Job Title: Staff Software Development Engineer

Department, Level: VoD Video Engineering, X31

Location: Onsite, Bangalore

Work Type: Full time

Job Summary:

As a Staff Software Development Engineer in the VoD Video Engineering team, you
will own and drive the architecture and delivery of critical backend systems
that power our Video-on-Demand platform at massive scale. You will design and
build the services that enables seamless ingestion, transcoding, packaging, and
delivery of video content to hundreds of millions of viewers. This role sits at
the intersection of high-throughput distributed systems, media processing
pipelines, and cloud-native architecture — offering a rare prospect to make a
deep technical impact while shaping the future of video streaming at scale.

About the Team:

VoD Video Engineering team is the backbone of our streaming platform —
responsible for the entire lifecycle of on-demand video content, from ingest and
transcoding through packaging, storage, and delivery. We own mission-critical
systems that process thousands of hours of video daily,



serving a global
audience with reliability, low latency, and the highest quality of experience.
Our team operates at the forefront of media technology, collaborating closely
with CDN, playback, and content operations teams to continuously raise the bar
on performance and scalability. If you're passionate about large-scale
distributed systems and the technology behind modern video streaming, this is
the team to be on.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

* Own end-to-end architecture and delivery of VoD backend systems — from
content ingest, transcoding, and ABR packaging to metadata management and
delivery orchestration.
* Design highly scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems for video
processing, ensuring high availability and low-latency content delivery at
global scale.
* Lead the design and evolution of video processing pipelines including codec
selection, container formats (MP4, fMP4), ABR ladder opti

📌 Staff Software Development Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 JioStar
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