Software Engineer II

Why We Exist and What We Do

EditShare exists to simplify storytelling. We enable media professionals to collaborate on projects thanks to our ever-expanding range of innovative products and features, all designed to improve production and unleash creativity. Integration and collaboration are central to all products in our comprehensive range of media management solutions - from ingest to archive.

EditShare is seeking a full-time, highly talented developer eager to work on GNU/Linux-based video workflow products in our Warsaw, Poland office. This is a hybrid position that requires at least 2 days a week in our office. Your will be a member of our Storage team working on the Editshare file system (EFS) and its surrounding components. Technologies in our products span the entire computing stack, from low-level kernel modules and optimizations to high-performance distributed storage and network applications, to user-facing client applications.

If you love working on a wide variety of technologies with a small team of motivated engineers, then this may be the job for you.

Problems You’ll Solve

In the first 3 months you will:

• Come up to speed with the Editshare storage architecture and code base.
• Help to evaluate technical options for future features.
• Find and address defects in the storage code base.

In the first 6 months you will:

• Maintain and extend our storage client.
• Pick up and deliver on backlog items.
• Support the rollout of our new ultimate series servers.
• Evaluate an optimize the performance of individual components

In the first 9 months you will:

• Create RESTful endpoints to support a common API for customers’ programmatic clients, our test harnesses, and our emerging Web client
• Contribute to single sign on (SSO) design and implementation for our network storage clients
• Help to improve for our high availability architecture

What We’re Looking For

• 3 to 5 years’ experience in industry with a computer science background or degree.
• Python and either C or C++—our primary programming languages
• Proficiency in English (both written and spoken)

GNU/Linux is our primary platform. If you also have any of the following skills, they are also desirable.

• Experience with client/server applications
• MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, or other open-source databases
• Qt, GTK+, or another open-source GUI toolkit
• JavaScript
• Debian packaging
• Video editing applications such as Avid and Final Cut Pro
• Video codecs and wrappers like MXF and QuickTime

How We Work

At EditShare, our culture is driven by a shared respect for our customers, our people, and our products. We are passionate about our Core Values and believe they empower us to innovate and solve complex problems. We expect all employees to own culture and live by the values.

• Foster Customer Success: We care for our customers, and consider their needs in all our actions.
• Work With Integrity: We believe that being honest with ourselves and others contribute to a healthy work environment and our collective success.
• Be a Great Teammate: We are collaborative, respectful, empathetic, supportive of one another and we lend a hand to everyone we work with.
• Give Your Best Every Day: We strive to bring our best selves & effort on a daily basis, and get fueled by continuous improvement.
• Maintain Work/Life Balance: We encourage our team members to maintain a healthy balance between work and life, and understand that doing so positively impacts their performance and overall job satisfaction.

EditShare is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of any characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.