Sr Software Engineer - API (All Genders)

Company Description

Dailymotion is more than a video app, it's a visual conversation in motion, based on a unique algorithm designed to broaden users' horizons. Dailymotion brings nuance to the debates that animate young people and puts listening, discovery, and kindness back at the heart of interactions to help build a better and safer Internet.

Dailymotion is also "Dailymotion Pro", a video hosting and broadcasting solution for professionals in all sectors; and "Dailymotion Advertising", a powerful, proprietary video advertising platform, offering a high-quality, secure environment for brands.

Our team is made up of 400 people in France, New York, and Singapore, all united by the same ambition: to visibly shake up the global video platform ecosystem.
 

At Dailymotion, our team of talented individuals from over 40 nationalities embraces four core values every day:

• Opening Perspectives: We love connecting different ideas and people, supporting freedom of speech, and inclusivity, and celebrating diverse cultures.

• Making Bold Moves: We’re daring and ambitious, ready to take unique steps that bring noticeable improvements to our platform.

• Building a Safer World: Empathy guides us. We care deeply about each other and are dedicated to creating a safe and supportive community.

• Creating Meaning: We spark curiosity and joy in everything we do, feeling proud of our work and eager to share that fulfillment with everyone.

Our team comprises 400 people in France, New York, and Singapore, all united by the same ambition: to shake up the global video platform ecosystem visibly.

Job Description

As part of its strategic platform evolution, Dailymotion is strengthening its Core Platform team. You will be responsible for building and maintaining the foundational backend infrastructure that powers our entire product ecosystem. Your mission is to create robust, scalable foundations that enable our Product engineering teams to deliver features autonomously and efficiently. 

You'll architect and maintain critical platform components including APIs, authentication systems, monitoring infrastructure, logging frameworks, and establish engineering guidelines and best practices. Working closely with Product teams, DevOps, and QA, you'll ensure our platform scales seamlessly while empowering developers across the organization with the tools and foundations they need to succeed. 

You'll be joining our strategic transformation program to modernize our platform from monolithic to cloud-native microservices architecture, working on high-scale systems serving millions of users worldwide. 

Key Responsibilities 

• Design and build geo-distributed Backend systems using microservices architecture 

• Design and build API-centric systems using REST, GraphQL, and OpenAPI standards 

• Design and build distributed authentication and authorization systems 

• Design and build queueing and event-driven systems 

• Participate in legacy system modernization and incremental migration strategies 

• Collaborate on Partner API design with backward compatibility requirements 

• Proactivity on evolutions and improvements 

Technologies 

• Languages: Python, PHP 

• Messaging: RabbitMQ, Celery, NSQ 

• Databases: Elasticsearch, MySQL, MongoDB 

• APIs: GraphQL, aioHTTP, OpenAPI, FastAPI 

• Authentication: OAuth, JWT, RBAC systems 

• Infrastructure: Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins 

• Security & Config: Vault 

• Observability: Datadog, distributed tracing tools 

Qualifications

Required 

• Strong programming capabilities in Python and PHP 

• Experience with continuous integration, continuous deployment, testing and automation tools (Jenkins etc.) and Docker 

• Strong concept of code quality (complexity, styling, unit testing, functional testing) and knowledge in TDD 

• Strong code review capabilities and ability to identify errors and improvements 

• Microservices architecture knowledge and experience 

• Understanding of API design patterns and RESTful services 

• Experience with authentication/authorization systems (OAuth, JWT preferred) 

Preferred 

• Experience with large-scale system migration or modernization projects 

• Knowledge of API Gat