Dolby Careers Staff Operational Support Engineer

Join the leader in entertainment innovation and help us design the future. At Dolby science meets art and high tech means more than computer code. As a member of the Dolby team youll see and hear the results of your work everywhere from movie theaters to smartphones. We continue to revolutionize how people create deliver and enjoy entertainment worldwide. To do that we need the absolute best talent. Were big enough to give you all the resources you need and small enough so you can make a real difference and earn recognition for your work. We offer a collegial culture challenging projects and excellent compensation and benefitsnot to mention a Flex Work approach that is truly flexible to support where when and how you do your best work.

The Dolby Cloud Solutions organization builds technologies and innovations that easily integrate into service providers infrastructure to make content experiences more effective meaningful and engaging for consumers.

Dolby OptiView is building a dedicated Operational Support (L2) team responsible for the stability
availability and operational excellence of our 24/7 live video streaming ads player and real-time
delivery platforms.

As an Operational Support Engineer (L2) you take end-to-end ownership of customer-impacting
production incidents once they are triaged by Level 1 support. You operate directly on production
systems lead live incident resolution and act as the operational bridge between Support Engineering
DevOps and customers particularly during high-impact live events.

This is a hands-on customer-facing role focused on incident ownership production operations
automation and operational scalability not just reactive troubleshooting.

Key Responsibilities

Incident & Operational Support

Take ownership of escalated customer issues from Level 1 Support and drive them to resolution.
Troubleshoot and resolve complex high-impact production incidents affecting live streams
VOD playback ad insertion DRM and real-time WebRTC services.
Operate directly on production environments including configuration changes CDN
adjustments and corrective actions following established operational procedures including
executing mitigations and emergency changes during live incidents when customer impact
requires immediate action.
Lead or actively contribute to live incident bridges involving customers internal teams and
partners.
Provide clear timely communication during incidents including status updates and customer-
facing explanations.

Infrastructure as Code & Production Operations
Work fluently with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to understand troubleshoot and safely modify
production environments
Leverage tools and frameworks such as:

• Terraform
• Helm
• Kubernetes manifests
• GitOps workflows
• CI/CD and deployment pipelines

Use IaC as the primary mechanism for safe auditable and repeatable operational changes
Collaborate with Engineering and DevOps to improve deployment reliability and operational
safety
Validate and execute infrastructure or configuration changes through codified workflows
AI-Driven Operations & Automation.
Leverage AI tools and automation to enhance operational efficiency and incident response.

Contribute to and use:

• AI-assisted incident triage and classification
• Automated runbook execution
• AI-based pattern detection across incidents
• Intelligent alert correlation and noise reduction

Use AI to:

• Generate or improve incident communications
• Accelerate troubleshooting workflows
• Identify recurring patterns and systemic issues

Drive adoption of automation-first and AI-augmented operational practices
Pre-Event Planning & Operational Readiness
Participate in pre-event readiness planning for critical customer events

Validate system readiness through:

• Runbook checks
• Monitoring coverage validation
• Risk identification and mitigation planning

Define and rehearse incident response strategies for high-risk scenarios
Collaborate with customers and internal teams to ensure smooth event execution

On-Call & 24/7 Operations
Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation including nights weekends and holidays as part of a
global support model
Ensure smooth handovers between shifts and regions
Respond to critical alerts within defined SLAs for stream health player errors and delivery
infrastructure.

Root Cause & Continuous Improvement
Perform or contribute to root cause analysis (RCA) for production incidents
Document findings corrective actions and preventive measures
Identify recurring issues and work with Engineering and Product teams to eliminate them
permanently
Contribute to and improve runbooks operational playbooks and knowledge bases for all
OptiView products (Player ads live and real time streaming)
Collaboration & Engineering Feedback Loop
Work closely with Engineering teams to escalate defects validate fixes and support production
deployments
Provide feedback on system observability tooling gaps and operational risks
Act as the operational voice during post-incident reviews

Required Skills & Experience

Technical Skills
5 years of relevant experience in operational support or similar customerfacing roles
Proven ability to own complex problems endtoend and operate with a high degree of
autonomy
Strong experience supporting production video streaming platforms OTT services live systems
Solid troubleshooting skills across distributed systems (APIs microservices cloud infrastructure)
Familiarity with HLS DASH CMAF WebRTC DRM and CDN architectures
Experience working with monitoring alerting and logs to diagnose live incidents (Grafana
Kibana/ELK Prometheus Loki)
Correlate backend streaming metrics player telemetry and CDN signals to diagnose live
customer issues end-to-end.
Comfort performing controlled changes in production environments
Working knowledge of incident management and on-call operations
Operational Mindset
Proven ability to remain calm structured and decisive during high-pressure incidents
Strong sense of ownership and accountability for customer outcomes
Excellent written and verbal communication skills including customer-facing communication
during incidents

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The Atlanta Area base salary range for this full-time position is $136500-$187400which can vary if outside this locationplus bonus benefits and some roles may also include equity. Our salary ranges are determined by role level and location. Within the range individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors including job-related skills competencies experience market demands internal parity and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range and perks and benefits for your location during the hiring process.

Dolby will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of San Francisco Police Code Article 49 and Administrative Code Article 12

Equal Employment Opportunity:
Dolby is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Our success depends on the combined skills and talents of all our employees. We are committed to making employment decisions without regard to race religious creed color age sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin religion marital status family status medical condition disability military service pregnancy childbirth and related medical conditions or any other classification protected by federal state and local laws and ordinances.