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Location:  Denver  Tech Stack: C++/Java, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Azure Team Size: 10 Engineers (EU-based) Travel: up to 25% Bitmovin is a global Series-C SaaS scale-up that provides award-winning video streaming technology to world-renowned brands and managed service providers. Our solution suite consists of Live and VOD Encoding, a Multi-Platform Player, and Analytics platform; enabling content owners to redefine the viewer experience through API-based workflow optimization, fast turnaround, and scalability.  We have seen great success and created great momentum in the market. This is down to our products, ecosystem, but ultimately our people who love video streaming. “We are constantly seeking out forward thinking individuals who want to shape the future of video… come and work with us!” Stefan Lederer, CEO At Bitmovin we value cognitive diversity and the huge part this plays in not only creating a global culture second to none, but in how this underpins our ability to create truly representative, Emmy award winning products. Diversity in all its forms is encouraged and celebrated at Bitmovin; everyone has a role to play in helping us shape the future of video.   Why will your impact matter?  At Bitmovin , we’re redefining how the world streams video. Our Emmy award-winning technology powers video for household names like Red Bull Media House, RTL, and Technicolor — and we’re just getting started. You'll be a senior engineer on our Encoding team, shipping production code in the core encoding product (Java/Kotlin, C++) that runs at massive cloud scale (VOD and live, AV1/HEVC). Our engineering team is in Europe. You'll be our senior engineer on the ground in the US: contributing in the team's sprints, and owning the technical relationship with our largest US media and streaming customers during hours when Europe is offline. It's a real engineering role with direct customer ownership, and it's the first of its kind at Bitmovin, so you'll shape how it works. This is the first Forward Deployed Engineer at Bitmovin — a greenfield role where you'll define the playbook, not inherit one. You'll sit inside our Encoding engineering team, shipping production code in its sprints, while being the technical face of Bitmovin for our marquee US media and streaming customers. When Europe is offline, you're the one keeping US enterprise accounts moving: triaging encoding issues, driving incidents to resolution or a clean handover, and turning what you learn in the field into better product.   What you’ll do: Contribute production code to the encoding stack (Java/Kotlin, C++) as a full member of the Encoding team's sprints Own our US enterprise accounts technically during EU off-hours: triage and troubleshoot encoding issues, drive incidents to resolution or a clean handover Debug live, distributed systems under real customer pressure: log analysis, error diagnosis, network traces, reproducing issues from limited information Travel to customer sites to support integrations, run technical workshops, and handle escalations Feed what you learn in the field back into sprint planning and the product roadmap What success looks like (6–12 months):   You're shipping production code in the Encoding team's sprints, not just triaging issues You've become the trusted US technical contact for our largest media and streaming accounts, and off-hours response times have visibly improved You've defined a repeatable playbook for triage, resolve-vs-escalate, and clean handovers to the EU team You've run at least one on-site customer integration or workshop end to end Field learnings from your accounts have shaped sprint planning or the roadmap at least  once The EU team trusts you to own US hours solo. Your async updates are clear enough that Europe picks up where you left off without friction. You've built a