Senior Media Communications Software Engineer

Vonage Mission

Vonage is emerging as a leader in the $100B+ cloud communications platform (CPaaS) market and is part of the Ericsson group. Our APIs and SDKs are critical to customers like Airbnb, Viber, WhatsApp, Snapchat, and many others, enabling them to connect with their customers globally. As businesses shift to real-time, customer-centric communication models, Vonage is experiencing impressive growth.

Why this role matters

Vonage, a leading product in WebRTC video communications, is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Media Cloud Engineering teams. Successful Candidates will explore new ways to further enhance the Vonage Video Platform, our WebRTC-compliant Communications PaaS, with improved media communications, VoIP, quality and reliability optimization, Scalable and Cloud resilient Architecture Designs, and beyond. 

The candidate will be interested in both feature development as well as systems engineering with a heavy focus on quality, fault-tolerance and reliability. He/she will have a taste for data driven approaches to get insights, and also for tracking and adopting leading Industry Standards. Drivennes and motivation to see his/her work used and deployed in large-scale production systems with extremely high availability will be a must.

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What you'll do

  • Hands-on software development and system design.
  • Implement new features, and push further media communications and VoIP technology and Interoperability of the Video Vonage Communications Platform.
  • Contribute to server and software architectures for real-time media streaming, VoIP, Media Interoperability, related systems engineering in the Cloud, accounting for interaction with auto-scaling, high availability, etc.
  • Contribute to maintaining and evolving media processing software stacks including both proprietary and open-source software.
  • Design and develop approaches to measure, evaluate and improve service quality.
  • Working on multiple projects involving high-performance media servers and signaling and coordinating with other teams.
  • We make, leading edge technology for: https://www.vonage.com/communications-apis/video/

What you'll bring

  • Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Telecommunications or equivalent.
  • Experience with Media Communications software technology (e.g. at least some of codecs, streaming, VoIP, SIP, media protocols, QoS/QoE, media processing, etc.) and related industry open-source software.
  • C/C++ or Java coding skills, and willingness to learn more languages.
  • Familiarity with Javascript and/or Python, and willingness to get more experienced.
  • Experience working on backend and/or frontend software engineering.
  • Excellent debugging and problem solving skills.
  • Good understanding of algorithms, data structures, memory management, and concurrency.
  • Track record of delivering high quality code in a fast-paced environment.
  • High accountability and rigor, willing to work on tests automation as needed. 
  • Excellent written and spoken English.

A plus, if one or more of the following are also provided:

  • Experience with Image Processing and/or AI for Image/Audio Processing
  • Experience with cloud technologies such as AWS, Kubernetes, Helm, Docker.
  • Experience with CI/CD in Jenkins or similar tool
  • Hands-on experience with some of the following media technologies: H.264/VP8/OPUS/AAC codecs, WebRTC standards, RTP/RTCP, STUN, TURN, ICE, VoIP, SIP, H.323, SDPs, etc…
  • Hands-on experience with Freeswitch software, Event Socket Library, call plans.
  • Additional advanced JavaScript and/or Python coding skills.
  • Some data science skills to understand and analyze implementations behavior in production.

What's in it for you

In addition to providing exciting work, career advancement opportunities, and a collaborative work environment, Vonage provides competitive pay and benefits including unlimited discretionary time off and tuition reimbursement.

 

Note: The purpose of this profile is to provide a general summary of essential responsibilities for the position and is not meant as an exhaustive list. Assignments may differ for individuals within the same role based on business conditions, departmental need or geographic location.

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