Software Video Engineer, hybrid | 781956

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Our client is seeking an experienced Software Video Engineer to fulfill a direct hire need. The role will join the Video Engineering – Live team delivering high-quality live video at scale within the Playback Services team. You will become part of a strong engineering culture, where the engineers work with client-side software developers, broadcast engineers, project managers, and technical architects to build and support live video workflows.

**Location: Hybrid – LA, NY or Stamford, Conn**

Qualifications/Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology or related field
• Minimum 2 years’ experience in the software engineering workspace.  
• Experience with scripting in Bash, Python, Perl, PHP or Java.
• Proficiency with languages such as JavaScript, NodeJS, Go, HTML
• Technical experience with cloud-based technologies, specifically within architecture/infrastructure (AWS)  
• Understanding of containerization as it relates it Cloud (Kubernetes, Docker)
• Key understanding of technology principles and work methods (Agile, Scrum, etc.)

 
Role Details:

• The team builds and manages systems and workflows that deliver all live content, including 24×7 linear streams and major live events.
• Reliability, quality, interoperability, and security of the content is of utmost importance. 
• Standards-based engineering practices focus the team to deliver quality streaming solutions at scale. 
• You’ll be involved from ingest to captions to encoding to packaging to origin delivery.
• You will play a key role in building tools which help operators and engineers to monitor, receive alerts and automate health-checks of video workflows, along with quality and consistency of the streams. 
• In addition, you will be integrating 3rd party monitoring solutions via custom dashboard developed from API’s and/or scripts to define metric visualization and alerts. 
• You will develop solutions, test integrations, document workflows and assist in deployments, working with the operations group to ensure consistent 24×7 monitoring.
• You will work closely with key vendors, developing solutions side by side, and you will embrace diversity as part of an inclusive and flexible workplace.

 
Additional Responsibilities:

• Using in-house and third-party tools, participate in efforts to design, build and support the live and linear pipeline for streaming video, optimizing video encoding, packaging, and delivery
• Serve as a technology expert when working with technology partners, engineers, and vendors, implementing smart technology solutions and tools which help video engineering teams deliver, support and monitor live streams.
• Develop solutions from scratch, from open source or integrate vendor solutions in-house to build out a highly automated monitoring, alerting and observability solution
• Work close with the Site Reliability Engineering team to integrate solutions, define requirements and automate deliverables. 
• Help coordinate and participate in testing new solutions and workflows working side by side with QA team.
• Manage and maintain cloud-based content delivery and services
• Collaborate with other team members to help create a team-centric culture
• Continuously learn, improve and optimize processes and ways of working

Desired Characteristics:

• Knowledge of OTT video delivery pipelines including basic networking concepts, source origination, video ingest & encoding, and packing including encryption and DRM 
• Knowledge of OTT streaming protocols such as CMAF, HLS, DASH
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work independently under minimum supervision 
• Team player with desire to collaborate and share ideas with other team members
• Self-motivation and resourcefulness
• Strong quantitative, analytical, debugging, problem solving, and decision-making skills
• Likes to learn and apply new knowledge for overall benefit of the team
  • What’s in it for you?
    
    • Working for a well-known, globally leading Media Streaming organization 
    • Exposure to high-level business professionals in a variety of departments and geographic locations 
    • Opportunity and flexibility to grow your career in a dynamic company

Reference: 781956
  

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