Senior CDN Engineer - Edge Delivery for Video

Rumble; Canada; On-site; CAD 132,000 - 158,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits package

Equity

Competitive salary

Job summary

RUM Group Inc. is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer (CDN) to design, build, operate, and optimize its content delivery network and edge infrastructure for a rapid-growth video platform.

You will enhance latency, availability, and throughput across cache hierarchies, load balancing, and routing, while collaborating with cross-functional teams on automation and reliability. The role emphasizes hands-on engineering, outage resolution, and clear documentation, with on-call duties and

Qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant network, systems, or infrastructure engineering experience.
• Strong understanding of IP networking, TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, TLS, DNS, and internet traffic routing.
• Hands-on experience operating CDN, edge, reverse-proxy, caching, load-balancing, or high-volume web-delivery infrastructure.
• Strong knowledge of caching behavior, including cache-control directives, TTLs, cache keys, invalidation or purge mechanisms, and origin shielding.
• Experience optimizing availability, latency, throughput, and capacity for high-traffic production services.
• Strong Linux systems experience in a production environment.
• Experience automating infrastructure through Python, Bash, Perl, or similar scripting languages.
• Excellent technical documentation and verbal and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, operate, and improve CDN and edge-delivery infrastructure.
• Improve video and content-delivery performance through cache optimization, traffic steering, load balancing, routing improvements, and capacity planning.
• Develop and maintain systems for origin protection, cache hierarchy, cache-fill behavior, cache invalidation, failover, and traffic distribution across points of presence.
• Partner with network, systems, and software engineering teams to diagnose and resolve latency, throughput, availability, and delivery-quality issues.
• Build and maintain automation for configuration management, deployment, monitoring, and operational workflows.
• Contribute to capacity planning, infrastructure expansion, and operational readiness for high-traffic services.
• Participate in an on-call rotation, respond to incidents, drive resolution, and communicate status clearly to stakeholders.
• Document infrastructure designs, operational procedures, incident findings, and subsequent reliability improvements.

Skills

Networking fundamentals

Linux systems

CDN/edge delivery

Caching and cache control

Load balancing

Python/Bash scripting

Troubleshooting

Documentation

Job description

RUM Group Inc. is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer (CDN) to design, build, operate, and optimize its content delivery network and edge infrastructure for a rapid-growth video platform.

You will enhance latency, availability, and throughput across cache hierarchies, load balancing, and routing, while collaborating with cross-functional teams on automation and reliability. The role emphasizes hands-on engineering, outage resolution, and clear documentation, with on-call duties and