Sr. Video Player Engineer, Web

OVERVIEW OF THE COMPANY
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
Fox Consumer Products and Engineering (CPE) is looking for a Senior Video Software Engineer to design, build, deploy and support video infrastructure and tools, including live/VOD encode, origin, CDN integrations, QoS/QoE measurement and tools to manage 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 Senior Video Software Engineer, you will be working in an extremely fast-paced environment where you'll be expected to learn the ecosystem quickly and help build automated, highly scalable and resilient delivery infrastructure for video streaming.
A SNAPSHOT OF YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

• Work closely with Engineering/Product/Project Management and Backend Technology Services teams to build highly scalable/reliable video infrastructure, including various configurations, routing policies/tools, and services to manage video workflows
• Develop software solutions based on operations; collaborate and confer with colleagues, studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes, investigating problem areas, following the software development lifecycle
• Develop new features, improve existing features and fix bugs
• Determine operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development, and proposed solutions
• Document and demonstrate solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments and clear code
• Prepare and install solutions by determining and designing system specifications, standards, and programming
• Improve operations by conducting systems analysis and implement changes in policies and procedures
• Accomplish engineering and organization mission by completing related results as needed
• Support and develop 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

• Experience as a software engineer
• Experience with live video streaming (HLS/DASH)
• Experience using AWS or other cloud providers
• Strong understanding of software design/architecture and tradeoffs
• Strong understanding and experience with databases
• Familiarity with containers, micro-services and related architectures
• Good understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle

NICE TO HAVE, BUT NOT A DEAL BREAKER

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• AWS architecture or developer certifications
• Experience with encoding (H.264/H.265), AWS Media Services (MediaLive/MediaPackage)
• Experience with video QoE metrics, ABR algorithms, Video Player frameworks
• Experience with broadcast automation standards (i.e. SCTE-35, SCTE-104, SCTE-224/ENSI, BXF, etc)
• Experience with scripting (Python, Bash)
• Experience with log analysis tools (i.e. Splunk, Sumologic, etc)

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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.
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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: $118,000.00-160,000.00 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.
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