Yandex's video platform is one of the main traffic generators of the Russian internet. We develop the infrastructure that all major Yandex services use to display video content. We serve hundreds of thousands of users simultaneously, while distributing terabits of traffic per second.

What tasks await you

• Developing services for storing content metadata and uploading user videos;
• Improving the authorization service and the verification of rights and licensing restrictions when viewing content;
• Developing the transcoding service that processes tens of thousands of videos per day;
• Training algorithms for determining video codec parameters.

We expect you to

• Know Go and Python (or know only one but want to code in both);
• Be able and willing to read C++ code, including the source code of external components;
• Have developed within the paradigm of microservice architecture;
• Know classic algorithms and data structures.

Will be a plus

• Familiarity with modern video streaming standards;
• Have encoded video using ffmpeg;
• Have built high-load systems;
• Have experience with multithreaded or asynchronous programming;
• Know SRE and DevOps practices.