Senior Backend Engineer - Media Streaming Platform

Senior Backend Engineer :

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Backend Engineer to join our media delivery team. You will be responsible for building, optimizing, and maintaining high-performance microservices tailored for video streaming and high-concurrency environments. This role requires deep experience with Java (8+), Spring Boot, and a strong background in video content delivery, AWS cloud infrastructure, and CI/CD automation.

Responsibilities :

- Design, develop, deploy, and maintain RESTful microservices using Java 8+ and Spring Boot, optimized for media delivery and high.

- Integrate video processing, DRM (e.g., Widevine), and CDN systems to enable adaptive streaming.

- Implement backend services for content ingestion, encoding pipelines, metadata management, and

playback support.

- Collaborate with frontend (web/app) teams to define APIs for playback, user profiles, watchlists, and recommendations.

- Build and optimize services for scalability using AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, CloudFront, Elastic Transcoder)

- Containerize services with Docker; deploy on ECS or Kubernetes/EKS.

- Set up CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline).

- Monitor video service health and performance using CloudWatch, Prometheus, and Grafana.

- Ensure fault-tolerance with patterns like circuit-breakers (e.g., Netflix Hystrix/Eureka), retries, and auto-scaling.

- Collaborate with ML teams to support recommendation engines and personalized metadata features.

- Enforce security standards (authentication, authorization, encryption, IAM).

- Mentor junior engineers; drive code reviews and architecture discussions.

- Hands-on with AWS services, especially for content delivery and scalability.