Backend Developer, Cloud Services

Position Overview: 

Panopto is seeking a backend software developer to join our Cloud Services and Infrastructure Engineering team. We are looking for someone who loves solving interesting technical challenges and enabling compelling customer experiences to help us build the high-performance services and processing engines that power our clouds across the world.

About the Role:

As a developer, you’ll be tasked with ensuring that all of our scalable systems remain robust while consistently delivering quick turnaround for an ever growing stream of requests and millions of hours of content a month. You’ll have opportunities to further simplify and streamline our ability to maintain our product, and to build fundamental architectural cornerstones that will empower the rest of the development team.

This position will benefit from backend software engineering skills, drawing on knowledge of coding and doing technical designs in high scale systems. Ideal candidates have a strong attention to detail and desire to get to the bottom of how things work, a drive to take action and improve things where they can, along with a natural focus on ensuring an excellent customer experience. If you’re interested in working on a rapidly evolving system loaded with interesting challenges and complex problems, we want to talk to you.

This role will participate in our on-call rotation and be expected to respond to alerts outside of normal business hours when on-call.

About You:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or an equivalent amount of experience/training

• Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS)

• Computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, parallel or distributed systems

• Software engineering skills: componentization, automated testing, debugging, and coding/designing for fault tolerance

• Clear and concise communication skills

• A track record of, and passion for, transparency

How you work / what motivates you:

• Customer focus and a love for solving customer problems

• Ability to rapidly prototype ideas and write quality code

• A security oriented mindset and desire to build robust and secure systems

• Collaborating with others to build something with lasting impact

• A love for learning and a desire to grow and to help improve the team around you

Extra credit areas of knowledge:

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible, Chef, etc.

• Relational database expertise -- developing in the data layer and writing ad-hoc queries

• Experience in automation frameworks (such as Jenkins)

• Experience with caching systems and web servers

• Experience running both Windows and Linux systems

• Experience developing in Python

• Technical design skills in backend and high-scale systems

• A willingness to take on, drive, and maintain a variety of large and small projects

Total Rewards:

In the spirit of pay transparency, Panopto is excited to share the salary range for this position which is $100,000 - $120,000 USD per year. This salary range may include multiple levels. Your level is based on our assessment of your interview performance, skills, experience, and/or location. Salary is just one component of Panopto’s total compensation package for employees. Your total rewards package at Panopto will include comprehensive health benefits for you and your dependents, 401k match, unlimited PTO, and more. All employees participate in our annual bonus program. A full list of our total reward offerings can be found at Panopto Careers. 

Panopto is committed to pay equity and transparency. We explicitly do not negotiate salary outside of the defined range to ensure that we aren’t introducing bias that could lead to pay inequities within the team between candidates who have different negotiation tactics.

About Panopto:

We believe that video can have a transformative effect on learning. So we built a video platform that helps businesses and universities improve the way that they train, teach, and share knowledge. Since 2007, we have been a pioneer in video capture software, video management, and inside-video-search technology. Panopto has been adopted by more than 1,500 companies and universities worldwide with over ten million end users. Today, Panopto’s video management system is the largest repository of expert learning videos in the world. Headquartered in Pittsburgh, with offices in London, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Sydney, Panopto has received industry recognition for its innovation, rapid growth, and company culture.
Panopto’s mission is to help anyone share knowledge using video. Our user base is as diverse as the world’s universities and businesses. To fulfill our mission with the best products and services, we eagerly seek people who bring diversity of background, experience, and thought to create an engaging work environment, foster innovation and better understand and meet the needs of our users. We encourage people from underrepresented and/or marginalized backgrounds, including BIPOC, LatinX, LGBTQ+, women, and people with disabilities, to apply.
Panopto is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Candidates looking for flexible or remote-friendly positions are encouraged to apply. Employees in this position are eligible to work remotely within the United States on a permanent basis, but have the option to work out of our Pittsburgh office. Panopto's Pittsburgh office is located on the northside of Pittsburgh along the Three Rivers Heritage Trail with quick access to downtown.