Research Software Engineering

In these turbulent times, great employee video communication is crucial for enterprises to create engagement and alignment to survive and succeed. At Hive Streaming we are proud to offer a relevant solution to this demand. We help multiple Fortune 500 customers understand, secure, and optimize their video experience on a daily basis.

We are now looking for a Research Software Engineer, focusing on Distribution Systems, to join our Video Optimization team in Stockholm.



What is Hive Video Optimization?

Hive Video Optimization provides market leading software-only zero-configuration enterprise video optimization technology for both office and working-from-home viewers.

Maximizing the reach and quality of streaming video communication is crucial for employee engagement and organizational alignment and doing it without overloading the network is a must. Our pledge is to optimize and deliver live and on-demand video streams in every way possible to achieve this. At the core of our technology lie our patented peer-to-peer distribution algorithms that help delivering high quality video to millions of enterprise viewers every month.



What to expect

You can expect an atmosphere of creativity and innovation together with fantastic workplace diversity here at Hive Streaming. Today, we have over 30 nationalities among our 90 co-workers around the globe. You will be the 5th member in the Video Optimization team in Stockholm consisting of full stack engineers and experienced researchers. You will be working closely with the Team Lead, Riccardo Reale.



We will offer you…

- An innovative and dynamic customer-centric workplace where we empower one another.
- A fast-paced scale-up within a global context.
- Onboarding training and collaboration with experienced colleagues.
- Development opportunities, since we just keep growing.




Working as a Research Software Engineer

As a Research Software Engineer, you will have a focus on Video Streaming, Distribution Systems and Networking. You will work closely with the team and lead investigations to enhance our product performance. You will build and evaluate proof-of-concepts and bring them in production together with the rest of the team.

You will also..

- Implement and maintain tools and services to continuously monitor our algorithms performance in production.
- Develop and maintain the optimization-related code base.
- Focus on what happens with video data and how video is transported from glass-to-glass.




Previous Experience

- BSc/MSc/Ph.D. Engineering degree in a relevant field, Distributed Systems or another relevant field
- A strong interest in Distributed Systems, Networking and Video Streaming
- Experience in software programming practices and knowledge, preferably in Scala/Java, Python and/or TypeScript
- Fluent in English, both written and spoken




General information

- Employment: Full-time
- Start: Position available now
- Salary and benefit: Competitive with subsidized health activities etc.
- Contact information (to the recruiter): alixandra.halvarsson@hivestreaming.com