Multimedia Software Engineer

Responsibilities

About the Team
Video & Edge is a top-tier video platform globally. It offers services like media storage, delivery, transcoding, and streaming. Our goal is to create industry-leading solutions for live streaming, video-on-demand, and real-time communication for TikTok, Dola, Lark, and other external products worldwide.
We mainly focus on the transmission network and multimedia processing parts. We also build a data foundation and analysis abilities, promote refined product operation, cut costs, and boost efficiency.
We're building the next - generation video processing platform and the biggest real - time transmission network to give great experiences to billions of users worldwide. If you join our team, you'll have the opportunity to handle large-scale network and extremely high-performance challenges around the world. At the same time, you can use your skills in coding, algorithms, complexity analysis, and large-scale system design.

Responsibilities
- Collaborate closely with product and business teams to deeply understand requirements, use cases, and success metrics, translate high-level product requirements into scalable system architecture and technical solutions.
- Design and develop an AI-driven real-time multimedia processing platform (e.g., video/audio analysis, enhancement, and streaming). Build and optimize end-to-end pipelines for low-latency, high-throughput multimedia processing.
- Continuously monitor, evaluate, and improve system performance, quality, and reliability using data-driven approaches. Work on performance optimization across the stack, including latency, resource efficiency, and scalability.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (algorithm, engineering, infrastructure, data, and product) to deliver high-quality solutions
- Ensure system robustness, observability, and maintainability in production environments

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical background involving software/system engineering, or equivalent working experience.
- High proficiency in C&C++.
- Solid understanding of multimedia fundamentals (audio/video processing, encoding/decoding, streaming and network protocol)
- Experience building or working with real-time systems with low-latency requirements
- Passionate, self-motivated, good teamwork skills, strong problem-solving skills and ability to translate complex requirements into technical solutions.
- High oral and written proficiency in English and Mandarin required: this role involves frequent communication with global teams, clients and stakeholders in English speaking regions as well as Mandarin speaking markets.

Preferred Qualifications
- Experience and/or interest in Computer Vision, Signal Processing, 3D Graphics Rendering, Machine Learning
- Knowledge of AI/ML concepts and experience integrating models into production systems
- Working in international teams and across timezones effectively (US, Dublin, China, Singapore)