Video Processing Engineer

Twitch is the world’s leading video platform and community for gamers, with more than 100 million visitors per month. We connect gamers from around the world by allowing them to broadcast, watch, and chat with each other. Twitch’s live and on-demand video platform forms the backbone of a distribution network for video game broadcasters including pro players, tournaments, leagues, developers and gaming media organizations.

Video processing and delivery is one of Twitch’s core competencies. We operate one of the largest private CDNs and deliver live video to millions of concurrent viewers. Our ingest system processes 4 years of video every hour. As a video pipeline engineer you’ll be working on the core transcoding and transmuxing software which produces all of the video data we serve to our users as well as the playback engines that ultimately consume this content and render it to viewers. This will include both ongoing maintenance as well as future research and development projects, all in the interest of providing the best viewing experience possible to our users.

* Work on media processing and playback tools and systems * Maintain and evolve existing C++ codebase * Learn, understand and implement existing and new industry standard * Write maintainable code with extensive test coverage, working in a professional software engineering environment (with source control, dev/stage/prod release cycle, continuous deployment). * Collaborate across the company to define, design and build and improve critical video systems

**Requirements** * Strong C and C++ development skills * Knowledge of core video concepts such as codecs and containers * Knowledge of core networking protocols such as UDP/TCP and HTTP * Minimum two years of experience developing low level/cross platform software with C and C++ **Bonus Points** * Know your way around a hex editor * Have created a video or image codec for fun * Your code always handles integer overflows * You believe a millisecond in an eternity * Familiarity with media protocols such as RTMP, HLS, DASH * You’ve written Go code before