Principal Playback QoE Engineer

Description

We are seeking a Senior Principal Playback QoE Engineer to define and build the real-time quality intelligence layer for OVE. This role will connect viewer-side playback telemetry with OVE infrastructure behavior enabling real-time live-event operations customer-facing quality reporting and data-driven optimization of the delivery platform.

Why OCI

• Build core technology for next-generation live streaming infrastructure
• Work on high-scale data systems tied directly to viewer experience
• Shape the QoE foundation for a greenfield media delivery platform
• Solve problems across playback telemetry networking edge delivery and analytics
• Influence how OVE proves quality reliability and customer value during major live events

Responsibilities

• Define OVEs canonical playback QoE metric model
• Design and build real-time QoE telemetry pipelines using Kafka Flink or equivalent streaming systems
• Process large-scale playback events across sessions devices geographies ISPs app versions protocols and delivery paths
• Build real-time aggregations anomaly detection alerting and live-event dashboards
• Correlate playback telemetry with OVE relay control plane routing and fallback behavior
• Partner with player infrastructure observability and product teams to improve end-to-end video quality
• Support customer-facing QoE reporting post-event analysis and operational reviews
• Identify playback regressions by device region ISP app version or delivery path
• Help define QoE-driven feedback loops for routing failover capacity planning and event readiness
• Drive engineering standards for telemetry schemas event quality data correctness and operational reliability

Responsibilities

Qualifications

• 10 years of experience in software engineering data engineering distributed systems media platforms or observability systems
• Strong understanding of video playback QoE metrics and streaming media behavior
• Hands-on experience with Kafka Flink Spark Streaming Beam Pulsar or comparable large-scale streaming data systems
• Experience designing real-time pipelines using event-time processing windowing stateful aggregation stream joins and schema evolution
• Experience operating high-scale telemetry or observability systems with high-cardinality dimensions
• Strong systems debugging skills across client edge backend and data processing layers
• Familiarity with HLS DASH low-latency streaming CDN behavior edge delivery or player telemetry
• Experience supporting live-event streaming large customer launches or high-traffic operational events is a plus
• Experience with QoE analytics anomaly detection SLOs customer dashboards or incident response is a plus
• Strong programming skills in Java Scala Python Go or similar production engineering languages

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with live sports major broadcast events or large-scale linear streaming
• Experience building command-center dashboards for real-time event operations
• Experience with Conviva Mux Data Datadog Prometheus Grafana ClickHouse Druid Pinot OpenSearch or similar analytics and observability systems
• Experience correlating playback telemetry with CDN edge origin or network data
• Experience defining customer-facing quality metrics SLAs SLOs or post-event reporting
• Familiarity with MoQ QUIC WebRTC low-latency HLS or emerging streaming protocols

Qualifications
Disclaimer:

Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements such as immunization/occupational health mandates and/or drug testing requirements.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $99600 to $234600 per annum. May be eligible for bonus equity and compensation deferral.

Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge skills experience market conditions and locations as well as reflect Oracles differing products industries and lines of business.
Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:
1. Medical dental and vision insurance including expert medical opinion
2. Short term disability and long term disability
3. Life insurance and AD&D
4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
8. Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
9. 11 paid holidays
10. Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
11. Paid parental leave
12. Adoption assistance
13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan
14. Financial planning and group legal
15. Voluntary benefits including auto homeowner and pet insurance

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.

Career Level - IC4