Principal Media Streaming Engineer
New York City, New York, United States of America
Full Time
3 weeks ago
$163,100 - $218,700 USD
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Key skills
AWSCloudDockerFFmpegGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaKubernetesPythonRubyBashGCPGoogle CloudDatadogREST APICommunication
About this role
Role Overview
- Drive initiatives to improve the reliability, scalability, and performance of VOD processing and the platform experience
- Partner with development teams on feature requests, system optimizations, and architectural improvements
- Lead proof-of-concept projects and technology evaluations to inform strategic decisions
- Design and develop dashboards, reporting tools, and data visualization solutions that provide actionable insights into encoding throughput, error rates, and operational KPIs
- Maintain and enhance existing reporting infrastructure to ensure accuracy and reliability
- Implement monitoring, alerting, and auto-remediation systems for VOD processing infrastructure
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to team members
Requirements
- Minimum of 10 years of progressively complex related experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Electrical Engineering, and/or equivalent work experience
- Experience designing and building VOD processing and encoding workflows
- Experience working with on prem, and cloud based, transcoding and encoding solutions
- Deep knowledge of video codecs and compression (H.264/AVC, H.265/HEVC, AV1)
- Strong to advanced experience with command-line video tools like FFMPEG, MP4Box, and MediaInfo
- Extensive knowledge of ABR/OTT technologies (HLS, DASH, CMAF)
- Advanced scripting experience (Python, BASH, Ruby)
- Experience building automation tools, dashboards, and reporting systems
- Experience with REST API communication, preferably programmatically (through a scripting language library)
- Experience writing technical documentation for consumption by both technical and non-technical people
- Experience with data visualization and metrics platforms (Grafana, Datadog, or similar)
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
Tech Stack
- AWS
- Cloud
- Docker
- FFmpeg
- Google Cloud Platform
- Grafana
- Kubernetes
- Python
- Ruby
Benefits
- A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package
- Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered