Staff Platform Engineer

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🕒 April 20

🏄 California, New York – Remote

🏄 California – Remote 🗽 New York – Remote

💵 $235k - $265k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🏗️ Platform Engineer

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Mux

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51 - 200 employees

🔌 API

☁️ SaaS

📱 Media

💰 $105M Series D on 2021-04

API • SaaS • Media

Mux is an Internet video API provider that offers a cost-effective video infrastructure for businesses of all sizes. Trusted for streaming billions of minutes of video daily, Mux enables developers to build live and on-demand video experiences with unique API integrations. The platform provides everything necessary for creating beautiful web players and offers insights and real-time stream analytics to enhance viewer engagement. Mux addresses challenges in video streaming, helping businesses launch video features rapidly, customize players, and monitor streaming performance at scale. It's used by top brands to improve user experience and provides a straightforward integration process, making video work seamlessly across applications.

📋 Description

• Lead the architecture and evolution of core platform systems. Define and drive the technical direction of our container orchestration, cloud infrastructure, and CI/CD platforms to meet the long-term needs of the business • Own cross-team technical strategy. Identify high-leverage investments, align stakeholders, and execute on initiatives that span multiple teams and products • Build and evolve shared platform abstractions. Create scalable, well-designed interfaces and tooling that enable product teams to move faster • Drive improvements to engineering processes. Lead the definition and rollout of practices that improve reliability, efficiency, and scalability (e.g., deployment strategies, incident response, architecture reviews) • Shape and prioritize technical investments. Define and advocate for infrastructure and technical debt initiatives across teams, aligning them with product and architectural goals • Debug and resolve complex production issues. Provide leadership during incidents and tackle the most challenging problems across the full infrastructure stack • Mentor and influence engineers across the organization. Raise the bar for technical decision-making, design quality, and operational excellence

🎯 Requirements

• Proven track record of designing and evolving large-scale, business-critical infrastructure systems, particularly Kubernetes platforms • Strong ability to operate at a systems and architectural level, making decisions that impact multiple teams and long-term business direction • Deep experience with Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD systems • Strong software engineering skills (preferably in the Go ecosystem) for building reliable and maintainable systems • Deep knowledge of networking and systems fundamentals (TCP/UDP, HTTP, TLS, DNS, Linux) • Demonstrated ability to lead ambiguous, cross-functional initiatives and drive them to successful outcomes • Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to influence both engineers and engineering leadership

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible PTO + 11 company holidays • Weekly no-meeting days + quarterly focus weeks • Healthy work-life balance encouraged • Competitive health, dental, and vision insurance • Fully funded fertility benefits • HSA available, compatible with high deductible plan only ($100 per single employee/month & $200 per family/month employer contribution) • FSA available • Short-term and long-term disability insurance • Group life insurance • Travel accident insurance • Employee Assistance Program (EAP) • Medical support concierge service • 401(k) • Paid parental leave • Investment in career growth through professional development stipend • Reimbursements for headphones, cell phones, device upgrades, and SVoD services of Mux customers • Lunch reimbursement program