About this role
About Exaring AG
Our platform waipu.tv offers IPTV live streaming: Free TV, Pay TV, NewTV, Video-on-Demand, recordings, restart, and timeshift – all in a single app on a wide range of devices, such as smartphones, tablets, and TVs (FireTV, Apple TV, Smart TVs, and our own waipu.tv stick).
At Exaring AG, we operate the entire platform and handle the complete process: from video encoding to delivering streams to over a million customers across Germany.
What you’ll be doing:
As a Software Engineer, you’ll be part of the team building and scaling the core systems behind our CDN and ad-tech infrastructure. You’ll design and implement performant, distributed, and reliable software in Go, shaping how content and ads are delivered to millions of users in real time.
Your Responsibilities:
Design, develop, and maintain high-performance backend services for content delivery and ad insertion
Build resilient, observable systems optimized for low latency and high throughput
Collaborate with SRE and platform teams to deploy, monitor, and scale services in Kubernetes
Contribute to internal frameworks and libraries that power our CDN and real-time decision systems
Develop APIs (REST and gRPC) that integrate with our data, analytics, and streaming pipelines
Participate in system design, code reviews, and continuous improvement of development processes
Your Profile:
Strong experience in backend software development, with a focus on Go (Golang)
Understanding of distributed systems, caching, and high-performance networking (HTTP/2, QUIC, CDN concepts)
Experience designing and maintaining APIs and event-driven systems
Familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker, and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform)
Experience with observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry)
Knowledge of ad-tech, streaming, or large-scale content delivery systems is a plus
Comfortable working in Linux environments and debugging system-level issues
Good proficiency in spoken and written German or English
Availability for once-per-quarter trips to the main office in Munich
What we offer:
The position can be based in Munich or remote within Germany
Work on a product reaching millions of users in real time
A modern, high-performance tech stack (find our tech stack here: Tech-Stack)
An agile, product-focused culture with short feedback loops
A highly scalable infrastructure (multi-terabit CDN scale)
Real ownership, responsibility, and a strong, experienced engineering team
What to look forward to
Remote-first work environment and home office
Flexible working hours
Regular team events such as mountain hikes
Personal learning budget for conferences, workshops, or further education
Comprehensive insurance package
30 vacation days per year
The Hiring Process
We offer a fast and transparent hiring process to make it as convenient as possible for you! You will always have a point of contact to guide you through the process.
Your interview process will look like this:
Talent Screening | 30 minutes with our HR
Technical Interview | 60 minutes
Meet the CTO | 30 minutes with Nils
Meet the Team | 60 minutes with some of your future colleagues.
We look forward to your application and to meeting you soon!
Other facts
About Exaring AG
"Wir entwickeln mit waipu.tv das beste Fernseherlebnis der Welt" - diese Mission treibt das Team der EXARING AG täglich an.
waipu.tv ist die führende OPEN-IPTV Plattform in Deutschland mit rund zwei Millionen Abo-Kunden und erreicht über ein dediziertes Glasfasernetz mehr als 30 Millionen Haushalte in bester Qualität. Mit über 300 Programmen ist waipu.tv zudem Deutschlands größte TV-Plattform für HD-Fernsehen.
waipu.tv ist viel mehr als nur Fernsehen - waipu.tv ist eine moderne Entertainment-Plattform, die neben klassischem Fernsehen viele Komfort-Funktionen, wie Aufnahmen, Pause, Restart und vieles mehr anbietet. Darüber hinaus bieten wir das größte Pay-TV-Paket in Deutschland sowie eine riesige Mediathek mit über 40.000 Filmen und Serien auf Abruf an.
Wir treten an, um das Kabel- und Satellitenfernsehen in Deutschland abzulösen und unseren Kunden mehr Flexibilität, Endgeräte und Mobilität zu bieten.
Was uns als Arbeitgeber ausmacht:
Unsere waipu.tv-Kultur: coole Kolleg:innen, offene Türen und Ohren und viel Spaß an der Arbeit. Ein hoher Freiheitsgrad durch flache Hierarchien, kurze Entscheidungswege und Eigenverantwortung mit flexiblen Arbeitszeiten. Wir sind ein unkonventionelles Unternehmen mit einer Start-Up-Mentalität aber mit viel Professionalität und Leidenschaft.
What you'll do
- Design, develop, and maintain high-performance backend services for content delivery and ad insertion. Collaborate with SRE and platform teams to deploy, monitor, and scale services in Kubernetes.
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