Live Video Engineer, YouTube OTT
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience working at the national broadcast level, supporting 24/7 live broadcasts, live productions or distribution headends.
- Experience designing broadcast systems, specifically transmission chains geo-redundant across third-party colos, and technical project management.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience coordinating vendors, test and commissioning of systems and launching new signal chains.
- Experience reporting metrics and performance to identify areas of opportunity.
- Experience running a broadcast operation 24/7.
- Experience working in a matrixed environment, influencing cross-functional and technical teams, and communicating technical concepts to business stakeholders.
- Ability to manage several 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 TV is just 6 years old but already has billions in annual revenue and millions of subscribers. It's a huge bet for YouTube overall. YouTube has also launched Primetime Channels, NFL Sunday Ticket, and continues to expand internationally. There are many projects planned to expand the product offerings.
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 resilient signal acquisition, workflow optimization, and highest quality media delivery.
In this role, you will manage vendor engagements, partner with content providers, 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 OTT's ingestion infrastructure.
You will use your experience in video streaming, broadcast engineering, technical operations, or technical product management, system design/architecture, integration and broadcast or streaming infrastructure build outs, working with vendors in the broadcast and streaming industry and work closely with software engineering and operations.
Responsibilities
- Provide architectural guidance and integration support of network and software build outs for a globally scaled live streaming platform.
- Partner with Software Engineering teams to build and deploy scalable software to ingest, process, monitor and distribute media content and metadata.
- Develop new metrics and optimize existing metrics to benchmark tooling for 24x7 operations teams.
- Develop and advocate operational processes, new metrics, and optimize existing metrics to benchmark stream quality and reliability.
- Partner closely with content companies, third-party aggregators and vendors to ingest premium live content to YouTube and manage multiple vendor relationships and perform build vs buy analysis.
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