Senior Backend Engineer (6-month Contract)
BengaluruContract3–6 yrsPosted 4 weeks ago
Mid-level software engineering contract role at Proximity Works in Bengaluru. Needs 3+ years and a B.Tech, B.E. or B.Sc.
About the role
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.
What you'll do
- Design and build scalable, fault-tolerant backend services for video ingest, transcoding job orchestration, ABR packaging, and content delivery workflows
- Own end-to-end delivery of complex VoD backend features — from technical design and implementation through deployment, monitoring, and operational handoff
- Write high-quality, well-tested, and maintainable code; drive code review culture and champion engineering best practices within the team
- Contribute to architectural decisions for the VoD platform, evaluating trade-offs across throughput, latency, cost, and reliability
- Integrate VoD pipeline components with internal platform services including CMS, CDN origin, DRM/entitlement systems, and metadata APIs
What you need
- System design
- Python
- Java
- Go
- Kafka
- Redis
Good to have
- AWS
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- CI/CD
- Terraform
- Incident response