Sr. Software Backend Engineer, Video Streaming Platform

Apple-posted 2 months ago
$181,100 - $318,400/Yr
Full-time • Senior
Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing
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Join our team and be a key architect in building the next generation of our core software systems! We're looking for a passionate Sr. Software Backend Engineer to create exceptional user experiences and scalable, well-architected solutions that drive our business forward. If you thrive on solving complex challenges and mentoring others, this is the place for you.

  • Own the end-to-end backend architecture: ingest, live/VOD encoding orchestration, packaging/manifest services, DRM/entitlements, playback APIs, and multi-region failover.
  • Integrate with enterprise identity and policy: SSO (OIDC/SAML), audit trails, and policy enforcement for compliance and least-privilege.
  • Engineer for peak events: capacity modeling, autoscaling, load shedding, graceful degradation, and DR playbooks that sustain company-wide concurrency spikes.
  • Optimize delivery for enterprise networks: internal CDNs/edge caches, multi-CDN strategies, VPN-aware routing, caching, and bandwidth efficiency.
  • Build reusable platform abstractions and APIs that enable comms, HR/training, and product teams to publish, schedule, and measure content safely and reliably.
  • Partner with Security, IT/Networking, Client/Player, Data/Analytics, Compliance/Legal, and Comms to align roadmap and ensure policy, privacy, and accessibility (captions/ASR) are first-class.
  • Lead incident response for live events; drive postmortems and systemic reliability improvements.
  • Make build-vs-buy decisions and vendor integrations where appropriate; negotiate SLAs and own total cost of ownership.
  • Mentor engineers, lead design reviews/RFCs, and elevate engineering standards across teams.
  • 10+ years building large-scale distributed backend systems.
  • 5+ years of Java development.
  • 5+ years of API development.
  • 3+ years as Staff/Tech Lead owning critical, multi-team platforms.
  • Technical degree or equivalent experience building large-scale distributed backends.
  • Deep experience with fault-tolerant distributed systems, multi-region architectures, idempotency, backpressure, and resiliency patterns (circuit breaking, bulkheads).
  • Containers, orchestration, and IaC: Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Terraform (or equivalent).
  • Cloud proficiency (AWS): compute, networking, IAM, object storage; strong cost-awareness and capacity planning.
  • AWS media services, such as AWS Live & AWS Media Package.
  • Datastores and messaging: SQL and NoSQL (e.g., Oracle, DynamoDB, MongoDB), caching (Redis), and streams (Kafka/Pub/Sub).
  • Enterprise identity and security: OAuth2/OIDC/SAML, RBAC/ABAC, token-based auth, encryption in transit/at rest, auditing.
  • Strong observability and operational excellence: metrics/logs/traces (OpenTelemetry), SLI/SLO/error budgets, on-call and incident management.
  • Codecs/containers (H.264/AVC, H.265/HEVC, AV1; MP4/fMP4) and live ingest protocols (SRT, RIST, RTMP).
  • CDN and edge: internal cache hierarchy, multi-CDN switching, token auth, and cache-control for enterprise networks.
  • DRM technologies like FairPlay, Widevine, PlayReady.
  • Accessibility and compliance: captions, translations, WCAG; knowledge governance, eDiscovery/legal hold.
  • Data/analytics for QoE and engagement; familiarity with Hadoop/Ozone is a plus.
  • Automation to reduce operational toil; practical use of GenAI to boost developer productivity within security constraints.
  • Zero Trust networking concepts, device posture/attestation, and MDM integration.
  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage.
  • Retirement benefits.
  • A range of discounted products and free services.
  • Reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition.
  • Discretionary bonuses or commission payments.
  • Relocation assistance.
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