Backend Developer, Data Services

Position Overview: 

Panopto is seeking an enthusiastic backend software developer to join our Data Services Team. We are looking for someone who loves learning and solving interesting technical challenges to enrich the customer experience and help us build the high-performance services and processing engines that power our clouds across the world.

About the Role:

As a developer on the Data Services Team, you’ll get an opportunity to work and construct components to house the massive amount of analytics data we collect and surface for our customers.  You’ll enable real time and offline query of this data, and build systems to analyze and surface insights from this data for our customers and our business teams.  You’ll focus on making our realtime and offline data systems more robust, performant, cost efficient, and flexible for the future.  You’ll exercise customer focus to understand what our end users need to be successful and ensure those needs are met by the software and systems you and the team build together as a team.

This position requires backend software engineering interest and skills, working with the senior members of the team to understand the requirements and design, and utilizing your coding experience to make sure design objectives are met. Ideal candidates have a strong internet to learn, 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, and 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.

Primary Requirements:

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

• 2-3 years of experience working on projects in a professional environment with the following skillsets:

• Object-oriented programming experience with a focus on C#

• Relational databases on the MS SQL Server platform including some of the following experience: writing SQL queries and stored procedures, optimizing SQL queries and code, indexing, understanding database schemas and ability to make changes

• Experience with Rest API utilizing existing APIs and/or writing new APIs

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

• Exposure and experience with componentization, automated testing, debugging, and coding/designing for fault tolerance

• Experience with SDLC best practices, deployments, incidents, troubleshooting, etc.

• Clear and concise communication skills

How you work / what motivates you:

• Customer focus and a love for solving customer problems

• A love for learning, near-insatiable technical curiosity and a desire to grow

• Collaborating with others to contribute in building something with lasting impact

• Flexible and ability to adapt to improving changes

Extra credit areas of knowledge:

• Cloud platforms such as AWS EC2, S3, CloudWatch, Databases, etc.

• Experience with LINQ-to-SQL and migration to stored procedures

• Experience running either (or both) Windows and Linux systems in production
   

Total Rewards:

In the spirit of pay transparency, Panopto is excited to share the salary range for this position which is $70,000 - $80,000 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 Seattle, with offices in Pittsburgh, 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 individuals 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 on a permanent basis, but have the option to work out of our Pittsburgh office. Panopto's Pittsburgh office which is on the northside of Pittsburgh along the Three Rivers Heritage Trail with quick access to downtown.