Lead Live Streaming Solutions Engineer

This is a Full Time Job

#WeAreParamount on a mission to unleash the power of content‘¦ you in?
We’ve got the brands, we’ve got the stars, and we’ve got the power to achieve our mission to entertain the planet – now all we’re missing is‘¦YOU!Becoming a part of Paramount means joining a team that values authenticity and embraces inclusion for all. We are searching for individuals who not only recognize the power of content but also enjoy a touch of fun and uniqueness. Together, we co-create moments that matter – both for our audiences and our employees. You fuel our culture of purpose, passion, and collaboration. We’re in this together.

Do you have a passion for live streaming? Are you a builder that enjoys crafting innovative solutions? Do you love to solve problems and continually learn? Do you have a strong background in video streaming and compression? Does sharing your knowledge and collaborating across multiple teams in a DevOps culture sound exciting to you? If you answered yes, then we may be looking for you! The Video Technology Group is looking for an experienced Live Streaming Solutions Engineer to join our Video Platform team!

The ideal candidate will have experience working with live streaming events and a deep knowledge of crafting 4K HDR live streaming workflows in the cloud. To be successful at this job, you will need to be patient and personable, have strong written communications skills, enjoy teaching others and helping solve issues, and be a teammate.

Your Day-to-Day:
• Ensuring seamless operation of live streaming events running on our platform, including occasional evenings and weekends
• Working with live streaming event teams from internal business units to assist with configuring workflows and capturing new feature requirements
• Investigate and resolve issues in live streaming workflows by collecting relevant logs and metrics, diving into troubleshooting, and suggesting mitigations
• Reproducing bugs and creating detailed issues for developers or vendors to fix
• Defining & developing useful metrics and alerts for monitoring live streaming events & proactively identifying reliability risks
• Onboarding internal business units to the live streaming platform
• Sitting between developers and operations teams to ensure platform reliability, scalability & availability
• Building POCs and defining new product features
• Creating documentation for use cases & KBAs (Knowledge Base Articles)
• Working with the development team to test new product features and provide feedback into product development for our video streaming platform
• Interfacing with other platform teams to build and test video streaming workflows end to end

Basic Qualifications
• 7 years of experience with live streaming video
• Strong video solving skills
• Drive issues to resolution and provide root cause analysis if needed
• Experience with streaming protocols such as HLS, DASH, CMAF, SRT, Zixi, RTP, RTMP
• Experience with modern video & audio codecs such as H264, HEVC, VP9, AV1, AAC
• Knowledge and understanding of DRM, SCTE-104/35, Closed Captioning, Digital Ad Insertion
• Experience with AWS Media Services (MediaLive, MediaConnect, MediaPackage) and / or competing vendors (Zixi, Unified Origin, ATETE, Harmonic, Bitmovin)
• Experience with REST API’s and data-interchange formats such as JSON and XML
• Advanced experience building cloud native video workflows

Additional Qualifications
• Familiarity of Python, Rust or similar high-level programming language
• Live streaming operations experience
• Fluency in modern systems programming languages such as Go and/or Rust
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaS) tools such as Terraform and CloudFormation
• Kubernetes/EKS/ECS or Container Orchestration Experience
• Experience in AWS, GCP, OCI or Linode clouds
• BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience

Paramount , a direct-to-consumer digital subscription video on-demand and live streaming service from Paramount Global, combines live sports, breaking news, and a mountain of entertainment. The premium streaming service features an expansive library of original series, hit shows and popular movies across every genre from world-renowned brands and production studios, including BET, CBS, Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon, Paramount Pictures and the Smithsonian Channel. The service is also the streaming home to unmatched sports programming, including every CBS Sports event, from golf to football to basketball and more, plus exclusive streaming rights for major sports properties, including some of the world’s biggest and most popular soccer leagues. Paramount also enables subscribers to stream local CBS stations live across the U.S. in addition to the ability to stream Paramount Streaming’s other live channels: CBSN for 24/7 news, CBS Sports HQ for sports news and analysis, and ET Live for entertainment coverage.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Hiring Salary Range: $139,200.00 - 200,000.00.

The hiring salary range for this position applies to New York, California, Colorado, Washington state, and most other geographies. Starting pay for the successful applicant depends on a variety of job-related factors, including but not limited to geographic location, market demands, experience, training, and education. The benefits available for this position include medical, dental, vision, 401(k) plan, life insurance coverage, disability benefits, tuition assistance program and PTO or, if applicable, as otherwise dictated by the appropriate Collective Bargaining Agreement. This position is bonus eligible.

What We Offer:
• Attractive compensation and comprehensive benefits packages. Check out our full list of benefits here:
• Generous paid time off.
• An exciting and fulfilling opportunity to be part of one of Paramount’s most dynamic teams.
• Opportunities for both on-site and virtual engagement events.
• Unique opportunities to make meaningful connections and build a vibrant community, both inside and outside the workplace.
• Explore life at Paramount: https://www.paramount.com/careers/life-at-paramount