Video lies at the heart of the Gather experience, providing a low-latency, seamless experience for the spontaneous interactions we're known for. Our video infrastructure handles thousands of concurrent users, spanning all continents of the world.

Unlike traditional room-based video infrastructure, our video infra allows any two users to have a directional audio/video connection — enabling experiences such as podiums, where a speaker can address a large audience while the audience remains quiet to the speaker, yet the audience can still mingle amongst their neighbors, just like in real life. Our video infrastructure spans 4 data centers, ~500 servers, and features an SFU-based design built in-house.

ABOUT the role

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As a video systems engineer, you would take responsibility (along with a small team) for the design and implementation of this integral part of our product.

Where you'll make an impact:

• Increase the maximum number of simultaneous videos we can reliably display to users beyond our current maximum of 9.
• Increase the maximum size of a reliable fully connected audio conversation beyond our current maximum of 20.
• Increase the quality of videos we can reliably display to users.
• Increase the maximum size of broadcasts from our current limit of 1-to-200 by forwarding streams between SFUs.
• Degrade quality more gracefully for bandwidth or CPU constrained devices, as well as better handling of spurious spikes in latency/congestion.
• Make the system better able to recover from various faults and errors
• Set up metrics to get a better handle on what quality of service our users are experiencing, and to inform further improvements.
• Build automated tests to ensure the reliability and performance of our video infrastructure as we change it

ABOUT you

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• Experience working on a large scale group video calling platform like Zoom or Google Meet
• Experience working with WebRTC, either directly or with libraries that use it
• Intrinsic motivation and drive to solve difficult problems without guidance
• A keen intuition for well designed software
• Ability to ruthlessly prioritize in a chaotic and ambiguous environment
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills