Video Performance Engineer

At Hopin, we’re reimagining virtual events.

As the first all-in-one virtual venue for live online events, Hopin brings people together in a highly interactive and engaging online experience that feels just like an in-person event, only without the barriers. Whether it’s a 50-person meetup, or a 50,000-person conference—any type of event organizer can host a Hopin event for their attendees, speakers, sponsors, and vendors to convene, learn, and interact face-to-face online. We’re spearheading the innovative technology that is enabling people to gather online like never before.

Our mission is simple: 

We believe in events without limits, but events that are sustainable and accessible to everyone—and fun, too! To do this, we need passionate builders and storytellers to join us. Do you love people and technology and the magic that happens when they converge at scale? Do you have the skills and experience we’re looking for to better serve our clients? If so, we’d like to meet.

We’ve been recently funded by a16z, General Catalyst, IVP, Accel, DFJ Growth, Northzone, Coatue, Tiger Global, Salesforce Ventures and many other high profile investors.

The role:

As a Video Performance Engineer at Hopin, you will lead in assessing and improving the performance of Hopin’s video applications under high load. You will work closely with the Video Engineering team to ensure the platform is capable of handling concurrent connections in the hundreds of thousands, as well as being the “video expert” of the team, to pass on knowledge to other team members.

Responsibilities:

• Load and Performance testing of all aspects of Hopin’s video platform, incl. testing of WebRTC and RTMP along with the surrounding applications
• Proactively identifying performance issues and suggesting solutions to the video team
• Upskilling other members of the team in video performance
• Automation of integration tests for WebRTC and RTMP

About you:

• 5 years experience with video streaming (WebRTC and RTMP)
• Experience in improving video performance, understanding how to scale video applications
• Experience with cloud providers (AWS preferred)
• Experience with automated test frameworks
• Experience with telemetry/diagnostic systems such as Honeycomb.io, New Relic, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, etc
• Demonstrable experience learning new technologies on your own
• Excellent teamwork and mentoring skills
• Good knowledge of version control
• Knowledge of Kubernetes, Redis, Postgres and Ruby on Rails

The offer:

• Competitive salary
• Fully remote, global team
• Flexible schedules
• Laptop assigned, Mac or Dell (Windows)
• $800 USD for Home-Office set up
• $1500 USD for Learning & Development

At Hopin, we're committed to cultivating an environment that promotes equality, diversity, and inclusion. We are a global community and we believe our unique qualities must be celebrated as they are critical to our innovation. It's essential to us that you bring your authentic self to work every single day, no matter your age, ethnicity, religion, citizenship, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, neurodiversity, or otherwise. Inclusion isn't just an initiative at Hopin. We strive to embed it not just into our core values but throughout our entire ecosystem.