Careers
At Ooyala, we continue to create an exciting, innovative environment by hiring only the best. We empower our employees to grow as business professionals and to reach their goals by engaging in team activities, interesting projects, and challenging activities. If you are a self-motivated, enthusiastic thought leader who is passionate about making a direct impact by working at a startup, please contact us at careers@ooyala.com.
Engineering
Front-End Application Engineers (Mountain View)
Responsibilities
- Design and deliver innovative solutions to provide high quality, bandwidth efficient video delivery
- Expand Ooyala's product offering in the areas of content management, monetization, and syndication
- Create user-interaction models that deliver an engaging video viewing experience
- Expose cutting-edge Machine Learning and Computer Vision algorithms via elegant user interfaces
Requirements
- Passion for building products used by millions worldwide
- BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or equivalent from top tier school
- 2+ years of software development experience
- Excellent programming skills -- experience with ActionScript, Javascript, Java, C++ or Ruby a plus
- Experience with large scale consumer facing products, distributed systems a plus
- Strong analytical and communication skills
Site Reliability Engineer (Mountain View)
Are you used to wearing many hats: coder, sysadmin, architect, optimizer, hacker? Do you write single-page scripts that replace thousand-line programs? Do you hear three sentences about a problem and immediately think of a half dozen likely solutions? If so, we have the perfect role for you.
We're looking for a highly intelligent, highly motivated engineer to join our Infrastructure and Operations team. You'll be working with every other team at Ooyala, taking their projects from alpha to full deployment. You'll experiment with bleeding-edge distributed software, building new services and architectures for others to use, and you'll be able to flex your code and configuration tweaking abilities to make our services fly for millions of customers.
Responsibilities
- Will work with many common and not-so-common open-source technologies
- Will manage high-traffic, high-availability web services
- Will design, implement, and maintain large-scale distributed services
- Keep a cool head under (system) fire
- Handle regular on-call duty
Requirements
- BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related discipline
- 3+ years Linux/Unix system administration experience
- Excellent understanding of web concepts and technologies (HTTP, server/client, proxies, caching, etc)
- Fluent in two or more of Ruby, Perl, Python, PHP, Shell scripting
- Fluent in one or more of C, C++, Java
- A Linux/Unix commandline ninja
- Excellent communication skills
- Familiarity with large-scale distributed computing concepts and software a plus
- SQL familiarity a plus
Jr. System Administrator (Mountain View)
We are looking for the talented engineer who wants to play a key role on Ooyala's Infrastructure Team. Our customers include global media companies, independent video content producers, and news organizations with a variety of needs related to the integration with Ooyala solutions.
Responsibilities
- Help System Administrator Manage colocation machines
- Hardware/Software support and office network maintenance
- Monitoring reliability of production website
- General Tech Support
- Looking/Buying/Setting up hardware
- Maintain Vendor relationships
Requirements
- BA/BS in Computer Science or related preferred
- Scripting skills in two of: Shell (Bash/Ksh,etc), Ruby, Perl
- Coding skills in one of: Java, C/C++
- Familiarity with Linux
- Experience with apache, squid and virtual hosting
- General familiarity with packaging
- Networking experience a plus
Jr. Sales Engineer (Mountain View)
As a Junior Sales Engineer at Ooyala, you should posses a positive attitude as well as excellent technical, organizational, and communication skills. You will be working with our sales team in engaging with prospects to better understand and assess their requirements, prepare and present demonstrations, and address technical questions that may arise throughout the sales process. You should be a confident presenter with excellent communication skills. In addition, you should be comfortable working closely with our product, support, engineering, and sales organizations.
Responsibilities
- Facilitate communications between customers, product management, professional services, and engineering groups to address technical questions or concerns
- Conduct technical presentations and demonstrations
- Provide technical, high-level consultation to the sales teams
- Assist the sales team in the completion of RFI's/RFP's
- Build custom product demonstrations and feel comfortable will all aspects of Ooyala¿s platform and API's
- Contribute to the growth of a constantly evolving start-up environment
- Travel Requirements: up to 30%
Requirements
- 3-5 years of experience in a technology field
- Strong presentation skills including experience presenting technical details to a wide-ranging audience
- Superior writing skills for responding to RFI/RFPs and for business communications with customers
- Strong problem identification and resolution skills
- Demonstrated success meeting and exceeding objectives in a software sales support role
- Understanding of OOP principles and previous experience with the following web technologies a strong plus: JavaScript, Flash, ActionScript, Ruby, Ruby on Rails
- BS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Telecommunications, or related degree from a top tier school is strongly preferred
Sales & Marketing
Inside Sales Representatives (Mountain View)
The Inside Sales Representative is responsible for driving sales of Ooyala's dynamic services over the phone. This person will actively manage sales opportunities, leveraging various sales tools and resources during the selling process. This person will work in coordination with the Director of Inside Sales, business development team, advertising sales, marketing staff and sales management.
Responsibilities
- Meet or exceed assigned quota for region
- Build and maintain a sales pipeline and use sales tracking tools
- Drive a significant number of qualified leads
- Deliver new customer calls and emails on a monthly basis in support of generating quality leads to the field
- Contribute to a strong lead generation-to-close ratio in your assigned region
- Participate in company marketing events
- Keep up with industry trends and best practices
- Work with other members of your customer-facing team, foster a team environment
- Provide consistent, timely and accurate forecasts
Requirements
- BA/BS in relevant field required
- Proven successful track record within a sales environment
- Knowledge and experience in advertising and/or Internet infrastructure
- Comfortable in making new sales calls or e-mails to develop leads
- Able to assist in developing sales campaigns
- Excellent communication, proven presentation/demonstration and customer service skills
- Strong prospecting, qualifying, and managing skills
- Must possess strong prospecting account management, and closing skills
- High energy level and a desire to achieve, willing go the extra effort
Account Coordinator (Mountain View or New York)
The Account Coordinator works closely with Ooyala's customers to deploy and grow video implementations. This person must be able to manage multiple projects at once, serve as an advocate for clients' needs and represent Ooyala with the utmost integrity.
Responsibilities
- Grow revenue from new and existing accounts
- Train new customers and introduce new Backlot (Ooyala's video publishing platform) features to the market
- Work closely with sales, product development, finance, marketing and engineering teams
- Address technical support questions
- Develop marketing and support collateral
- Contribute to Ooyala's success and growth
Requirements
- BA/BS from a top-tier 4-year institution
- Passion for video, media and technology
- Knowledge and experience in advertising and/or Internet infrastructure a plus
- Superior attention to detail
- Excellent communication, proven presentation/demonstration and customer service skills
- Responsible, self-motivated and professional
- High energy level and a desire to achieve, willing go the extra effort
- Global perspective; Fluency in another language is a plus though not a requirement