Looking for a career growth opportunity in your next role? Maybe you’re starting your career as a software developer or you’ve been working in a more traditional QA role and are motivated to expand your skillset on a track into software development? Seeking an opportunity to gain experience in the exciting and growing video streaming industry, a global market valued at $36 Billion in 2019? This position will provide hands-on experience with streaming technology and the code behind it, with the opportunity to grow into a core development role over time.

Wowza Media Systems is looking for an innovative and motivated candidate for our flagship Wowza Streaming Engine product. We are open to fully remote candidates or employment out of our Golden, CO office location.

What you will be doing:

You’ll gain in-depth knowledge of video streaming technologies while testing and developing automation against an extensive feature set. You’ll help modernize and streamline our development/release process, moving our flagship product from a traditional release model to full CI/CD integration with our Wowza Streaming Cloud service and improving release time for our traditional customers. New features are constantly being added to Wowza Streaming Engine and thus there will be a constant need for new tool and test development. Many things are difficult to automate and success in this position requires a creative mind and lots of technical research.

Wowza Streaming Engine is a media server, transcoder, and video packager which supports a wide variety of codecs, streaming formats, and video packaging standards. Wowza Streaming Engine is implemented in Java and C/C++ with additional automated tests written in Ruby. Complete test coverage requires a complex build and testing system for Linux, Windows, and OSX.

The successful candidate will:

Bring a passion for learning and problem solving

Be motivated by reducing toil and improving delivery through automation – shortening release cycle time and enabling a team to release software with greater frequency and confidence

Identify ways to automate and improve traditionally manual activities while executing functional and regression testing in a variety of supported configurations

Actively identify testing coverage gaps and strive to continuously improve the overall testing approach

Work closely with engineering and product teams to develop, review, and maintain test plans and test cases

Ensure that quality assurance best practices are consistently implemented during development and testing

Assist the support team with customer-facing issue analysis and triage

Work with other Wowza teams such as the Wowza Streaming Cloud team and our Infrastructure as Code team to improve and streamline software delivery

Requirements:

Practical development experience with Java and/or interpreted programming languages (e.g. Ruby, Python)

Knowledge of Linux operating system and comfort with shell scripting and working from the command line

Fluency with version control systems, such as Git and GitHub

Understanding of the Agile development lifecycle and iteration-based development

Superior communication and problem-solving skills along with a desire to continue to learn new technologies

Ability to self-motivate and work independently

Bonus:

Background with CI/CD methodologies and tool sets (e.g. CircleCI, Docker, Kubernetes)

Familiarity with networking concepts and tools

Knowledge of Windows and/or Mac operating systems

Experience with cloud-based computing platforms, such as Amazon Web Services, Azure, and Google Cloud

Experience with streaming media protocols and technologies

Experience with defect tracking systems

Experience developing, maintaining and/or using automation frameworks and tools (e.g. Selenium, page object model)

Experience testing applications on iOS and Android devices

Experience with load and performance testing

Who We Are

Wowza Media Systems is a streaming software, cloud services, and hardware provider aimed at powering live streaming for today’s most innovative companies. We frequent Streaming Media’s list of Companies That Matter Most in Online Video and Readers’ Choice Awards, as well as Built in Colorado’s list of Best Medium Workplaces (with a 4.6 rating on Glassdoor).

Cofounders David Stubenvoll and Charlie Good first set out to create cool stuff with like-minded people in 2005. In the fourteen years that have followed, Wowza’s become the gold standard for streaming. One third of content delivery networks (CDNs) have Wowza’s technology built in and more that 24,000 organizations across the globe power their streaming with Wowza.

With adoption rates exploding, use cases proliferating, and video quality increasing, the streaming industry’s influence on everyday life continues to grow. And when it comes to live video, one thing rings true: If you can dream it, the experts at Wowza can help you build it.

Why Work for Wowza

Wowza’s global team is headquartered in the foothills of Colorado, with plenty of parking and where the deer, elk, and buffalo roam. Generous PTO and paid holidays, a healthy work-life-balance, and a 401K that vests immediately are among the many reasons we love working here.

Employees are encouraged to take ownership of their role with limited oversight — and coworkers are happy to help one another out.

Wowza’s team also works to connect the larger community with our passion for tech. From live-streaming graduation ceremonies for local high schools to participating in events like SheTech, employees are able to cultivate the same creative energy that first brought the company to life.

Wowza Media Systems is an equal opportunity employer, committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment for all people to thrive in.