C++ Video Engineer
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As a Video Engineer you will help deliver state-of-the-art video playback experiences that allow users to stay engaged in the interactive video experiences that we deliver via our real-time streaming platforms.
We Are Looking For Someone Who:
- Has knowledge & experience related to video streaming, cloud computing, and computer science
- Understands the impact of delivering high quality, non-buffering playback experiences to users across a wide range of networks and devices
- Has a proven ability to improve on existing practices and thrive in a culture that consistently delivers high quality software in a rapidly changing market
- Thrives in a fast-paced startup environment and is capable of anticipating and meeting business demands
- Is an effective communicator with other engineers as well as colleagues on the business side
- Operates with a sense of urgency and has a demonstrated ability to self-motivate and push projects through from inception to post-production release
- Values accountability and displays a high degree of integrity
Responsibilities:
- Optimize video and audio codec usage, compression and platform support
- Create and optimize support for additional codecs such as VP9, AV1, H265
- Implement systems and feedback loops that allow us to optimize for KPIs related to the video playback experience
- Collaborate with our DevOps team to put in place methods and tools for state-of-the-art content delivery
- Collaborate on building a content encoding pipeline that encodes content using state-of-the-art methods
- Partner with internal teams to troubleshoot streaming challenges across all supported platforms
- Work with DRM vendors and solutions to provide studio-compliant DRM playback across all platforms
- Follow standards bodies around audio and video compression codecs and device playback capabilities (SMTPE, W3C, DASH-IF, AV1, HDR, et al.)
Requirements:
- BS in Computer Science
- 4+ years of working with common encoding software such as ffmpeg, Elemental and similar
- 4+ years of experience coding with C/C++
Bonus Points:
- Hardware accelerated encoding and decoding experience
- Video encoding and decoding on mobile devices (Android & iOS)
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