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Software Engineer - Video Engineering - Live, Peacock
NBCUniversal, LLC, Stamford, Connecticut
Create the extraordinary.
Level: Manager (Supervisor)
Welcome to Peacock, the dynamic new streaming service from NBCUniversal. Here you’ll find more than a job. You’ll find a fast-paced, high-flying team for unique birds that want to be at the epicenter of technology, sports, news, tv, movies and more. Our flock works hard to connect people to what they love, each other and the world around them by creating shared experiences through culture-defining entertainment.
As a company, we embrace the power of difference. Our team is committed to creating an organization that champions diversity and inclusivity for all by curating content and a workforce that represents the world around us. We continue to challenge ourselves and the industry by being customer-centric, data-driven creatures of innovation. At Peacock, we are determined to forge the next frontier of streaming through creativity, teamwork, and talent.
Here you can fly to new heights!
The Role
Peacock is looking for an experienced software engineer to join our 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.
Within Playback Services, the Video Engineering – Live team builds and manages systems and workflows that deliver all live content on Peacock, including 24x7 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. From ingest to captions to encoding to packaging to origin delivery, you will be part of what makes Peacock a great streaming platform.
As a member of the Video Engineering – Live team, 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 24x7 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.
Responsibilities
As a company, we embrace the power of difference. Our team is committed to creating an organization that champions diversity and inclusivity for all by curating content and a workforce that represents the world around us. We continue to challenge ourselves and the industry by being customer-centric, data-driven creatures of innovation. At Peacock, we are determined to forge the next frontier of streaming through creativity, teamwork, and talent.
Here you can fly to new heights!
The Role
Peacock is looking for an experienced software engineer to join our 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.
Within Playback Services, the Video Engineering – Live team builds and manages systems and workflows that deliver all live content on Peacock, including 24x7 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. From ingest to captions to encoding to packaging to origin delivery, you will be part of what makes Peacock a great streaming platform.
As a member of the Video Engineering – Live team, 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 24x7 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.
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 Playback Services team members to help create a team-centric culture
- Continuously learn, improve and optimise processes and ways of working
- 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, Node.js, Go, HTML
- Technical experience with cloud-based technologies, specifically within architecture/infrastructure (AWS)
- Understanding of containerization as it relates it Cloud (Kubernetes, Docker)
- Experience in the digital video workflows or digital video technology development is a plus
- Key understanding of technology principles and work methods (Agile, Scrum, etc.)
- Knowledge of OTT video delivery pipelines including basic networking concepts, source origination, video ingest and encoding, and packaging
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- 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
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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
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NBCUniversal owns and operates over 20 different businesses across 30 countries including a valuable portfolio of news and entertainment television networks, a premier motion picture company, significant television production operations, a leading television stations group, world-renowned theme parks and a premium ad-supported streaming service.
Here you can be your authentic self. As a company uniquely positioned to educate, entertain and empower through our platforms, Comcast NBCUniversal stands for including everyone. We strive to foster a diverse and inclusive culture where our employees feel supported, embraced and heard. We believe that our workforce should represent the communities we live in, so that together, we can continue to create and deliver content that reflects the current and ever-changing face of the world. Click here to learn more about Comcast NBCUniversal’s commitment and how we are making an impact.
NBCUniversal’s policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law. NBCUniversal will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with relevant legal requirements, including the City of Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative For Hiring Ordinance, where applicable.
NBCUniversal is an equal opportunity employer and will provide reasonable accommodations as required by applicable federal, state, and/or local laws.
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- Working for a well-known, globally leading Media Streaming organization
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- Knowledge of OTT video delivery pipelines including basic networking concepts, source origination, video ingest & encoding, and packing including encryption and DRM
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About NBCUniversal, LLC
NBCUniversal owns and operates over 20 different businesses across 30 countries including a valuable portfolio of news and entertainment television networks, a premier motion picture company, significant television production operations, a leading television stations group, world-renowned theme parks and a premium ad-supported streaming service.
Here you can be your authentic self. As a company uniquely positioned to educate, entertain and empower through our platforms, Comcast NBCUniversal stands for including everyone. We strive to foster a diverse and inclusive culture where our employees feel supported, embraced and heard. We believe that our workforce should represent the communities we live in, so that together, we can continue to create and deliver content that reflects the current and ever-changing face of the world. Learn more about Comcast NBCUniversal’s commitment and how we are making an impact.
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