Qube Cinema

We serve the movie industry at Qube. Once a movie is made and mastered it’s a 300GB stack of encrypted files, and the product that I work on sends that movie to thousands of theatres all over the world. Over physical hard drive copies, satellites and broadband downloads (ask me what our bandwidth bill is when you interview). Multiply that for many movies each week and trailers and ads as well. Then we use asymmetric key infra like HSMs to securely receive and re-encrypt the movie’s keys targeted at each specific device that’s playing the movie. All done so not even we ourselves can compromise or decrypt the movies we’re sending. We also design and make the servers that play the movies themselves; along with more public facing systems like high volume ticket booking, box office systems and movie databases. Our tech stack is Go and React, with a little bit of Java, Ruby/Rails and Node. Databases are Postgres and Redis, with lots of AWS services like SQS+SNS, S3 etc. I posted a couple months ago and wanted to apologise to everyone who applied from outside India - we’re not equipped legally to hire globally just yet. Simple no-bullshit work-from-home culture with good work life balance - we’ll set OKRs periodically and you’ll be left in peace on work with weekly checkins, with the option to ask for help at any time. We do have an on-call rotation, since thousands of theatres stop working if we go down, but we jealously guard our time to make sure we only stay up late or work weekends in real emergencies. Many of us have kids and families, and we respect each other’s time and boundaries. We also have an almost even gender ratio and don’t discriminate on any basis, although written and spoken English is necessary to work effectively. Get in touch at sudhir.j@qubecinema.com