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Senior Software Developer (Job Req #2025-046)

Ross Video

Ross Video

Software Engineering
Ottawa, ON, Canada
Posted on Nov 8, 2024

Senior Software Developer (Job Req #2025-046)

Ottawa Campus, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Req #1999
Tuesday, November 5, 2024

Why Work at Ross Video? We have a great group of people working together to create and deliver cutting edge products that look amazing and are easy to use. We go all out so that our customers can have the best possible experience and achieve quality results. With a product focus, continual learning, results driven processes, and creative thinking, we constantly strive to improve our solutions and to deliver results. If you've ever watched live television, news, sports, or entertainment, you've seen our products in use. All of the major Hollywood award shows, most professional sports teams, and many of the largest broadcasters in the world use Ross Video technology. Get behind the scenes and learn about what it takes to make live events possible. If that resonates, and you’re someone with integrity, commitment, and a strong drive to deliver great products, we’d love to hear from you.

We’re driving innovation in live video production by developing advanced tools to empower hybrid and cloud-based workflows. Our goal is to redefine how live production environments are deployed and managed, delivering solutions that enhance flexibility, reliability, security, and scalability for broadcasters and media companies worldwide.

We are looking for a self-motivated, experienced full stack developer with a strong background in service-oriented architecture, infrastructure-as-code, and cloud native platform development. This role requires a strong understanding of the technical and operational challenges in deploying and managing live video production environments, both on-premises and in the cloud.

As a Senior Software Developer, you’ll be a key member of our team that is designing and building a scalable, service-based platform for provisioning, deploying, and configuring complex production environments. Your expertise will be critical in creating a high-performance, adaptable, and resilient tool that meets the dynamic needs of live production customers.

Who you report to: Senior Manager, Software Development

What we offer:

Ross offers competitive salaries and comprehensive health plans, as well as several perks to help you perform at your best.

Some of these perks include flexible hours, generous paid time off, fitness/wellness allowance, employee share ownership program, development support and a ton of fun social activities and events!

Best of all, you will be part of the Ross Video family, and we’ve got a pretty energizing environment here.

What the job is all about:

  • Develop and implement solutions for provisioning, configuring, and deploying hybrid and cloud production environments that meet the demands of real-time, high-performance media workflows.
  • Implement best practices to ensure platform security, reliability, maintainability, and scalability in on premises, cloud, and hybrid environments.
  • Use cloud-native approaches, incorporating microservices, containerization, and orchestration as appropriate to optimize performance and scalability.
  • Collaborate with other engineers, fostering an environment of teamwork, technical excellence, continuous improvement and innovation.
  • Assist efforts in unifying company’s approach to infrastructure, application and workflow orchestration by collaborating with cross-functional teams to develop aligned integration strategies.

Who you are:

  • Proven Experience: 8+ years in software engineering, with at least 3 years in a development role focused on cloud-based platform development.
  • Technical Expertise: Proficient in cloud-native technology and best practices, including CI/CD pipelines, containerization, microservices, and deployment tools like Kubernetes, Docker, and Terraform.
  • Cloud Platforms: Extensive experience with AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure, including building scalable solutions using platform SDKs and APIs.
  • Service-based Architecture: Experience in building platforms that leverage service-based architectures to achieve modularity and scalability.
  • Programming Languages: Strong proficiency in languages commonly used in cloud-based application development (e.g., Python, Go, NodeJS, or React).
  • Deployment Automation: Experience with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) practices to support deployment automation and scalability.
  • Proactive self-starter: Passionate about technology, quick learner, and can work collaboratively with team members in meeting schedules and project deadlines.
  • Preferred Experience: Familiarity with real-time, dynamic production workflows and the challenges deploying and managing these workflows across on premises, hybrid and cloud environments.

Equity, Diversity & Inclusion
At Ross, we embrace diversity, and we want you to bring your authentic self to work. We are committed to building a team that includes a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. Inclusivity drives innovation and creativity, and that’s something we’re passionate about at Ross! We believe everyone should be able to enjoy a rewarding career at Ross, regardless of race, colour, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, marital status, age, veteran status, physical or mental disability. If a disability means that you need any additional support during the recruitment process, please contact Talent Acquisition and we will make all reasonable efforts to accommodate your request.

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