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🕒 April 22

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Zencoder

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

11 - 50 employees

Founded 2010

☁️ SaaS

📱 Media

🔌 API

💰 Venture Round on 2014-01

SaaS • Media • API

Zencoder is a cloud-based video encoding platform designed to facilitate the creation and delivery of video content to audiences worldwide. Known for its rapid transcoding capabilities, Zencoder offers industry-leading reliability and supports an extensive range of input and output file formats for seamless video streaming across all devices. Its advanced Context Aware Encoding technology optimizes compression and adaptive bitrate streaming, reducing costs associated with bandwidth, storage, and encoding. With a pay-as-you-go pricing model and easy integration features, Zencoder caters to both small and large-scale video distribution needs, ensuring high-quality service with minimal upfront investment.

📋 Description

• Shape the platform and infrastructure that everything else runs on • Improve the full dev loop: local development, CI/CD, deployment, and production feedback • Define and drive standards around testing, IaC, observability, and secure delivery • Build shared tooling, templates, and golden paths • Own secure delivery end-to-end • Stay ahead of the shifting security landscape • Shape repos and tooling so coding agents can navigate them efficiently • Measure impact against DORA metrics and qualitative signals from engineering teams

🎯 Requirements

• Strong software engineering background • Experience designing and building internal platforms • Deep experience with CI/CD, automated testing, IaC, and developer tooling • Strong grasp of modern software security and secure delivery practices (shift-left / SecDevOps) • A product mindset toward internal tooling • Real fluency with AI coding agents • Understanding e2e test frameworks such as Playwright is a big plus.

🏖️ Benefits

• Shape the Future of Software Creation: We’re not just improving how developers write code — we’re redefining how ideas turn into reality. • Massive Impact, Real Ownership: At Zencoder, you’ll have full visibility into how your work moves the product and the company forward. • ICs Are the Core: Individual Contributors are the highest-status role at Zencoder. • High-Caliber Team & Founder: Work alongside exceptional AI and software engineers, and learn directly from Andrew Filev. • Global & Flexible: We hire talent, not coordinates. Work from wherever you’re happiest and most productive. • Aligned Incentives: Our equity plan ensures that when we succeed, you succeed.