Description
Company Overview:
Panopto is a dynamic and rapidly growing company backed by a leading private equity firm. With a team of approximately 200 dedicated professionals, we are committed to empowering learners with interactive video.
As we continue to support growth and expansion, we are seeking a Backend Software Developer who loves solving interesting technical challenges and enabling compelling customer experiences to help us build the high-performance services and processing engines that power our clouds across the world.
Position Summary:
As a developer, you’ll be tasked with ensuring that all of our scalable systems remain robust while consistently delivering quick turnaround for an ever growing stream of requests and millions of hours of content a month. You’ll have opportunities to further simplify and streamline our ability to maintain our product, and to build fundamental architectural cornerstones that will empower the rest of the development team.
This position will benefit from backend software engineering skills, drawing on knowledge of coding and doing technical designs in high scale systems. Ideal candidates have a strong attention to detail and desire to get to the bottom of how things work, a drive to take action and improve things where they can, along with a natural focus on ensuring an excellent customer experience. This role will participate in our on-call rotation and be expected to respond to alerts outside of normal business hours when on-call. Other responsibilities may be assigned to help drive our vision and mission to alignment with our organization’s values.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or an equivalent amount of experience/training
- This is an early career position requiring 0-2 years experience.
- Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, parallel or distributed systems
- Software engineering skills: componentization, automated testing, debugging, and coding/designing for fault tolerance
- Clear and concise communication skills
- A track record of, and passion for, transparency
- How you work / what motivates you:
- Customer focus and a love for solving customer problems
- Ability to rapidly prototype ideas and write quality code
- A security oriented mindset and desire to build robust and secure systems
- Collaborating with others to build something with lasting impact
- A love for learning and a desire to grow and to help improve the team around you
Preferred Qualifications:
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible, Chef, etc.
- Relational database expertise -- developing in the data layer and writing ad-hoc queries
- Experience in automation frameworks (such as Jenkins)
- Experience with caching systems and web servers
- Experience running both Windows and Linux systems
- Experience developing in Python
- Technical design skills in backend and high-scale systems
- A willingness to take on, drive, and maintain a variety of large and small projects
The Team:
The Cloud Services team is a focused group of talented engineers who make sure that the production systems run smoothly and are directly involved in the evolution of the system as a whole as we continue to build the best of breed software for our customers.
Join Panopto and be part of an exciting journey where you’ll gain expertise that will make a significant impact on our growth trajectory. If you’re interested in working on a rapidly evolving system loaded with interesting challenges and complex problems, we encourage you to apply.
Our people and culture
Panopto’s mission is to help anyone share knowledge using video. Our user base is as diverse as the world’s universities and businesses. Panopto’s commitment to fostering a diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture empowers each member of our team to express their authentic selves, contribute their distinct perspectives and make a meaningful impact both individually and collectively. This inclusive environment not only encourages creativity and the free exchange of ideas but also harnesses the power of varied viewpoints. As a result, we are better equipped to tackle our most intricate challenges, leveraging the wealth of different experiences and backgrounds within our team. This collaborative spirit not only drives us towards effective solutions but also fuels our drive to continually improve and innovate, ultimately enhancing the quality of our products and services. It’s what sets Panopto apart as a unique and rewarding place to work.
Our purpose
We believe that video can have a transformative effect on learning. So we built a video knowledge management platform that helps businesses and universities improve the way that they train, teach, and share knowledge. Since 2007, we have been a pioneer in video capture software, video management, and inside-video-search technology. Panopto has been adopted by more than 1,500 companies and universities worldwide with over ten million end users. Today, Panopto’s knowledge management platform is the largest repository of expert learning videos in the world. A proud remote-first company, Panopto is headquartered in Pittsburgh, with offices in London, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Sydney, and has received industry recognition for its innovation, rapid growth, and company culture.
Panopto is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value and encourage diversity and solicit applications from all qualified individuals which will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability or protected veteran status, or any other legally protected criteria, in accordance with applicable law. Panopto is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities. If you require accommodation for interviewing or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please provide more detail on how we can further support you by reaching out to the Employee Experience department.
Hybrid, US: Candidates looking for flexible or remote-friendly positions are encouraged to apply. Panopto is proud to be a remote-first company. Employees in this position are eligible to work remotely. Still, they must make regular trips to the Pittsburgh office, located on the north side of Pittsburgh along the Three Rivers Heritage Trail with quick access to downtown.
Remote, US: Candidates looking for flexible or remote-friendly positions are encouraged to apply. Panopto is proud to be a remote-first company. Employees in this position are eligible to work remotely.
Remote, International: Candidates looking for flexible or remote-friendly positions are encouraged to apply. Panopto is proud to be a remote-first company. Employees in this position are eligible to work remotely. Still, they may make regular trips to the local international office from time to time, where applicable.
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