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Fox Corporation
Under the FOX banner, we produce and distribute content through some of the world's leading and most valued brands, including: FOX News Media, FOX Sports, FOX Entertainment, FOX Television Stations and Tubi Media Group. We empower a diverse range of creators to imagine and develop culturally significant content, while building an organization that thrives on creative ideas, operational expertise and strategic thinking.
JOB DESCRIPTION
At Fox Tech, we stand as a beacon of innovation, crafting world-class, large scale digital products that redefine the entertainment experience. We're on the lookout for visionary individuals to join our pioneering team, tasked with shaping the future of streaming products. Now is your chance to be part of creating and delivering extraordinary digital experiences spanning Sports and Entertainment.
As a key member of our team, you'll drive innovation and significantly contribute to our mission of pioneering the next generation of streaming products. Your opportunity to create unparalleled fan experiences for these iconic sports events is here. Our current advanced digital solutions, accessed by millions across web, mobile, and living room devices, signify just the start of our ambitious journey.
ABOUT THE ROLE
The FOX Video Platform group seeks a Director, Video Engineering to lead teams that design, build, deploy and support video workflows. FOX is responsible for delivering the largest LIVE events on TV - including the Super Bowl, MLB World Series, FIFA World Cup, Election Coverage, WWE Smackdown, NFL Championships, Primetime Emmy Awards and countless more. This role is essential to providing our digital audience a great experience every time they press play and will be key to developing industry leading reliability, quality, and overall system performance. As a leader, you will be working in an extremely fast paced environment where you'll be expected to learn the ecosystem quickly and help lead a team to build automated, resilient video tools for video streaming.
A SNAPSHOT OF YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
Work closely with Engineering/Product/Project Management and Backend Technology Services teams to solve challenging technical problems. In this role, you will help develop software, provide direction to other developers, maintain good communication with stakeholders such as project/product managers and leadership. Additionally, you will help maintain uniformity across CI/CD solutions, testing solutions and solidify the development process.
WHAT YOU WILL NEED
NICE TO HAVE, BUT NOT A DEALBREAKER
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Learn more about Fox Tech at https://tech.fox.com
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We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable law.
At FOX, we foster a culture and environment where everyone feels welcome and can thrive. We are deeply committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, including attracting, retaining, and promoting diverse talent across our company. We live in a diverse world, with different ideas and different perspectives that come together to spark new ideas and make great things happen. That means reflecting the diversity of the world around us is critical to our company's success. We ensure that our viewers, communities and employees feel heard, represented, and celebrated both on screen and off.
Click here to learn more about the diverse communities of people behind our brands.
Pursuant to state and local pay disclosure requirements, the pay range for this role, with final offer amount dependent on education, skills, experience, and location is: $161,500.00-200,000.00 annually for California. This role is also eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, various benefits, including medical/dental/vision, insurance, a 401(k) plan, paid time off, and other benefits in accordance with applicable plan documents. Benefits for Union represented employees will be in accordance with the applicable collective bargaining agreement.
View more detail about FOX Benefits.
Fox Corporation
Under the FOX banner, we produce and distribute content through some of the world's leading and most valued brands, including: FOX News Media, FOX Sports, FOX Entertainment, FOX Television Stations and Tubi Media Group. We empower a diverse range of creators to imagine and develop culturally significant content, while building an organization that thrives on creative ideas, operational expertise and strategic thinking.
JOB DESCRIPTION
At Fox Tech, we stand as a beacon of innovation, crafting world-class, large scale digital products that redefine the entertainment experience. We're on the lookout for visionary individuals to join our pioneering team, tasked with shaping the future of streaming products. Now is your chance to be part of creating and delivering extraordinary digital experiences spanning Sports and Entertainment.
As a key member of our team, you'll drive innovation and significantly contribute to our mission of pioneering the next generation of streaming products. Your opportunity to create unparalleled fan experiences for these iconic sports events is here. Our current advanced digital solutions, accessed by millions across web, mobile, and living room devices, signify just the start of our ambitious journey.
ABOUT THE ROLE
The FOX Video Platform group seeks a Director, Video Engineering to lead teams that design, build, deploy and support video workflows. FOX is responsible for delivering the largest LIVE events on TV - including the Super Bowl, MLB World Series, FIFA World Cup, Election Coverage, WWE Smackdown, NFL Championships, Primetime Emmy Awards and countless more. This role is essential to providing our digital audience a great experience every time they press play and will be key to developing industry leading reliability, quality, and overall system performance. As a leader, you will be working in an extremely fast paced environment where you'll be expected to learn the ecosystem quickly and help lead a team to build automated, resilient video tools for video streaming.
A SNAPSHOT OF YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
Work closely with Engineering/Product/Project Management and Backend Technology Services teams to solve challenging technical problems. In this role, you will help develop software, provide direction to other developers, maintain good communication with stakeholders such as project/product managers and leadership. Additionally, you will help maintain uniformity across CI/CD solutions, testing solutions and solidify the development process.
- Bring a strong perspective that inspires change and motivates engineers to develop simple solutions to sophisticated problems
- Architect, build and deploy software solutions supporting video workflows
- Build strategies and lead projects, build alignment across a set of cross-functional staff
- Work with developers across different development environments to capture requirements and synthesize solutions
- Confer with colleagues across the organization, studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes, investigating problem areas, following the software development lifecycle
- Improve operations by conducting systems analysis, implementing changes in policies and procedures
- Accomplish engineering and organization mission by completing related results as needed
- Support and mentor software engineers by providing coaching and educational opportunities
- Participate in Tier 3 on-call rotation support for the services you and your team develop and operate
WHAT YOU WILL NEED
- Strong development skills in Golang, Python, YAML scripting or equivalent programming languages
- Experience leading engineering teams on scalable services development
- Strong understanding of software design/architecture and tradeoffs
- Experience with AWS Services like EC2, Lambda, S3, API Gateway
- Familiarity with containers, micro-services and related architectures
- Experience with CI/CD tools like Terraform, Github actions
- Good understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle.
- Experience with performance, load, stress, and security testing tools
NICE TO HAVE, BUT NOT A DEALBREAKER
- Excellent documentation skills, UML diagrams a plus
- Experience with streaming protocols (HLS/DASH), encoding (H.264, H.265), AWS Media Services (MediaLive/MediaPackage)
- Experience with React.js
- Experience with various CDN vendors (configuration management)
- Understanding of DNS, Load Balancing, SSL, TCP/IP, networking, security and large scale event delivery
- Experience with Varnish
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Learn more about Fox Tech at https://tech.fox.com
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We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable law.
At FOX, we foster a culture and environment where everyone feels welcome and can thrive. We are deeply committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, including attracting, retaining, and promoting diverse talent across our company. We live in a diverse world, with different ideas and different perspectives that come together to spark new ideas and make great things happen. That means reflecting the diversity of the world around us is critical to our company's success. We ensure that our viewers, communities and employees feel heard, represented, and celebrated both on screen and off.
Click here to learn more about the diverse communities of people behind our brands.
Pursuant to state and local pay disclosure requirements, the pay range for this role, with final offer amount dependent on education, skills, experience, and location is: $161,500.00-200,000.00 annually for California. This role is also eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, various benefits, including medical/dental/vision, insurance, a 401(k) plan, paid time off, and other benefits in accordance with applicable plan documents. Benefits for Union represented employees will be in accordance with the applicable collective bargaining agreement.
View more detail about FOX Benefits.
