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Core Competencies
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Demonstrates expertise in designing and operating media ingestion and processing systems, with a strong focus on event-driven architectures and compliance with GDPR. Proficient in managing large-scale service migrations and integrating third-party processing vendors.
Highest-signal resume keywords
Backend Software EngineeringEvent-Driven ArchitecturesService MigrationsData ModelingMedia Processing Pipelines
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Hard Skills
KafkaMicroservice IntegrationRelational Data ModelingNoSQL Data ModelingCaching LayersChange Data CaptureAsynchronous WorkflowsDatabase Schema DesignGraphQLGDPR Compliance
Soft Skills
Operational OwnershipProblem Solving
Tools & Technologies
RedisService MeshCDNTranscoding Vendors
Industry Keywords
Media IngestionContent SafetyData IntegrityLifecycle Management
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesDistributed SystemsGraphQLKafkaNoSQLRedis
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Design, migrate, and operate media ingestion, processing, storage, and lifecycle-management systems for images, video, and documents
- Drive end-to-end migrations of legacy media-processing services to a modern replacement platform
- Design data models, dual-write/backfill strategies, phased cutovers, rollback plans, and legacy cleanup
- Build Kafka/event-schema-based consumers and producers for asynchronous media-processing workflows
- Implement GDPR-compliant hard-deletion workflows across storage and CDN layers
- Integrate personal-data detection, content-integrity checks, and safe-content transformation into upload and creation flows
- Build and maintain integrations with third-party transcoding and processing vendors
- Handle webhooks, rate limiting, and failure scenarios
- Write on-call runbooks and alerting for critical endpoints
- Manage service-mesh permissions, tune consumer/throughput settings, and resolve memory, latency, and backpressure issues
- Design and extend database schemas and GraphQL/API layers for media entities
- Partner with trust and safety, privacy, and adjacent platform teams to translate compliance and product requirements into pipeline changes
Requirements
What you’ll need- 5+ years of backend software engineering experience, ideally on high-scale distributed systems
- Strong experience with event-driven architectures (Kafka or equivalent), service meshes, and microservice-to-microservice integration
- Experience owning large-scale service migrations, including safe cutover strategies, backfills, and rollback plans
- Solid grounding in relational/NoSQL data modeling and schema evolution
- Experience with caching layers (Redis or similar), CDC/change-data-capture pipelines, and cache invalidation strategies
- Comfort with operational ownership, including writing alerts, runbooks, and debugging production incidents
- Experience with media/video processing pipelines, third-party transcoding vendors, or content-safety systems
Benefits
Comp & perks- Vacation: 12-25 days, depending on grade
- Company paid holidays
- Personal Days
- Sick Leave
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage (or provincial healthcare coordination in Canada)
- Retirement savings plans (e.g., RRSP in Canada)
- Life and disability insurance
- Employee assistance programs
- Other benefits as provided by local policy and eligibility
- Potential eligibility for variable incentives, bonuses, or commissions