Golang / Go Job: Backend Engineer (Golang)

Backend Engineer (Golang) at Zattoo

🇩🇪 Germany › Berlin   (Posted Mar 11 2022)

Job description
The Role
Become a part of the core team that builds and extends our ads and video backend services based on state of the art technology. Collaborate with a highly skilled and passionate team of multi-national engineers to build and operate our ads and video services.

The Ads Domain Team
We are building a new team to take full ownership of our state of the art ads backend services. As a Backend Engineer one will work on building and extending services for server-side dynamic ad insertion and delivery of personalized ads at scale. The team will work closely with our Video and Playback Team to ensure delivery of the world class video experience. The ads domain team is owning a microservice architecture that handles all aspects dealing with video ads at Zattoo. The core of it is driving our fragment-level ad stitching solution. From there it is also dealing with ad ingest, adserver communication and metadata communication. We are a team of diverse software engineers specialized in video technology.

What You'll Do
Maintain and extend our current server-side ad insertion technology
Design, engineer & implement highly-available, fault-tolerant, distributed systems enhancing our core video streaming platform
Analyze and understand Zattoo’s core services and explore ways on how to efficiently scale them
Write and maintain systems that collect and preprocess large scale log data
Implement and develop improvements to platforms, infrastructure, tools and processes
Develop clean and maintainable code
Collaborate with stakeholders and engineers across the company
Become a valued member of Zattoo’s Engineering team and improve our core services

What You'll Bring
2+ years proven experience with Golang in a production environment
Experience with any of the following programming languages are also a plus: C/C++, Python, Rust
Strong knowledge of Unix/Linux platforms
Expertise in concurrent and distributed systems/web services
Good understanding of data stores, we use cassandra/scylla, clickhouse, elasticsearch, mysql
Comfortable working with remote colleagues, multidisciplinary teams and external partners
Bonus: A BS/MS degree in computer science or similar discipline
Bonus: Previously worked in a DevOps environment and worked with container management such as Kubernetes, Docker or LXC
Bonus: Experience with ads industry standards (VAST, SCTE-35) or other related products (Yospace, Google DAI, Unified Streaming)

What We Offer You
Reward: strong market competitive salary
Recharge: 30 days vacation plus public holidays
Regulate: trust-based flexible working hours and the option for remote working 8 weeks per year

Plus:
We’re sharing: Free access to the best streaming experience on the market
We’re developing: your own development budget, German classes and Zattoo all-company hack days
We’re inclusive: ‘Zattooies’ are a fun, engaged, and diverse team made up of 40 nationalities
We’re healthy: yoga classes, health checks, team sports, organic fruit, vegan options and more!
We’re responsible: we are carbon neutral, an active employee Green team, discounted BVG tickets and free bike rentals
We’re sociable: a calendar of events with fireside chats, lunches, in-house bar, BBQ’s, monthly socials, summer party and an annual off-site event

Zattoo enables our users to view indiscriminately and we reflect that in our team too. Regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, national origin, age, disability or any other characteristic protected by law we encourage everyone to apply and will give everyone equal consideration. We are an equal opportunities employer, join us and help build a diverse team dedicated to the future of TV.

Apply now!