We’ve got the internet, smartphones, and self-driving cars. Yet our pets are still chewing the same toys as 20 years ago. With a lot of passion for pets and technology, we founded Petcube in 2012, to create pet products for the XXI century.
A pet camera is an obvious one to start with. It’s like a smartphone for your pet. Allows you to stay connected anytime, and monitors your pet all day long. It can spot a health issue or distract your pet form an unwanted behavior. And once there’s enough data — it can be possible to literally understand how your pet feels.
In 2018 we went further and launched Petcube Care platform, where we feature other pet products we’re excited about. There’s definitely more need for innovation in pet space than any single company can handle, so it should be a collaborative effort.
We need The Video Streaming Craftsman who will help to shape and scale our
products’ core functionality into a piece of engineering art that other IoT
companies would crave for.
**What’s Petcube Team?**
We create IoT products for pets and their pet parents since 2012, and strive
for such quality as Apple has set for consumer electronics that people love.
Amidst the pandemic we succeeded to launch a new camera Petcube Cam. Its sales
are now rocketing so fast that our streaming platform’s stability and
scalability require a truly space-tech upgrade.
So we are growing the product team, and Video Streaming Engineer will become
its cornerstone.
**Why should I join?**
● We walked the startup path from 0 to 1 through several crises, and level-up
our product quality with each next launch.
● Our business = Internet of Things + SaaS for hundreds of thousands of
customers, and there’s everything tech inside: hardware, firmware, backend,
apps, video streaming, payments, chatbots, ML.
● With our team, you’ll get so much experience in a single year that with
other products is gained for three years, leave aside the outsourcing.
● You’ll get the whole team’s support WITHOUT the bureaucratic hurdles.
● We’re working remotely, and we have cool “Lab” with cameras farm,
microchips, and other reasons to socialize
● When our tech will understand dogs and cats better than humans can, you’ll
be able to mention your contribution in this breakthrough not without a bit of
vanity
**What are the expectations?**
● You have 5+ years of engineering experience
● You contributed significantly to at least one video streaming core of the
product(s) with 100k+ users
● You have mastered the video/audio streaming stack end-to-end, and you’re
fluent in C/C++ to craft the embedded or mobile lib, and python/go/other
languages relevant for backend.
● These tech standards are not just some theory for you: WebRTC, SIP,
RTP/RTCP, MPEG, H264, SRTP (maybe you can mention more?)
● You can tell what are these abbreviations and what typical uses and
challenges stand behind each of them: STUN, TURN, ICE, SDP, NAT.
● For you, signaling is primarily about servers, not about animals
communicating to find a partner
● You are hands-on with optimizing media transmission performance and
strengthening security.
● For you, the platform is part of the product, which means aligning with
business context and other components, and taking a lead where the streaming
core sets the game rules for the rest.
● You know the time to design and the time to develop and leverage OOD to
prepare concise APIs and libs.
● Testing is not just for testers, you make use of unit, integration, stress
and other useful types of testing, and align on it with QA team.
● The test and production data is your best advisor, you honor proper logging
and know how to build highly usable dashboards that warn about upcoming issues
before customers bring them to the support team.
● Documenting is not a dull burden, but your tool that helps to scale the
platform, discuss and make decisions with fellow engineers.
● You don’t walk past the potential problems, and suggest the optimal
preventive solutions, with respect to constraints and priorities.
● You prefer direct conversation but keep up the minimal formalities for
quality and traceability.
● The discussed and agreed responsibility is more important for you than the
formal position.
● If your team lacks some narrow expertise, you find a way to cover it
together.
**What will I work on?**
● The video streaming core of our products - simple, mighty, beautiful. The
platform that serves hundreds of thousands of customers.
● You’ll join our quest for optimal architecture and balance between proven
off-the-shelf solutions and components specific to our business needs.
● You’ll be at the heart of our efforts to deliver seamless customer
experience, on par with Zoom / Skype / Google Meet, and astonishing the direct
competition like Google Nest and Amazon’s Ring.
● The team you’ll work with, overcomes such productions challenges that
sometimes 3rd party vendors come unprepared for our questions
And if the resulting solution excels, we are seriously thinking about turning
it into Platform as a Service.