Media Engineer, Media, VHS - 20565

Role Summary

Our client is seeking a Media Engineer for a consulting assignment focused on backend services for media processing, packaging, and streaming in a large-scale, cloud-based environment. The role involves developing, deploying, operating, and maintaining services that process audio and video streams under demanding performance, scalability, reliability, and resource-efficiency requirements.

The assignment covers adaptive streaming, media packaging, transcoding, and optimization of high-performance media-processing pipelines. The engineer will work primarily with Rust, Python, and Java, together with C and C++ libraries, in a Kubernetes-based production environment. The position also includes operational ownership of the services and close collaboration with other technical teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, deploy, operate, and maintain backend services for large-scale audio and video processing.
• Build and enhance solutions for adaptive streaming, media packaging, and transcoding.
• Optimize media-processing pipelines for throughput, latency, performance, and resource efficiency.
• Integrate and maintain systems supporting codecs and container formats such as H.264, HEVC, AV1, AAC, MP4, and MPEG-TS.
• Develop services supporting streaming protocols including HLS and MPEG-DASH.
• Work with Rust, Python, Java, and C or C++ libraries in a containerized production environment.
• Take operational responsibility for reliable, observable, and scalable media services.
• Collaborate across technical teams and communicate architectural and implementation decisions to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Become productive in established codebases and interpret complex technical specifications.

Technical Stack & Requirements

• Core programming: Advanced practical knowledge of Rust, C, or C++.
• Additional languages: Experience with Python or Java is advantageous.
• Media technologies: Practical experience with media-distribution systems, adaptive streaming, packaging, or transcoding.
• Codecs and containers: Strong understanding of technologies such as H.264, HEVC, AV1, AAC, MP4, and MPEG-TS.
• Streaming protocols: Experience with HLS and MPEG-DASH.
• Container platform: Experience with Kubernetes or an equivalent container orchestration platform is advantageous.
• Production engineering: Experience building high-performance, observable pipelines and backend services for large-scale production environments.
• Distribution: Experience with CDN-based distribution or other large-scale content-delivery solutions is advantageous.

Qualifications & Experience

The successful consultant will have substantial hands-on experience with backend services in large-scale production environments, including cloud-based and containerized platforms. A strong background in optimizing media processing for performance and resource efficiency is required, together with practical knowledge of audio and video distribution technologies. The role requires the ability to work independently, adapt to unfamiliar codebases, interpret complex technical specifications, collaborate across team boundaries, and clearly explain technical decisions to varied stakeholders.