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title: 'Senior Software Engineer at Bitmovin'
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# Senior Software Engineer at Bitmovin

- **Company:** Bitmovin
- **Location:** Denver, CO
- **Posted:** 2026-07-28
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://bitmovin.com/careers/8653416002?gh_jid=8653416002

## Job description

Location:  Denver Tech Stack: C++/Java, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Azure Team Size: 10 Engineers (EU-based) Travel: up to 25%

Bitmovin is a global Series-C SaaS scale-up that provides award-winning video streaming technology to world-renowned brands and managed service providers. Our solution suite consists of Live and VOD Encoding, a Multi-Platform Player, and Analytics platform; enabling content owners to redefine the viewer experience through API-based workflow optimization, fast turnaround, and scalability.

We have seen great success and created great momentum in the market. This is down to our products, ecosystem, but ultimately our people who love video streaming.

“We are constantly seeking out forward thinking individuals who want to shape the future of video… come and work with us!”

Stefan Lederer, CEO

At Bitmovin we value cognitive diversity and the huge part this plays in not only creating a global culture second to none, but in how this underpins our ability to create truly representative, Emmy award winning products. Diversity in all its forms is encouraged and celebrated at Bitmovin; everyone has a role to play in helping us shape the future of video.

Why will your impact matter?

At Bitmovin, we’re redefining how the world streams video. Our Emmy award-winning technology powers video for household names like Red Bull Media House, RTL, and Technicolor — and we’re just getting started.

You'll be a senior engineer on our Encoding team, shipping production code in the core encoding product (Java/Kotlin, C++) that runs at massive cloud scale (VOD and live, AV1/HEVC).

Our engineering team is in Europe. You'll be our senior engineer on the ground in the US: contributing in the team's sprints, and owning the technical relationship with our largest US media and streaming customers during hours when Europe is offline. It's a real engineering role with direct customer ownership, and it's the first of its kind at Bitmovin, so you'll shape how it works.

This is the first Forward Deployed Engineer at Bitmovin — a greenfield role where you'll define the playbook, not inherit one.

You'll sit inside our Encoding engineering team, shipping production code in its sprints, while being the technical face of Bitmovin for our marquee US media and streaming customers. When Europe is offline, you're the one keeping US enterprise accounts moving: triaging encoding issues, driving incidents to resolution or a clean handover, and turning what you learn in the field into better product.

What you’ll do:

- Contribute production code to the encoding stack (Java/Kotlin, C++) as a full member of the Encoding team's sprints
- Own our US enterprise accounts technically during EU off-hours: triage and troubleshoot encoding issues, drive incidents to resolution or a clean handover
- Debug live, distributed systems under real customer pressure: log analysis, error diagnosis, network traces, reproducing issues from limited information
- Travel to customer sites to support integrations, run technical workshops, and handle escalations
- Feed what you learn in the field back into sprint planning and the product roadmap

What success looks like (6–12 months):

- You're shipping production code in the Encoding team's sprints, not just triaging issues
- You've become the trusted US technical contact for our largest media and streaming accounts, and off-hours response times have visibly improved
- You've defined a repeatable playbook for triage, resolve-vs-escalate, and clean handovers to the EU team
- You've run at least one on-site customer integration or workshop end to end
- Field learnings from your accounts have shaped sprint planning or the roadmap at least once
- The EU team trusts you to own US hours solo. Your async updates are clear enough that Europe picks up where you left off without friction.
- You've built a clear picture of how customers actually use our product day to day, and turned it into documentation the product and engineering teams actually rely on.

What can you bring

Must-Have Experience:

- 5+ years of software engineering experience at a senior level, strong in Java or C++, able to contribute production code in the encoding team's sprints
- 2+ years in a customer-facing technical role (solutions architecture, professional services, forward deployed, or named-account support)
- Cloud experience (AWS and/or GCP), Docker, and hands-on experience running and debugging scalable distributed services
- Strong troubleshooting on live customer systems: log analysis, error diagnosis, network traces, reproducing issues from limited information
- Open to AI-assisted development workflows and comfortable using AI tools like Claude Code
- Excellent written and verbal English, with a track record of communicating credibly with enterprise engineering teams
- High autonomy: comfortable owning issues end-to-end during US hours while the EU team is offline, with sound judgment on when to escalate vs. resolve
- Experience being responsible for maintaining production systems, preferably experienced with on-call, incident management, or 24/7 operations
- Based on the US East Coast or in Denver, and willing to travel to customer sites regularly
- You must already have the right to work in the United States.

Nice-to-Have:

- Video streaming domain knowledge: codecs (H.264/HEVC, ideally AV1), container formats, HLS/DASH, OTT encoding workflows
- Prior forward-deployed, solutions architect, or professional services experience at a SaaS or media-tech vendor
- Experience with Bitmovin or competing encoding platforms (AWS MediaConvert/Elemental, Harmonic, MediaKind)

You don’t have experience with all the points above? Don’t worry, we will support you with learning, training, and coaching on the job.

## Why do this at Bitmovin

There is a lot on offer here:

- View the benefits on our [Careers Page](https://bitmovin.com/careers/)
- Get to know our outstanding culture showcased on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/bitmovin/life/7f143265-8cc2-4ae8-93f4-dc88cf00d0d4/?viewAsMember=true)
- Check the employee reviews on [Glassdoor](https://www.glassdoor.co.uk/Reviews/Bitmovin-Reviews-E1400248.htm)

Apply for the role, and let’s get talking!

## About Bitmovin

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Bitmovin provides cloud-native video infrastructure solutions for encoding, playback, live streaming, and observability, enabling developers to deliver high-quality video experiences at scale.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C, total funding $87M)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA (with major offices in Klagenfurt and Vienna, Austria; Berlin, Germany; London, UK; and Denver, Colorado, USA)
- **Founded**: 2012
- **Founders**: Stefan Lederer (CEO) and Christopher Mueller (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Video streaming technology, OTT (over-the-top) infrastructure, cloud-based video engineering
- **Target customers**: B2B – Enterprise customers (250+ globally) including media companies, broadcasters, and content platforms
- **Mission**: "To enable developers, worldwide, to play, encode and analyze video simply, efficiently and with the highest quality attainable."
- **Vision**: "To shape the future of video."

## Products & Services
- **Bitmovin VOD Encoder**: Cloud-native video-on-demand encoding that processes content up to 100x real-time, supporting the latest codecs (AV1, HEVC, etc.) and reducing storage/bandwidth costs by up to 50%.
- **Bitmovin Live Encoder**: Broadcast-grade live encoder with 24/7 reliability for events and linear channels, scalable for any audience size.
- **Bitmovin Player**: Fully customizable player SDK for web, mobile, and TV platforms, ensuring seamless playback across devices with support for DRM, ads, and accessibility.
- **Bitmovin Observability**: Real-time quality of service (QoS) and quality of experience (QoE) analytics to monitor and optimize every playback session.
- **Bitmovin Streams**: A simplified cloud streaming service (launched 2022) for rapid video delivery.
- **Monetization Solutions**: Support for AVOD, SVOD, and hybrid models with server-side ad insertion (SSAI) and client-side ad insertion (CSAI), including SCTE-35 markers for live.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed; last known funding round: Series C of $25M (announced alongside an Emmy® Award for innovation in online broadcasting).
- **Key Metric**: Total funding raised – $87M (as stated on careers page). Investors include Y Combinator (YC S15), Highland Europe, Atomico, SpeedInvest, Constantia Industries, and Dawn Capital.
- **Notable Partners/Investors**: Y Combinator, Highland Europe, Atomico, Dawn Capital, and the University of Klagenfurt (research collaboration on climate-friendly streaming).
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Over 250 enterprise customers globally.
  - Processes 1 billion+ minutes of VOD content, 10 million+ live minutes, and 2 billion+ player impressions per month.
  - Awarded an Emmy® for Innovations in Online Broadcasting.
  - Launched new products (Streams, Live Encoder, Stream Lab) and a €3.3M research project "GAIA" on climate-friendly video streaming.
  - Expanded offices to Denver, Berlin, London, and Vienna.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Cloud-native architecture**: Fully built for the cloud, enabling rapid scaling, cost efficiency, and integration with major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP) via Cloud Connect.
- **Codec leadership**: Supports the latest video codecs (AV1, HEVC, VVC) to reduce bandwidth while maintaining quality.
- **End-to-end workflow**: Offers a complete stack (encode, play, observe, monetize) with a single vendor, reducing integration complexity.
- **Developer-first approach**: API-first, SDK-based, and used by thousands of developers globally.
- **Patent-pending research**: Spun out of Alpen-Adria University research on MPEG-DASH streaming.

## Strategic Focus
- **Expand enterprise reach**: Target large media and OTT platforms in LATAM and APAC (global expansion mentioned in milestones).
- **Innovate in live and linear**: Strengthen live encoder reliability and scale for sports and events.
- **Sustainability**: Research project GAIA aims to reduce energy consumption of video streaming.
- **Monetization & analytics**: Enhance ad insertion and observability capabilities to drive revenue for customers.
- **Talent growth**: Hiring across engineering, product, marketing, and sales (10+ offices globally).

## Why Work Here
- **Culture highlights**: Core values include "Innovate relentlessly", "Execute and get results", "Own it", "Attack the idea, not the person", "Think through the customer lens", and "Seek to learn continuously". Named #2 Great Place to Work in Austria (2020).
- **Work environment**: Flat hierarchy, international team (170+ employees across 10 global offices), quarterly hackathons, and regular team activities (skiing days, summer/holiday parties).
- **Remote/hybrid policy**: Flexible working hours; some roles (e.g., Director of Product Marketing) are remote within Europe; offices in major cities support hybrid arrangements.
- **Learning & development**: Access to LinkedIn Learning, O’Reilly, Udemy; individual career coaching; personal development trainings; conference attendance; book allowance; quarterly hackathons.
- **Perks**: Home office equipment bonus, choice of MacBook or Lenovo, additional days off (bridge days), wellbeing week, volunteering days, generous holiday allowance, flexible hours.

## Sources
1. [Bitmovin About Us](https://bitmovin.com/about-us/)
2. [Bitmovin Careers](https://bitmovin.com/careers/)
3. [Bitmovin Official Website](https://bitmovin.com/)
4. [Bitmovin LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/bitmovin)
5. [PitchBook Profile](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/66003-22)

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