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At imgix, we’re passionate about delivering the Internet’s best visual experiences by building the world’s largest distributed image-processing pipeline. The imgix service makes images on the Internet impactful, engaging, responsive, and super performant. Learn more about imgix
Openings at imgix
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Engineering – Imaging
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Engineering – Infrastructure
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Engineering – Product
More about imgix
At imgix, we’re passionate about delivering the Internet’s best visual experiences by building the world’s largest distributed image-processing pipeline. The imgix service makes images on the Internet impactful, engaging, responsive, and super performant. Learn more about imgix
Image Processing Engineer
imgix is looking for a graphics-minded engineer to join our image processing team. In this role, you will work closely with the larger Infrastructure team which builds and operates the high-performance, high-availability image platform that powers image delivery for some of the largest sites on the internet.
The imaging team is responsible for every single crop, resize, mask, and transformation of the billions of images we serve every day. You will be working on the core of our imaging service, which will give you the opportunity to impact every image we serve as well as influence future direction in our image operations.
About you:
- Interested in images and other media formats
- Self starter - you must be able to take projects or features, break them down, and drive them to a proper conclusion
- 2+ year(s) of experience with image processing algorithms and image file format APIs
- Proficient in C/C++
- Experience with macOS and/or Linux
- Nice to have: Familiarity with image recognition or computer vision, knowledge of Python or Lua, experience programming GPUs
About the role:
- Research and implement algorithms for image transformations with an eye towards performance and compression
- Stay abreast of developments in the image processing space, including image formats, computer vision, and new hardware
- Make recommendations on new image operation features and how they would interact with existing implementations
- Help architect and maintain cross-platform development and compatibility
imgix is building the future of visual media on the Internet. 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 image delivery platform tightly coupled with imgix's proprietary, on-demand image processing pipeline. It provides customers with great design flexibility while reducing the engineering investment required to serve state-of-the-art visual media. imgix enables our customers to greatly increase the value of their imagery and get back to building awesome things.
We are located in downtown San Francisco, close to BART, Caltrain, and a really good sandwich place. Employee benefits are comprehensive (401k, medical, dental and vision), perks are generous (catered lunches, paid rides home, the occasional team outing), vacation time is flexible, and salaries are commensurate with experience. We also provide employees with anything they (reasonably) need to be effective in their work: funky keyboards, standing desks, a desk cactus, and maybe even a laptop. The troposphere is the limit.
Site Reliability Engineer
imgix is looking for an experienced Service Reliability Engineer to join our Infrastructure Engineering team. In this role, you will work closely with other members of the Infrastructure team to build and operate the high performance, high availability infrastructure that powers image delivery for some of the largest sites on the Internet.
The imgix Infrastructure team is responsible for building and operating the core imgix service and for encouraging operational best practices in the larger engineering organization. We seek experienced engineers who have strong professional skill sets and who are passionate about making positive contributions to the evolution of the company as a whole.
We are looking for:
- Experience building and operating large-scale consumer-facing production environments with a focus on service quality, performance, and uptime.
- In-depth knowledge of at least one of: CDNs, logging and metrics pipeline, monitoring, HTTP, high-performance web services, customer-facing APIs, infrastructure security.
- Nice to have (but not required) experience in one or more of: Ansible, Prometheus, Grafana, HAProxy, Varnish, Python.
About the role:
- Build and operate highly reliable and performant distributed systems at scale.
- Observe and measure the imgix infrastructure for performance, reliability and correctness.
- Contribute expertise towards architectural planning and ensure that the company builds sustainable services that meet our objectives while leveraging the right tools and frameworks.
- Foster and promote operational awareness throughout the larger engineering organization.
- Actively participate in the review and testing process for our production services.
imgix is building the future of visual media on the Internet. 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 image delivery platform tightly coupled with imgix's proprietary, on-demand image processing pipeline. It provides customers with great design flexibility while reducing the engineering investment required to serve state-of-the-art visual media. imgix enables our customers to greatly increase the value of their imagery and get back to building awesome things.
We are located in downtown San Francisco, close to BART, Caltrain, and a really good sandwich place. Employee benefits are comprehensive (401k, medical, dental and vision), perks are generous (catered lunches, paid rides home, the occasional team outing), vacation time is flexible, and salaries are commensurate with experience. We also provide employees with anything they (reasonably) need to be effective in their work: funky keyboards, standing desks, a desk cactus, and maybe even a laptop. The troposphere is the limit.
Developer Relations Software Engineer
imgix is looking for a polyglot programmer with a passion for open-source software development. Your responsibility would be to manage and maintain imgix’s publicly available SDK—comprised of client libraries in a variety of languages and other helpful tools. The individual components of the SDK run the gamut of popular languages and frameworks, providing an easy way for developers to integrate imgix into their own services and applications.
Because these libraries are a core component of the imgix product, this role is an opportunity to substantially contribute to the success of the company and our customers.
About You:
- 3+ years of experience in an engineering role focused on building or maintaining an SDK (ideally external customer facing)
- Substantial expertise in some of the languages used by projects listed at https://docs.imgix.com/libraries
- Of particular interest:
- JavaScript
- Ruby
- Python
- Java
- Of particular interest:
- Excitement to learn new languages and frameworks, and a particular focus on adopting language-specific idiomatic design patterns, test methods, and package deployment processes
- Experience with open source project participation and a desire to build healthy communities around imgix’s open source offerings
- Familiarity with best practices for managing release-driven, widely-distributed software libraries
About The Role:
- Work with developers who use these projects to identify, prioritize, and implement feature improvements
- Maintain our portfolio of client libraries and integration tools, comprising the imgix SDK
- Create and implement stronger development processes across all of the constituent parts of the imgix SDK
- Monitor industry trends and help determine when new libraries or platform integrations would be beneficial to imgix’s developer base
imgix is building the future of visual media on the Internet. imgix operates the premier solution to deliver impactful, engaging, highly responsive and super fast imagery to eyeballs around the world. The service consists of a top tier image delivery platform tightly coupled with imgix's proprietary, on-demand image processing pipeline. It provides customers with great design flexibility while reducing the engineering investment required to serve state-of-the-art visual media. imgix enables our customers to greatly increase the value of their imagery and get back to building awesome things.
We are located in downtown San Francisco, close to BART, Caltrain, and a really good sandwich place. Employee benefits are comprehensive (401k, medical, dental and vision), perks are generous (catered lunches, paid rides home, the occasional team outing), vacation time is flexible, and salaries are commensurate with experience. We also provide employees with anything they (reasonably) need to be effective in their work: funky keyboards, standing desks, a desk cactus, and maybe even a laptop. The troposphere is the limit.
Software Engineer (Python)
The imgix team is looking for a motivated engineer to join the backend team in expanding and maintaining the imgix service, which solves images for some of the largest sites on the Internet.
The backend team at imgix is responsible for building and maintaining the Python-based backend, which manages all customer account requests, including sign-up, onboarding, service configuration, billing, and analytics. We are looking for engineers who are not only strong technically, but who also care and think about product and how we can solve problems for our customers.
About You:
- Interested in designing, developing, and delivering tested, maintainable code
- Enjoy working with other developers and team members
- Comfortable developing in Python (or similar)
- Like to solve problems, both through writing code and using already existing resources
- Practical enough to know when to stop polishing code and ship it
- Believe in the value of unit, integration, and functional testing
About the Role:
- Build, test, and deploy our Python-based account management API service
- Provide and document API endpoints for the frontend engineering team
- Optimize code paths and database queries for maximum performance
- Collaborate with other developers, product, design, and sales on designing solutions to solve problems for imgix customers
- Contribute to knowledge sharing, both within engineering and with the rest of the company
- Technologies include Python, Tornado, mongoDB, MySQL
imgix is building the future of visual media on the Internet. imgix operates the premier solution to deliver impactful, engaging, highly responsive and super fast imagery to eyeballs around the world. The service consists of a top tier image delivery platform tightly coupled with imgix's proprietary, on-demand image processing pipeline. It provides customers with great design flexibility while reducing the engineering investment required to serve state-of-the-art visual media. imgix enables our customers to greatly increase the value of their imagery and get back to building awesome things.
We are located in downtown San Francisco, close to BART, Caltrain, and a really good sandwich place. Employee benefits are comprehensive (401k, medical, dental and vision), perks are generous (catered lunches, paid rides home, the occasional team outing), vacation time is flexible, and salaries are commensurate with experience. We also provide employees with anything they (reasonably) need to be effective in their work: funky keyboards, standing desks, a desk cactus, and maybe even a laptop. The troposphere is the limit.
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