Lead Quality Engineer

New York, NY

We are looking for a Lead Video Software Engineer who is passionate about large scale video ecosystems and cares about code quality, uptime, performance, continuous deployment, design principles, and test-driven development. You'll work closely with fellow engineers to enable modern, high-quality media delivery using a combination of in-house and off-the-shelf technologies. You are an integral part in the team’s process when translating high-level requirements into maintainable, efficient, and scalable self-healing solutions. This role will have an extra focus on maintaining and extending a large-scale dynamic media packaging service streaming common last-mile protocols written in C and Go. You’ll be crafting groundbreaking features from the ground up that allow ViacomCBS to stay on top of the latest in streaming technologies in a rapidly changing industry. Does this sound like you?

Key Projects:

Maintain and improve the core of our on-the-fly packaging service written in C while implementing high-performance greenfield functionality to support live and VOD workflows
Build out of a scheduling service for both Live and VOD assets to product stitched live streams
Work with engineers across the company to optimize video experience in the context of large-scale production websites and applications

Your Day-to-Day:

Contribute to the core of our in-house dynamic media packaging system for live and VOD workflows
Work with product and QA teams to develop test plans for existing and new functionality
Contribute and encourage an engineering culture that values software quality and maintainability
Collaborate with other engineers and members of the Video Processing team to determine priorities, best practices, and refine functional requirements

Qualifications:

What you bring to the team

You have -

Strong experience designing and implementing maintainable, scalable, and pragmatic software solutions from the ground up
Fluency in C and Go or similar systems-level programming language with a passion for writing high-performance, efficient code
Proven experience with streaming protocols like HLS & MPEG-DASH
Experience with Digital Rights Management Systems (DRM), including Playready, Widevine & FairPlay
Experience with cloud technologies, preferably AWS and GCP
Good knowledge of microservices and distributed systems architectures
Experience with technical writing and design documentation
Strong communication with proven ability to work well within a team

You might also have -

Knowledge of FFmpeg/Libav APIs and experience maintaining Libav-based solutions in production
Knowledge of the color space, bit depth, and HDR systems
Experience deploying high-volume services using Kubernetes
Proficiency in modern systems programming languages such as Rust
Patches or code publicly available
Open Source development experience

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