Senior OTT Live Video Engineer, YouTube

1 Month ago • 5 Years + • Network Engineering • $142,000 PA - $211,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

This Senior OTT Live Video Engineer role at YouTube involves architecting and implementing network infrastructure for their live streaming platform, YouTube TV. Responsibilities include designing resilient transport strategies, integrating global network monitoring, managing vendor relationships, and contributing to the roadmap for media ingest, processing, and delivery. The engineer will partner with content providers and internal teams, migrating on-prem infrastructure to a cloud environment, and building scalable software for media ingestion, processing, monitoring, and distribution. The ideal candidate possesses extensive experience in video streaming architecture and implementation, along with strong collaboration and problem-solving skills.
Must have:
  • 5+ years experience in high bandwidth network architecture for video streaming
  • Experience designing and troubleshooting video streaming systems
  • Experience with cloud migrations and automation
  • Collaboration with cross-functional teams
  • Managing vendor relationships
Good to have:
  • Experience managing infrastructure build-outs
  • Experience in video streaming industry, specializing in video transport
  • Experience designing live media workflows and delivery architecture
Perks:
  • bonus
  • equity
  • benefits

Job Details

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 5 years of experience architecting and implementing networks for high bandwidth applications, specifically video streaming.
  • Experience designing and troubleshooting video streaming systems, specifically acquisition infrastructure and resilient transport strategies across third-party colos and the internet.


Preferred qualifications:

  • Experience managing and implementing infrastructure build-outs and cloud migrations.
  • Experience automating the deployment of scaled network configuration workflows.
  • Experience in the video streaming industry with a specialization in video transport.
  • Experience designing and implementing live media workflows and delivery architecture.
  • Experience working with cross-functional technical teams.
  • Ability to manage deadlines and deliver under time constraints.

About the job

YouTube TV is an over-the-top (OTT) streaming service that brings live TV and video-on-demand over the internet to your phone, tablet, computer, or smart TV. It compliments YouTube's core Ad-supported Video-on-Demand (AVOD) model to add live sports, news, and local and premium content at a price cheaper than traditional cable. YouTube has also launched Primetime Channels, NFL Sunday Ticket, and continues to expand internationally.

The OTT Engineering team's mission is to deliver a future-proof video streaming platform, by building and integrating tools and services to support the most reliable and amp resilient signal acquisition, workflow optimization, and highest quality media delivery.

In this role, you will partner closely with content providers, network engineering and software engineering teams. You will manage vendor engagements and work cross-functionally across YouTube with various technical and business teams. You will be supporting all aspects of OTT focused on content ingestion and processing, with the goal of building the next iteration of YouTube's OTT ingestion infrastructure.

At YouTube, we believe that everyone deserves to have a voice, and that the world is a better place when we listen, share, and build community through our stories. We work together to give everyone the power to share their story, explore what they love, and connect with one another in the process. Working at the intersection of cutting-edge technology and boundless creativity, we move at the speed of culture with a shared goal to show people the world. We explore new ideas, solve real problems, and have fun — and we do it all together.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $142,000-$211,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about .

Responsibilities

  • Provide architectural guidance and integration support of network build-outs for a globally scaled live streaming platform and contribute to network topology design.
  • Integrate real-time global network monitoring solutions and lead migrations from on-prem infrastructure to a virtual private cloud environment.
  • Partner closely with media companies to ingest and improve quality of premium live content and manage multiple vendor relationships and perform build vs buy analysis for platform software and tooling.
  • Contribute to and advocate a roadmap for media ingest, processing, monitoring, and delivery initiatives.
  • Partner with software engineering teams to build, deploy, and maintain scaleable software to ingest, process, monitor and distribute media content and metadata.

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