Sr.SoftwareEngineer

VERSANT (Nasdaq: VSNT) is an industry-changing media and entertainment business and home to trusted brands that shape culture, inform audiences, and build lasting connections. It operates across four core markets: political news and opinion, business news and personal finance, golf, and sports and genre entertainment. These markets are served through a powerful portfolio of iconic and innovative brands, including CNBC, MS NOW, USA Network, Golf Channel, Oxygen, E!, SYFY, and Versant’s sports division USA Sports, along with complementary digital assets including Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, GolfNow and GolfPass. We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Video Encoding and Delivery team, where you will contribute to the systems that ingest, encode, package, and deliver premium video content for millions of users across VOD, AVOD, and Live workflows. Your focus will be on developing and optimizing our video ingestion , encoding , packaging , and validation services, ensuring efficient, secure, and reliable video delivery across a wide range of devices and platforms. You will work closely with the team’s Principal Engineer and collaborate across engineering, infrastructure, and quality domains to evolve our cloud-based media pipeline. This is a hands-on role ideal for an experienced backend or media systems engineer who takes pride in clean, maintainable code and thrives in high-performance, distributed environments. What Role Will You Play? As a Senior Software Engineer, you will: * Build and enhance our video ingestion , encoding , packaging , and validation systems to support scalable, secure, and standards-compliant video delivery (e.g., DASH, HLS, CMAF). * Own features and services that manage the content lifecycle—from ingestion through final packaging and readiness for playback. * Integrate seamlessly with ad-related workflows, ensuring proper signaling and playback behavior. * Collaborate with other engineering teams to optimize compatibility and perfo