Position: Senior Golang Engineer
Company: LOBBY X
Experience required: 3y
Category: Golang
English level: intermediate
Published: 2021-11-01T00:00:00+02:00

**The Role:**

The Streaming Team is responsible for processing, transcoding, and distributing much of client’s exclusive audio content. They have built a highly-available distributed platform for streaming live audio at internet scale. The stack is a modern architecture of containerized microservices written in Go running in a Kubernetes cluster using AWS infrastructure (with Lambdas, Cloudfront, Aurora, DynamoDB, etc.). The platform must support features such as dynamic ad insertion, dynamic content replacement, live rewind, and is designed to play streams 24/7 without interruption for maintenance or events such as node failures. They have a rich Golang codebase of over 200K lines of code and a diverse problem set including real time streaming, distributed caching, large dataset processing, high availability and fault-tolerance.

**What You’ll Do:**
- You know how to build elastic, robust, and fault-tolerant services that support our unique growth requirements. You stay up-to-date with the latest architectural trends.
- You feel ownership over everything you ship; you'd never call code "released" until you’re confident it’s correct. You pride yourself on effective monitoring, strong documentation, and thorough test coverage.
- You understand requirements beyond the written word. Whether you’re working on an API used by other developers, an internal tool consumed by our operation teams, or a feature used by millions of listeners, your attention to details leads to a delightful user experience.
- You thrive when learning new technologies and don’t believe in one-size-fits-all solutions.
- You believe that a working proof-of-concept is the best way to make a point.
- You embrace DevOps philosophy and the use of infrastructure-as-code.
- You exercise good technical judgement to foresee and identify potential issues.
- You choose to mentor those around you and favor collaboration.
- You stay calm under pressure and can handle production escalations effectively (our product is live 24/7!).

**What we are looking for:**
- 5+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 3 years experience working with scalable and distributed backend systems
- Strong foundation in databases, SQL and NoSQL technologies.
- Experience building backend services/microservices
- Experience designing APIs for use by multiple stakeholders
- Experience in Go and as a plus - an Object Oriented language (C++, C#, Java, etc) is required
- Experience with AWS is desirable 
- Experience with Kubernetes and Docker are desirable but not necessary
- Experience with media encoding standards, containers and streaming is desirable but not necessary
- Experience with HLS streaming is a plus, but not required
- Experience with gRPC is a plus, but not required
- Superior communication and writing skills.

**Compensation & Benefits:**
- Company offers competitive salary, bonus, and equity compensation packages
- Generous benefits, including 100% coverage of all health plans for employees and dependents regardless of which medical health plan you choose
- Dental and Vision plan coverage
- Flexible time off policy, plus paid holidays
- Wellness stipend/Cell phone subsidy/Trainings and educational spending and more

**About The Client:**
The Product, the leading live streaming and on-demand audio service, brings together live sports, news, music, podcasts and radio from around the globe. With 75 million monthly active users, The Product is one of the most widely used streaming audio platforms in the world. The Product broadcasts over 100,000 owned & operated and partner radio stations, and boasts more than 5.7 million podcasts. With premiere distribution across 200 platforms and connected devices, The Product empowers listeners to ‘hear’ what they love wherever ‘here’ might be. The Premium subscribers also unlock exclusive access to commercial-free news from top networks like CNBC, CNN, FOX News Radio and MSNBC, as well as commercial-free music channels for every mood and activity.