About the role
Behind the feed sits heavy machinery. A GPU encoding service turns the studio's films into HLS renditions. Images are optimised, stored on S3-compatible storage and delivered over a CDN to stores worldwide. Podcasts, subtitles and translations in more than 80 languages move through Cortex, our AI gateway, which routes to several model providers and keeps a dedicated route for China. All of it exists so that a film shot in Paris on Monday plays cleanly on a phone in a Shenzhen boutique on Wednesday.
We are hiring an engineer in Shenzhen to own this layer: the infrastructure the platform runs on (Docker, Caddy, PM2, a staging, develop and master flow with Playwright tests at the gate), the media pipeline, and the deployment inside China with its own database replica. It suits someone who likes production and takes quiet pride in things that do not break.
What you will do
- Run and evolve the video pipeline: GPU encoding, HLS packaging, storage, delivery.
- Own environments and deployments across staging, develop and master, and keep releases boring.
- Keep the China deployment healthy: its replica, its routing, its particular constraints.
- Build observability worth trusting, and prune the alerts until the ones that fire mean something.
- Work with the back-end engineers on capacity, cost and performance as media volume grows.
What we look for
- Years of running production infrastructure that other people relied on every day.
- Real video experience: encoding, HLS, CDNs, and the trade-offs between quality, cost and start time.
- Fluency with Linux, containers and networking, and the reflex to automate anything you have done twice.
- Enough development skill to fix a pipeline from the inside; ours is scripted, versioned and reviewed like the rest of the code.
- Working Mandarin and English, like the rest of the Shenzhen team.
Practicalities
Full-time, based in our Shenzhen office, with three days a week there as the default. The team works in Mandarin and English. Start as soon as you can.
How to apply
Write to careers@tolduntold.com with 'Platform & Media Engineer' in the subject line. Send whatever shows your work best: a pipeline you built, a post-mortem you wrote, a repository, a diagram of something you ran at scale. We read every message and reply to all.