Senior Java Engineer

🕒 July 8

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $175k - $200k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2007

🏥 Healthcare

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

Healthcare • Consulting • Marketing

Wowza is a leading provider of video streaming technology, offering comprehensive end-to-end solutions for both live and on-demand (VOD) video streaming. The company's platform includes video transcoding, playback, and analytics, and it is known for its high scalability and reliability, processing over 30 million hours of live video monthly. Wowza caters to a range of clients including broadcasters, sports organizations, and religious organizations, providing robust APIs and support for embedding video into applications. Their services are particularly suitable for cloud (SaaS) environments, private cloud, and hybrid cloud streaming setups, supporting high customization and efficient streaming workflows.

📋 Description

• Design and develop core features within Wowza Streaming Engine designed for testability and scale. • Design and implement advanced transcoder workflows for new codecs and accelerators. • Design and implement highly scalable packaging workflows. • Debug and resolve customer reported issues, bugs and performance issues. • Participate in cross-functional projects from conception through deployment. • Be a resource to other team members as a streaming subject matter expert.

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of hands-on Java development in performance-critical, large-scale systems. • Deep understanding of Java concurrency and multithreading — thread pools, locks, synchronization, concurrent data structures, and designing thread-safe components for high-throughput workloads. • Strong knowledge of JVM internals including garbage collection tuning (G1, ZGC, Shenandoah), heap/off-heap memory management, and GC pause optimization for latency-sensitive applications. • Proven ability to optimize Java applications for memory, CPU, and GPU utilization using standard Java profiling and diagnostic tools. • Experience with JNI (Java Native Interface) for integrating Java with native C/C++ libraries and managing cross-boundary memory and threading safely. • Experience with Unit testing, performance testing/tuning (heap dump analysis, thread dump analysis), and debugging complex multithreaded Java applications. • 5+ years’ experience in transcoding and packaging workflows (Wowza or similar). • Deep knowledge of video codecs: H.264/AVC, H.265/HEVC, VP8/VP9, AV1. • Hands-on experience with GPU or VPU accelerated transcoding pipelines. • Extensive experience with one or more of the common streaming protocols – RTMP, RTSP, HLS, MPEG-DASH, CMAF, WebRTC. • Knowledge of content encryption and DRM. • Familiarity with video quality metrics (PSNR, SSIM, VMAF).

🏖️ Benefits

• Generous Paid Time Off • Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance (effective Day 1) • 401(k) with strong company match • Dependent Care FSA • Employer-paid Life Insurance and AD&D • Voluntary Life Insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child) • Paid Parental Leave • Short-Term and Long-Term Disability • Training & Development opportunities • Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

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