About the Role
The role involves building and maintaining a scalable video platform, optimizing streaming quality, and integrating with content systems while ensuring a seamless user experience.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement core components of a video delivery system
- Improve video playback reliability across devices
- Optimize streaming performance under variable network conditions
- Collaborate with product teams to integrate video features
- Monitor system health and respond to incidents
- Scale infrastructure to support growing viewership
- Ensure compatibility with web and mobile platforms
- Maintain code quality through testing and reviews
- Troubleshoot complex technical issues in production
- Work with analytics to track user engagement metrics
- Support content operations with video processing tools
- Develop APIs for internal and external video access
- Enhance security measures for content protection
- Participate in architecture planning and technical decisions
- Document systems and processes for team use
- Evaluate new technologies for potential adoption
- Contribute to disaster recovery and redundancy planning
- Improve developer tooling for faster iteration
- Assist in onboarding new engineering team members
- Ensure compliance with accessibility standards
- Coordinate with QA to validate feature correctness
- Refactor legacy components for better maintainability
- Support live streaming events with stable infrastructure
- Integrate third-party services for ad delivery and measurement
- Drive improvements in monitoring and alerting systems
Nice to Have
- Experience with HLS or DASH streaming protocols
- Hands-on work with video player frameworks
- Knowledge of broadcast engineering concepts
- Familiarity with ad insertion in video streams
- Experience with large-scale data processing
- Background in frontend development for media
- Exposure to machine learning in media contexts
- Contributions to open-source media projects
- Understanding of captioning and subtitle systems
- Work history in publishing or news organizations
Compensation
Competitive salary and benefits package
Work Arrangement
Hybrid
Team
Engineering team focused on media systems
About the Team
This group builds and maintains the core systems that deliver video content to audiences. Engineers work closely with editorial and product staff to ensure timely and reliable publishing.
Technology Stack
The platform uses cloud services, containerized microservices, and modern JavaScript frameworks. Video processing leverages open standards and custom tooling for encoding, delivery, and playback.
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