monitoring and decision workflows. We encourage ownership,collaboration,and curiosity, and we take pride in building software that other engineers love to run in production.

Wowza Media Systems does not discriminate on the basis ofrace, sex, color, religion, age, national origin, marital…