Operations Engineer Internship
BMAT Music Innovators, Spain
Job Description
We’re the Operating System for the Music Industry a platform that pumps up the jam of every play.
We connect all players of the industry to amplify the value of music. Driven by machine learning and copyright expertise, our system pumps neutral data and authoritative knowledge to everyone along the chain. For those who make or use music, we allow them to plug in to our O.S. to ease operations, increase earnings, and get in sync with everyone else.
What you'll be doing
In our Recordings team at BMAT, we are responsible for recording more than 7000 channels worldwide in order to feed our real-time music monitoring platform (Vericast). To do so, we have deployed more than 250 recording servers all over the world to get even the most remote regional channel.
Your responsibilities will be to help us maintain the evolution of the current system that will push the recording team to the next level.
It is a challenging and ambitious project surrounded by a young and enthusiastic team.
The objective of the recordings team is to record audio and video content coming from a lot of different platforms and countries.
Main tasks
- Maintain a network of 200+ servers in 50+ countries around the world.
- Hack servers into Audio / Video / TV / Radio signals recorders.
- Install and maintain servers in data centers.
- Encoding/Transcoding Audio and Video signals.
- Communication with hostings, providers, customers, and other tech and non-tech teams of the company.
Requirements
- You are comfortable working in a Linux environment and scripting languages don’t scare you.
- You have an instinct for listening, asking, understanding, and communicating.
- You get the most out of your time when working in a team.
- Bash knowledge can convert complicated tasks to one-liners.
- You think uncertainty creates opportunity rather than stress.
- You are self-motivated and always willing to learn.
- You tend to find the most efficient way to solve problems.
- Availability to come to the Barcelona office 3 to 5 times a month.
Bonus Track
- Experience Python and some of its frameworks (flask and django would be valuable).
- Experience with Docker or equivalent technology
- Experience with configuration management tools (Puppet)
- Experience with FFmpeg
Benefits
- Apply everything you have already learned into practical live projects
- Get a feel of a real work environment in the music industry
- Build your network and learn from experts
- Improve your CV, gain experience, get a recommendation
- There are real possibilities to get a job after the paid internship
- Unlimited time off
- Company laptop
- Being part of a team of nice and talented people
- Participate in all learning opportunities offered internally
- Mental health support tool
- Barcelona HQ office available to you, kitted out with a rehearsal room https://www.bmat.com/bmat-house/
Who the FAQ are BMAT
BMAT started in 2005 when a group of engineers with a passion for music decided to spin-off from an audio research lab in Barcelona. We’re now over 160 people, spread across Barcelona, Buenos Aires, Lima, Rio de Janeiro, London, Paris, Nairobi, Oslo, Tel-Aviv, Singapore, Tokyo, Manila, Bangkok and Lagos.
We’re a team of pretty decent people who enjoy working with each other. We’re open-minded and well-traveled, coming from all parts of the world. We’ve got rappers, producers, cello players, DJs, and songwriters. The passion for music, the excitement for innovative technology and Barcelona as a backdrop has proven to make a good combination.
Join us from wherever you are on our mission to help make music live forever.
We say there’s a BMAT touch. We believe it has to do with being passionate, obsessive, nice, generous, honest, self-motivated, entrepreneurial, intrepid, crazy, extraordinary, creative, agile, human, friendly, smart, witty, talented, naive, optimistic, surprising, sensual, and nerdy, but not very hipster (unfortunately). Our way of being is always sprinkled with transparency, perseverance, flexibility, open-mindedness and trustworthiness.
Diverse perspectives drive innovation, and innovation is kind of our thing. Our open-minded and flexible culture organically fosters this diversity. We've learnt that we thrive on learning from each other, so we don't just welcome but actively hire a range of open-minded people from all walks of life. Our team is made up of people with different backgrounds, perspectives, orientations, abilities, musical tastes, dress sense and time-zones - but we all have one common goal: Making the music world a better place. With equal opport