Sr. Software Engineer, Core Services

As a Senior Software Engineer you'll work closely with other members of the Core Services team to help build new backend services to power Vimeo's high-performance infrastructure as well as improve the performance of existing services. We serve hundreds of petabytes of video a month, with over 1.5 millennia of content uploaded each year. You'll help to ensure the Vimeo plumbing allows our developers to move quickly while maintaining the stability, availability, performance, and usability of the current system.

What you'll do:

• You'll help to plan service implementation and design, and work with the rest of the team to ensure the plan is workable.
• In your first 90 days you'll be working with multiple teams to enhance and scale existing services. You may embed with our API, data, or product teams to help them build new services and answer questions about existing frameworks that Core Services maintains.
• By the end of your first year, there will be multiple services (written in Go) up and running that you were responsible for building. You'll have worked with teams across Vimeo's tech and product teams to ensure they are transitioning their services smoothly
• Day-to-day, you'll be using your deep knowledge of service-oriented architectures, Golang, and distributed systems to plan and build core components and architecture. You'll build the infrastructure that is used throughout Vimeo to help us shed legacy baggage and ensure our app is performant as we iterate and evolve.

Skills and knowledge you should possess:

• 5+ years of production-level GCP or AWS expertise
• 5+ years of production-level Golang and one other of PHP/Python/Ruby/C++ is a must
• 5+ years of experience with cluster managers like Kubernetes is a must
• Experience working with high-throughput, high-availability, and cloud-deployed distributed applications
• Microservice implementation and design experience
• Deep understanding of REST, GRPC, how the Internet works: TCP/IP, HTTP, TLS, DNS
• Strong Linux/UNIX fundamentals
• SOA and service deployment

Bonus points (nice skills to have, but not needed):

• Experience with Linux containerization technologies
• Experience with Google Cloud Spanner database
• Experience with distributed metrics systems like Graphite, Statsd, or Prometheus

Base Salary Range:

• NYC Metro, Bay Area, Seattle, & Los Angeles: $150,000 - $207,000
• All other US cities outside above metro areas: $135,000 - $186,300

At Vimeo, we strive to hire and nurture amazing talent across the globe. Actual salaries will vary depending on factors including but not limited to experience, specialized skills, internal alignment, and location.

Base salary is just one component of Vimeo's total rewards philosophy. We offer a wide range of benefits and perks that appeal to the variety of needs across our diverse employee base! Other rewards may include variable compensation and Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).

We also offer paid time off, generous 401k match, commuter benefits, Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Account (FSA), fertility reimbursement, group term life insurances, wellbeing resources, and more.