Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer (6-Month Contract) – Video Engineering

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Job Type: Full-time, Contract (6 Months)

Work Mode: On-site

Experience: 3+ Years

Job Description

We are looking for an experienced Backend Engineer to design, develop, and maintain scalable backend systems for a Video-on-Demand (VoD) platform. The role involves building services for video ingestion, transcoding job orchestration, adaptive bitrate (ABR) packaging, content storage, and delivery.

You will work on distributed systems and large-scale video processing infrastructure, focusing on performance, reliability, scalability, and operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities

- Design and develop scalable, fault-tolerant backend services for video ingestion, transcoding, packaging, and delivery workflows.
- Own backend features end-to-end, from technical design and implementation to deployment, monitoring, and operational support.
- Write high-quality, maintainable, and well-tested code.
- Contribute to architectural decisions involving throughput, latency, cost, and system reliability.
- Integrate video processing services with content management systems, CDN origin, DRM/entitlement systems, and metadata APIs.
- Monitor production systems, troubleshoot incidents, perform root cause analysis, and implement preventive improvements.
- Optimize video processing workflows for cost efficiency, throughput,



and time-to-publish.
- Collaborate with product managers, content operations, and cross-functional engineering teams.
- Participate in code reviews, technical design discussions, and knowledge sharing.

Required Skills

- Strong programming experience in Go, Python, or Java.
- Experience developing and operating production-grade backend services.
- Understanding of distributed systems, microservices, and system design.
- Hands-on experience with AWS, preferably S3, compute services, SQS, and SNS.
- Knowledge of event-driven architecture, Kafka, message queues, and workflow orchestration.
- Experience with databases, storage systems, and caching technologies such as Redis or Memcached.
- Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure as code.
- Understanding of logging, monitoring, metrics, and distributed tracing.
- Strong problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills.

Experience and Education

- 3+ years of professional backend engineering experience.
- Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science or a related field preferred.
- Experience building scalable and reliable distributed systems in production.

Contract Details: This is a full time, 6-month contractual position requiring on-site work in Bengaluru, Karnataka.

Pay: ₹150,000.00 - ₹250,000.00 per month

Work Location: In person

📌 Senior Backend Engineer (6-Month Contract) – Video Engineering (Bengaluru)
🏢 Rani
📍 Bengaluru