Senior Core Service Engineer

Wowza seeks a Senior Software Engineer within the Platform Engineering Organization. This role is crucial in leading the evolution and enhancement of our core services. You will be vital in enabling migrations and driving future maturation initiatives while managing and maintaining ancillary production and shared services.

The ideal candidate is an experienced Software Engineer/Full Stack Engineer with excellent communication skills who can lead and mentor a team.

What you will do:

Create – Architect and build robust, maintainable, and scalable core services, focusing on revamping authentication mechanisms using modern protocols and AWS infrastructure.

Innovate – Keep abreast of the latest trends in AWS services, to lead cutting-edge developments and migrations. Keep pace with emerging standards in React and Serverless APIs and work on greenfield development. Your ideas will contribute significantly to our product roadmap.

Improve – Define and refine best practices for core service management, actively participating in design and code reviews. Enhance infrastructure code and service reliability with every iteration.

Learn – Engage with complex systems and deep domain knowledge in our industry. Continuously embrace new learning opportunities to stay ahead in the field.

Support – Collaborate with our Support organization to assist our customers with their challenges and incorporate feedback to improve our products and services.

Lead – Provide technical leadership within the team and across the company as a subject matter expert in core services, Serve as a subject matter expert full stack web application development, providing technical leadership within the team, the company, and the industry.

Requirements

5+ years’ experience with Infrastructure as Code, with familiarity in Terraform, CloudFormation, and/or the AWS CDK (Cloud Development Kit).

Expertise with Event-Driven Architecture and Domain Driven Design.

Strong programming expertise in at least one modern development language (TypeScript, Python) with an understanding of Object-Oriented Programming (bonus points for experience with PHP and Ruby).

Capability to learn new programming and scripting languages as needed.

Experience creating and documenting Site Reliability practices.

Experience creating and documenting public severless APIs

Familiarity with Agile software development methodologies and associated tools

Strong background in managing and revamping authentication services, emphasizing OAuth 2.0 and other modern protocols.

Firm understanding of AWS services, particularly AWS Lambda and CloudFront, with a proven track record of successful migrations and service enhancements.

Experience with commercial CDNs (Fastly, Akamai), request lifecycles, and edge computing (e.g., Lambda@Edge).

Proficiency in Kubernetes and AWS ECS/Fargate, ensuring high performance and reliability of production systems.

Ability to participate in on-call rotations and respond to critical production issues.

Excellent communication skills and a collaborative approach to problem-solving.

Commitment to continuous learning and improvement in a fast-paced and evolving industry.

Benefits

Compensation: 100,000-175,000

• Generous Paid Time Off 
•  Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance available 1st day of employment 

• 401(k) with strong company match 

• Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account 

• Employer Paid Basic Life Insurance and AD&D 

• Voluntary Life Insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child) 

• Parental Leave 

• Short-Term and Long-Term Disability 

• Training & Development 

• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) 

The base salary range represents the anticipated low and high end of our compensation range for this position. Actual compensation will vary and will be based on various factors, such as candidate’s qualifications, skills, and competencies.  

Who We Are:  

Wowza Media Systems is a Colorado-based, globally-known leader in video streaming software solutions. Wowza’s software enables its customers to deliver high-fidelity video streams from any source to any destination, reliably at large scale and with low latency. Wowza’s solutions are implemented by tens of thousands of customers in more than 100 countries, across education, healthcare, enterprise, gaming, fitness, auction, e-commerce, and government applications. Founded nearly fifteen years ago, Wowza is backed by private equity firm Clearhaven Partners.  

Why Work for Wowza:  

Join a fast-paced, private equity-backed Colorado software company sitting at the intersection of mission critical video streaming applications. Wowza has long standing reputations for technical prowess and consistent innovation and has been a consistently growing company. In addition, Wowza’s team works to connect the larger community with our passion for tech. From live-streaming graduation ceremonies for local schools to helping parents monitor their children in the NICU, employees can cultivate the same creative energy that first brought the company to life. Our employees are encouraged to take ownership of their role and coworkers are happy to help one another along their video journey. We have a brand-new company headquarters office as well as remote employees across the US and around the globe.