Imgix is a chief platform for real-time image management, optimization, and delivery services. Our innovative technology empowers businesses to deliver high-quality visual experiences to their customers across various platforms and devices, anywhere in the world.
Imgix is striving to combine images, data, and intelligence to solve our customers’ problems. You will be working with cutting edge technologies and have the opportunity to greatly impact and influence the direction of the company. You will work closely with the larger engineering team to design, develop, deploy, and operate the high-performance, high-availability media platform that our customers rely on. You will also have the opportunity to operationalize AI technologies and create custom AI models for our clients including some of the largest sites on the internet.
What you’ll be doing:
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Take customer problems, design elegant solutions, break those solutions down into technical deliverables and deliver value to our customers.
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Write clean and well-tested code, with an eye for maintainability and performance.
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Evaluate trade-offs between correctness, robustness, performance and time.
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Contribute thoughtfully to architecture and design decisions for scalable, highly available systems.
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Communicate and collaborate to work effectively in a team.
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Mentor junior and mid-level developers.
What we’re looking for:
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5+ years of experience in C or C++.
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2+ years of experience with Python, Java, Go, C#, or similar.
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Ability to design, develop, administer, and maintain reliable, scalable services that work with massive amounts of visual media on the cloud, across geographic regions.
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Experience with research and experimentation to build proof of concepts that solve business problems, scale them into functional MVPs and bring innovative concepts to life.
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Proven ability to lead projects from specification to delivery while collaborating with other engineers and cross-functional team members.
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Experience working in a fast-paced, high-growth environment that focuses on shipping value to our customers.
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Bonus qualifications:
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Experience writing and debugging GPU shaders.
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Experience with CUDA or compute in Vulkan/OpenGL.
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Familiarity with image recognition or computer vision or OpenCV.
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Experience with creating scalable HTTP APIs.
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Familiarity with AI model training and usage.
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About Imgix:
Imgix is building the future of visual media on the Internet that will combine images, data, and intelligence to solve our customers’ problems. Imgix operates the premier solution to deliver impactful, engaging, highly responsive and super fast imagery to eyeballs around the world. Our service consists of a top tier media delivery platform tightly coupled with Imgix's proprietary, on-demand image and video processing pipeline. It provides customers with the ability to combine the most efficient pixel manipulation render stack with a robust AI feature set to take full advantage of their visual media. Imgix enables our customers to greatly increase the value of their imagery and get back to building awesome things.
The targeted base pay range for this position is $140,000 to $200,000. Our pay ranges reflect the minimum and maximum target for new hire pay for the full-time position calculated by role, level, and location. Your pay is based on additional factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education and/or training. The targeted pay range listed reflects the base pay only and does not include bonus, equity, or benefits.
Imgix currently operates as a mostly remote workplace with employees distributed around the world. In this role, you will join a 100% remote team, while still having the option of being based in our San Francisco office. Employee benefits are comprehensive (401(k), medical, dental, and vision), perks are generous, vacation time is unlimited, parental leave is available and highly encouraged, and salaries are in line with industry norms. We also provide engineers with equipment and peripherals to be effective in their work: funky keyboards, standing desks, and gear to develop on.
For the health and safety of all of our employees, Imgix requires COVID-19 vaccinations for any employee who wishes to work out of the San Francisco office or attend in-person company events.
Imgix is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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What We Do
imgix is the leading visual media platform that businesses choose to improve user experience, website performance, and cost-saving. imgix offers robust image and video processing, global content delivery, and intelligent asset management.
With imgix's powerful APIs, SDKs, Asset Manager, and CDN, you can process images and videos on-the-fly and deliver them worldwide to any device within milliseconds. Our robust Rendering API offers a near-endless combination of intelligent resizing, cropping, stylization, and more. With the best-in-class image and video optimization, you can look forward to better web performance, SEO, and end-user engagements. Furthermore, our Asset Manager allows you to upload assets directly, collaborate more effectively, and search, visualize, and organize assets more easily.
imgix is backed by visionary investors, including Y Combinator, RRE, AceCap, and Tuesday Capital. It was launched through the famed Y Combinator accelerator program. Its customers include Google, Spotify, Netflix, Lyft, Airbnb, Vimeo, and Eventbrite, among others.
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