Every day, Imagine Communications delivers billions of media moments all over the world anywhere, anytime and on any device. Imagine Communications delivers innovative, end-to-end media software and networking solutions to over 3,000 customers in more than 185 countries, including the top broadcast facilities and the most technologically advanced sports and liveevent venues. Why Imagine? Imagine Communications offers a generous Medical, Dental, Vision and Life Insurance package. We like to make sure all our employees are safe when travelling so weve got travel insurance covered too. Employee Wellbeing is a priority for us, so all employees and their family have access to our EAP and Wellness programs, including LifeSpeak and Vitality. Volunteer in your community and we will pay for that too. Imagine Communications is seeking a Senior Software Engineer with deep C++ expertise to join our engineering team in Toronto, Canada or Cambridge, UK (both locations are remote friendly). This role focuses on high-performance development for realtime broadcast and media processing systems. The successful candidate will design, implement, optimise and maintain highbandwidth stream processing microservices that demand high CPU, memory and network stack efficiency, within an existing microservices framework, while collaborating closely with crossfunctional teams. Responsibilities & Qualifications Design, develop, and maintain highperformance backend components in modern C++. Implement and optimise realtime stream processing microservices within an existing microservice framework to deliver high bandwidth, low latency media processing. Analyse and improve CPU utilisation, memory usage, network stack and kernel interactions and overall system performance. Profile and troubleshoot complex C++ applications to identify bottlenecks and inefficiencies. Develop and maintain RESTbased services and interfaces. Work within Linux environments to build, debug, and deploy software solutions. Maintain and extend Bash scripting microservices orchestration layer. Collaborate with QA, DevOps, and product teams to ensure robust feature delivery. Participate in code reviews and contribute to continuous improvement of code quality and architecture. Support ongoing code maintenance, refactoring, and technical debt reduction. Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience. Seniorlevel experience in backend software development using modern C++. Strong expertise in multithreaded programming and concurrency concepts. Proven experience developing near realtime or highperformance systems. Solid understanding of CPU performance, memory management, Linux scheduling and application profiling techniques. Handson experience working on realtime or near realtime processing in Linux environments. Experience implementing or consuming REST APIs (Microsoft C++ REST SDK or similar frameworks). Strong knowledge of TCP/IP networking fundamentals. Excellent debugging, analytical, and problemsolving skills. Proficiency with Bash scripting. Strong communication skills and ability to work effectively in Agile teams. The following experience is considered an asset Experience with highperformance networking 100Gb/sec+, InfiniBand, RDMA, OFED, Ibverbs Experience in broadcast or media processing environments. Familiarity with SMPTE ST 2110, SMPTE 20226, playout, ingest, or transcoding technologies Familiarity with video processing technologies including FFmpeg (or similar) framework Exposure to UI or weblayer development. Celebrating difference, together stronger: At Imagine Communications, we dont just accept difference we celebrate it, we support it, and we thrive on it for the benefit of our customers, our employees, our products, and our communities. We are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect. Imagine Communications is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. #J-18808-Ljbffr
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Senior Software Engineer