Lead Engineer for Video Streaming

We need The Video Streaming Craftsman who will help to shape and scale our products’ corefunctionality into a piece of engineering art that other IoT companies would crave for.

What’s Petcube Team?

We create IoT products for pets and their pet parents since 2012, and strive for such quality asApple has set for consumer electronics that people love. 🧔👩💕🐶🐱 Amidst the pandemic we succeeded to launch a new camera Petcube Cam. Its sales are nowrocketing so fast that our streaming platform’s stability and scalability require a truly space-techupgrade.So we are growing the product team, and Video Streaming Engineer will become itscornerstone.

Why should I join?

• We walked the startup path from 0 to 1 through several crises, and level-up our productquality with each next launch.
• Our business = Internet of Things + SaaS for hundreds of thousands of customers, andthere’s everything tech inside: hardware, firmware, backend, apps, video streaming,payments, chatbots, ML.
• With our team, you’ll get so much experience in a single year that with other products isgained for three years, leave aside the outsourcing.
• You’ll get the whole team’s support WITHOUT the bureaucratic hurdles.
• We’re working remotely, and we have cool “Lab” with cameras farm, microchips, andother reasons to socialize 🛠🥃
• When our tech will understand dogs and cats better than humans can, you’ll be able tomention your contribution in this breakthrough not without a bit of vanity 🦄

What are the expectations?

• You have 5+ years of engineering experience
• You contributed significantly to at least one video streaming core of the product(s) with100k+ users
• You have mastered the video/audio streaming stack end-to-end, and you’re fluent inC/C++ to craft the embedded or mobile lib, and python/go/other languages relevant forbackend.
• These tech standards are not just some theory for you: WebRTC, SIP, RTP/RTCP,MPEG, H264, SRTP (maybe you can mention more? 😎)
• You can tell what are these abbreviations and what typical uses and challenges standbehind each of them: STUN, TURN, ICE, SDP, NAT.
• For you, signaling is primarily about servers, not about animals communicating to find apartner 💔
• You are hands-on with optimizing media transmission performance and strengtheningsecurity.
• For you, the platform is part of the product, which means aligning with business contextand other components, and taking a lead where the streaming core sets the game rulesfor the rest.
• You know the time to design and the time to develop and leverage OOD to prepareconcise APIs and libs.
• Testing is not just for testers, you make use of unit, integration, stress and other usefultypes of testing, and align on it with QA team.
• The test and production data is your best advisor, you honor proper logging and knowhow to build highly usable dashboards that warn about upcoming issues beforecustomers bring them to the support team.
• Documenting is not a dull burden, but your tool that helps to scale the platform, discussand make decisions with fellow engineers.
• You don’t walk past the potential problems, and suggest the optimal preventive solutions,with respect to constraints and priorities.
• You prefer direct conversation but keep up the minimal formalities for quality andtraceability.
• The discussed and agreed responsibility is more important for you than the formalposition.
• If your team lacks some narrow expertise, you find a way to cover it together.

What will I work on?

• The video streaming core of our products - simple, mighty, beautiful. The platform thatserves hundreds of thousands of customers.
• You’ll join our quest for optimal architecture and balance between proven off-the-shelfsolutions and components specific to our business needs.
• You’ll be at the heart of our efforts to deliver seamless customer experience, on par withZoom / Skype / Google Meet, and astonishing the direct competition like Google Nestand Amazon’s Ring.
• The team you’ll work with, overcomes such productions challenges that sometimes 3rdparty vendors come unprepared for our questions

And if the resulting solution excels, we are seriously thinking about turning it into Platform as aService.