Director Video Delivery Engineering
Director Video Delivery Engineering
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Job Summary: We are seeking an experienced and strategic Director of Engineering to lead the development and evolution of our video pipelines. This role requires deep expertise in video workflows transcoding and delivery systems with handson experience in Python and Perl. You will lead a team of engineers responsible for building scalable efficient and innovative video infrastructure to support Fandangos expanding content ecosystem.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the engineering team responsible for building and maintaining video ingestion processing transcoding and delivery pipelines.
- Architect and implement scalable faulttolerant and highperformance video workflows using Python and Perl.
- Collaborate with crossfunctional teams including Product Content Operations DevOps and QA to ensure alignment on video strategy and priorities.
- Define engineering best practices code standards and quality benchmarks for videorelated systems.
- Drive longterm architectural decisions to support future growth and flexibility of video systems.
- Mentor and grow a highperforming engineering team setting clear expectations and guiding career development.
- Stay ahead of industry trends and emerging technologies in video streaming encoding formats and content delivery.
- Oversee vendor relationships and integration with thirdparty video processing or CDN services.
Qualifications :
Qualifications:
- 10 years of software engineering experience with 5 years in a leadership role.
- Deep understanding of video technologies including encoding packaging DRM adaptive bitrate streaming (HLS DASH) and delivery systems.
- Advanced proficiency in Python and Perl for scripting and pipeline automation.
- Experience with FFmpeg GStreamer or similar media processing tools.
- Experience with AWS and cloud video workflows (AWS Media Services GCP Media APIs etc..
- Experience with Vidinet and encoding systems such as Ateme or Elemental. Familiarity with CableLabs ADI specifications and file transfer tools such as Aspera.
- Proven track record of building and scaling video infrastructure.
- Strong leadership communication and collaboration skills.
- Experience managing crossfunctional projects and external vendor relationships.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Background in media entertainment or OTT streaming platforms.
- Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools for video performance.
- Experience with Kubernetes Docker and CI/CD workflows.
Fully Remote: This position has been designated as fully remote meaning that the position is expected to contribute from a nonNBCUniversal worksite most commonly an employees residence.
Additional Information :
As part of our selection process external candidates may be required to attend an inperson interview with an NBCUniversal employee at one of our locations prior to a hiring decision. NBCUniversals 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.
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Although youll be hired as an NBCU employee your employment and the responsibilities associated with this job likely will transition to SpinCo in the future. By joining at this pivotal time youll be a part of this exciting company as it takes shape.
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Remote Work :
Yes
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Remote
