Senior Software Engineer

Company Overview

At Synamedia, we’re a global team of 1,700+ trailblazers across 20 countries, revolutionizing how the world is entertained and informed. With a legacy of protecting our long-time customers, we’re laser-focused on driving growth and leading the charge as the industry shifts from Pay-TV to IP and streaming. We are the pioneers in next-gen media cloud services who power the viewing experiences of billions of people on Earth with our best-in-class live streaming, distribution, ad tech, cloud platforms, and more.

Our solutions built over the last three decades and trusted by 1,000+ customers, fuel giants like Disney, NBA, The Olympics, Astro, Comcast, Tata Play, and many more.

Ready to grow with us and shape the future of media and entertainment solutions? Let’s do it together!

About the Job – Software Engineer (Cloud Development)

We are looking for passionate Senior Cloud engineer and enthusiastic problem solvers to be a key part of the Cloud development group in Bangalore who can help us in building Synamedia GO product.

Synamedia Go is an OTT video platform that enables Pay TV Operators, Telcos, Broadcasters, OTT Services, and content rights owners to launch and manage compelling video experiences to any device, anywhere, at any time. The product uses cutting edge technology and is in the forefront of Synamedia’s growth engines.

We look towards you as an experienced Cloud engineer with good understanding of scalable and distributed microservices development and deployment in Agile DevOps environment. Your role would be to design, develop, deploy solutions applying your deep rooted programming and system experience for the next generation of products and solutions in the domain of Video streaming.

Key Responsibilities

• Your day to day job includes technology evaluations, proof of concepts development, Cloud distributed microservices feature design, conducting design reviews, writing code, code reviews, continuous integration, continuous deployment, automated testing.
• You will be part of development team responsible for building and managing microservices for the platform.
• You will play a critical part in design and development of services and be a senior member overseeing the work of other junior members of the team
• Working in highly collaborative, multi-site team environment
• Own your team's success and deliver high-quality results in a timely manner.
• Analyse Product and Customer requirements, mapping to existing solutions and suggesting new ideas.
• You will develop high quality software in a collaborative environment where continuous deployment, automated tests and rapid releases are the norm.
• Support and manage all aspects of Cloud operations on a day-to-day basis maintaining continuous availability, durability, scale and up time.
• Exhibit thought leadership in terms of introducing the latest Cloud technologies, solutions, tools or methods to the team to ease development, testing, deployment and operations, optimise costs or increase development velocity
• Suggest improvements into the product based on Quality and Stability, develop tools, scripts, or processes to drive efficiency and automation.

Technical Expertise

• Engineering graduate, B.E Computer Science or equivalent, with 5+ years industry experience
• Experience in cloud design, development, deployment and high scale systems
• Experience in loosely coupled design, Microservices development, Message queues and containerized applications deployment using technologies like RESTful APIs and services, Message Queues, and Docker
• Hands on experience with NodeJS, Java, GoLang
• At least 3+ years experience with Cloud Technologies - AWS, EKS, Open stack (or similar), Designing and building production grade solutions using AWS services such as Lambda, EC2, ECS, ELB, Route53, Cloud watch, VPC, IAM, Cognito
• Experience with DevOps, CI/CD pipeline with detailed understanding of Git, Jenkins, AWS pipeline, Artifactory, and Terraform
• Experience in Continuous monitoring and Observability tools – Lightstep, Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana (ELK), Prometheus, Grafana
• Experience in using a key database technology such as RDS, MySQL, MongoDB, Cassandra or Couchbase
• Experience working with high volume, high throughput, cloud based systems is a plus. Should have experience in debugging and solving issues in such systems
• Basic networking fundamentals on DNS, routing, subnets, VLANs

Required Attributes

• Highly motivated, self-starter and independent
• Use an AI first approach to develop and test software
• Excellent in analytical and logical skills
• Excellent communication skills, be a clear communicator, with the ability to articulate complex technology problems and solutions thereof
• Strong computer science fundamentals, and algorithms
• Test Driven Development (TDD) mindset and orientation of 100% Test automation
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Be open to support incidents on Production deployments, with an intent to enable quick and effective troubleshooting and recovery of services

Growth Opportunities

When welcoming new talent into the team, we are always looking for opportunities to bring in new ideas, those who ask challenging questions and have the curiosity to learn. These qualities are important to us as we nurture a culture of innovation, seize more opportunities to partner with our customers and make a difference as we transform the future of video. To further support your growth and that of our talent pool, Synamedia offers an exhaustive library of skill enhancement resources from AWS, SkillSoft and other partners to help you upskill while on the job. Be it data analytics that picks your brain or content creation, there’s something for every kind of mind.

Benefits and Perks

• Flexible working arrangements.
• Competitive pay hikes and bonus packages.
• Skill enhancement and growth opportunities.
• Equal opportunity employment.
• Health and wellbeing programmes.
• Collaborative work with a truly global team.

A Culture of Belonging

Synamedia is committed to promoting a diverse, inclusive and equal opportunity community - a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed. Our values connect us, and we love to win together. We work with a bias to action, we innovate and encourage curiosity to grow and evolve, as a team.

In our aim to foster a people-friendly environment, we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, engagement activities and services to support all our colleagues across our 20 office locations. Synamedia regularly organises community events that promote cohesion and diversity among colleagues. We are proud of our mental health wellbeing initiatives, our Pride month awareness campaign, our cancer awareness programme and much more.