Golang Online Jobs Paying 100,000 USD a Year

Job Description

mLab is the leading database-as-a-service platform for MongoDB, with over 700,000 databases in our fleet and customers ranging from startups to Lyft, Whole Foods, and Verizon.

Our engineers work on a range of interesting technical problems related to building, operating, and orchestrating cloud infrastructure at scale.

The Opportunity

We are looking for an experienced distributed systems engineer. You'll play a lead role in building kubernetes-based container orchestration tools for managing and deploying our infrastructure. The goal is to simplify and accelerate how our software is built, deployed, and operated on public clouds.

Our team believes strongly in open source, and we will ultimately provide many of these tools back to the community.

In addition to having the opportunity to grow quickly within our business, you'll have the the chance to evangelize our tech online and at events, contribute to open source projects, and anything else that can add to our community.

About You

You enjoy building complex software systems, love coding, and value a highly collaborative environment. You are passionate about cloud infrastructure and building platforms/tools for fellow developers.

We value software engineering generalists with sound fundamentals and broad interests. Golang and k8s expertise is a plus, as is exposure to container management on AWS, Azure, and/or GCP.

Perks & Benefits

We offer a competitive salary with great benefits, including matching 401K, catered lunches, and gym/phone/Lyft perks. We’re a friendly team with a close-knit, respectful work environment.

Job Description

About Us

Brightcove is the leading online video platform that powers the video for many of the UK and the world’s largest media companies including BBC Worldwide, UKTV, Channel 4, Ford, Viacom, ESPN, and The New York Times.

As a Software Engineer, you will help deliver a service that touches millions of people around the world by serving over a billion video streams each month.

Our Team

The ‘Dynamic Delivery’ team work on a highly scalable, multi-region set of microservices that are responsible for delivering video to millions of consumers around the world.

We’re a small team, so you’ll have a high degree of autonomy and input into design decisions. We also offer a competitive salary, flexible working environment and encourage learning and career development.

Our Technology

The Dynamic Delivery platform has been developed from scratch over the past two years and is almost 100% written in Go, with functional tests written in Ruby/Cucumber and deployed using containers onto public cloud infrastructure.

You

• Have 2+ years of experience as a software engineer
• Have experience with deploying software to cloud services
• Understand the reasons for and best practices around testing and are familiar with TDD and BDD
• Have a good understanding of HTTP
• Have experience taking ownership of a service from design to deployment
• Can take into account scaling, cost and performance considerations when designing a service
• Stay abreast of developments and best practices within the technologies you use

You - Bonus Points

• Have written Golang in production
• Have used and deployed containerised software
• Have worked with CDNs
• Have experience with video streaming technologies (HLS / MPEG DASH / Microsoft Smooth Streaming).
• Have an understanding of H.264 and AAC
• Have an understanding of video container formats, specifically MP4 (and fMP4/ISOBMFF) and MPEG TS.
• Have an understanding of common DRM technologies, specifically Widevine Modular, Playready and Fairplay.

Location

Lacon House is situated in Central London, nestled between world-leading media companies and the capital's thriving tech scene.

The nearest Underground stations are Holborn and Russell Square.