TuneIn, the world’s leading live audio service, brings together live radio, sports, news, music, podcasts, and audiobooks from around the globe. With more than 75 million monthly active users, TuneIn is one of the world's most widely used audio platforms. TuneIn broadcasts over 100,000 owned & operated and partner radio stations. With premier distribution across 200 platforms and connected devices including Tesla and Alexa, TuneIn empowers listeners to hear what they love wherever they are, including exclusive commercial-free stations from the minds of folks like Garth Brooks. TuneIn Premium subscribers get additional exclusive access to commercial-free news from top networks like CNN, Fox News Radio, MSNBC, and Bloomberg, as well as live, can't-miss F1, MLB, NHL, and college sports. For more information, please visit us at Tunein.com or follow us on Instagram, or X.

The Role

The Streaming Team is responsible for processing, transcoding, and distributing much of TuneIn’s exclusive audio content. We have built a highly-available distributed platform for streaming live audio at internet scale. Our stack is a modern architecture of containerized microservices written in Go running in a Kubernetes cluster using AWS infrastructure (with Lambdas, CloudFront, Aurora, DynamoDB, Kafka, etc.). Our platform must support features such as dynamic ad insertion, dynamic content replacement, and live rewind, and it is designed to play streams 24/7 without interruption for maintenance or events such as node failures. We have a rich golang codebase of over 200K lines of code, with ZERO legacy code to maintain. Our diverse problem set includes real-time streaming, distributed caching, large dataset processing, audio encoding, high availability and fault-tolerance.

In addition we also maintain a web app for stream management and content scheduling, which is used internally by multiple teams at TuneIn.

Scope of Work

You know how to build elastic, robust, and fault-tolerant services that support our unique growth requirements. You stay up-to-date with the latest architectural trends.
You know how to design and construct new microservices from scratch
You feel ownership over everything you ship; you'd never call code "released" until you’re confident it’s correct. You pride yourself on effective monitoring, strong documentation, and thorough test coverage.
You understand requirements beyond the written word. Whether you’re working on an API used by other developers, an internal tool consumed by our operation teams, or a feature used by millions of listeners, your attention to details leads to a delightful user experience.
You thrive when learning new technologies and don’t believe in one-size-fits-all solutions.
You believe that a working proof-of-concept is the best way to make a point.
You embrace DEVOPS philosophy and the use of infrastructure-as-code.
You exercise good technical judgment to foresee and identify potential issues.
You choose to mentor those around you and favor collaboration.
You stay calm under pressure and can handle production escalations effectively (our product is live 24/7!).
You enjoy participating in front-end web development and are confident in your ability to add features and craft User Experience

Requirements

5+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 3 years experience working with scalable and distributed backend systems, and 2+ years of full-stack development
Experience with Javascript/Typescript web development (React is a plus but not required)
Strong foundation in databases, SQL and NoSQL technologies.
Experience building backend services/microservices
Experience designing APIs for use by multiple stakeholders
Experience in Go or an Object-Oriented language (Rust, C++, C#, Java, etc) is required
Experience with AWS is desirable but not necessary
Experience with Kafka is desirable but not necessary
Experience with Kubernetes and Docker are desirable but not necessary
Experience with media encoding standards, containers, and streaming is desirable but not necessary
Experience with HLS streaming is a plus, but not required
Experience with gRPC is a plus, but not required
Superior communication and writing skills

Behaviors

Excel in communication of all forms; as adept a listener as a speaker!
Develop and maintain strong working relationships inside and outside of your team
Think, plan, and manage strategically, balancing technology and business demands, without losing sight of the essential tactical details
Creatively problem solve and see your solutions through to successful implementation
Embrace change and are highly adaptable
Take pride in your work and share your knowledge with others
Act as a trusted leader and a lifelong learner
Embody TuneIn’s values

Our Perks

Health and Wellness Reimbursement
Accounting Reimbursement Program
Continuous Learning Support
Connectivity Allowance
Technology Provision
Home Office Upgrade Assistance

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Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

TuneIn is reinventing radio for a truly connected world by celebrating the human voice. We're an audio leader with a workforce as inclusive as our global audience. By offering unparalleled diversity of perspectives we connect people to the conversations that are most meaningful to them. We’re committed to growing and empowering a more inclusive community within TuneIn. That’s why we hire and cultivate diverse teams of the best and brightest from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We believe that true innovation happens when everyone has room at the table and the tools, resources, and opportunities to excel.