Video Integration Architect - Streaming Services

An entertainment company in California has a great Remote opportunity awaiting a new Video Integration Architect with their Streaming Services team. In this role, the Video Integration Architect will re responsible for helping to define and build the core systems that power the company's video transcoding, packaging and playout infrastructure for Free, Ad-Supported linear and VOD OTT streaming.

• Effectively speaking to the company's Video, Content, Revenue and Application teams and collaborating with the teams on projects that support the company's video services
• Architecting systems that span multiple disciplines and teams within the engineering organization.
• Building proof of concept and prototype for new technologies and features in OTT streaming
• Using all existing tools and recommending new tools to review system status and preempting problems
• Managing forward-looking projects that can span multiple engineering organizations
• Influencing architectural decisions based on product requirements, high availability, massive scale, industry trends, quality metrics and emerging technologies such as new A/V codecs, stream packaging, and streaming protocols
• Document and present design decisions to peers.
• Developing and maintaining a healthy, working relationship across all the company Engineering and Product teams
• Collaborate with the Video Playout and Transcoding Software Development teams to contribute with production-ready code
• Perform other duties, as needed

• 10 years of commercial experience developing highly reliable software services that handle billions of daily transactions.
• 5 years experience with video operations workflows, including working knowledge of ffmpeg and/or GStreamer
• 5 years of experience with video streaming protocols HLS and MPEG-DASH and server side ad insertion (SSAI)
• 5 years of experience dealing with video players on multiple platforms such as iOS, ExoPlayer, Roku, video.js and hls.js
• 3 years of experience working with DRM standards FairPlay, WideVine and PlayReady
• 3 years experience in Transport Stream, MP4 and CMAF file formats
• Working knowledge of industry standard H.264, HEVC, AAC, AC-3 A/V codecs
• Working knowledge of industry measurement and validation processes for linear OTT and VOD video
• Familiarity with Cloud technologies and platforms such as Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Azure
• Working knowledge of at least one of Loggly, Splunk, CloudWatch, Prometheus or similar
• Strong documentation skills
• Great interpersonal skills
• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)
• Strong attention to detail
• Highly organized

• 3+ years of experience developing services in one of GoLang, NodeJS