Senior Backend Engineer, Media Delivery (Kubernetes/FFmpeg)

Frontify; Sankt Gallen; Vor Ort; CHF 110.000 - 170.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Home office setup budget

Pension fund contributions

Zusammenfassung

Frontify, the brand platform, is seeking a backend-focused engineer to own media processing at scale. You’ll transform images and videos, manage Kubernetes deployments, and optimize delivery costs while collaborating with teams across the company.

You’ll work with Node.js services and occasional C++ work, using FFmpeg, AWS, and CDN tooling to support global brands. A strong handle on architecture and production readiness is essential.

Qualifikationen

• Experience designing, building and maintaining high-quality backend services.
• Production experience with Kubernetes and autoscaling.
• Strong knowledge of AWS components (S3, CloudFront, Lambda) and cost optimization.
• Familiarity with media pipelines (FFmpeg, codecs) a plus.
• Reading and debugging native code (C++) when needed, not mandatory.

Aufgaben

• Build and enhance the media transformation engine (FFmpeg + native libs).
• Operate services on Kubernetes (EKS), Helm charts, deployments, alerts.
• Develop async bulk-processing: queues, autoscaling, fairness across customers.
• Improve delivery path speed and cost with caching/CDN layers (Varnish, HAProxy, CloudFront).
• Contribute to runbooks, designs and documentation for team knowledge.

Kenntnisse

Node.js

Kubernetes

AWS

C++

Docker

Tools

FFmpeg

Varnish

HAProxy

Jobbeschreibung

Frontify, the brand platform, is seeking a backend-focused engineer to own media processing at scale. You’ll transform images and videos, manage Kubernetes deployments, and optimize delivery costs while collaborating with teams across the company.

You’ll work with Node.js services and occasional C++ work, using FFmpeg, AWS, and CDN tooling to support global brands. A strong handle on architecture and production readiness is essential.