Live Stream Reliability Engineer - AppleTV

Apple • Culver City, CA

22d

About The Position

The ASE Live Stream Engineering team is looking for a Live Stream Broadcast
Systems Engineer. Our team powers live streaming experiences in the AppleTV app
on Apple platforms and 3rd Party devices. You will contribute to the design and
implementation of features, tools, and processes to ensure operational and
engineering excellence in delivering live streaming events on the platform.
Being a domain expert for live content acquisition, encoding, and delivery, you
will drive investigations into any technical issues with the acquisition,
ingest, encoding, and delivery. If this sounds like you, please apply now! We
deliver highly available and performant solutions that power our outstanding
live streaming experiences across the Apple TV App ecosystem.

The ASE Live Stream Engineering team is looking for a Live Reliability Engineer
to join our Services team. Our services power experiences in the Apple TV app on
Apple platforms and 3rd Party TVs. You will contribute to architectural
discussions, create performant solutions, and participate in team development
and knowledge growth. You will be a subject matter expert for live content
acquisition, broadcast production and delivery. You will collect high-level
project requirements, take ownership to lead cross-functional teams, and deliver
first-class software.

Requirements

• 5+ years experience in live broadcast engineering support and on-air production systems
• Experience with live encoding, video transport and/or cloud-based infrastructure
• Strong understanding of video production and remote production engineering
• Strong understanding of broadcast transport technologies
• Strong understanding of live HLS encoding technologies
• Ability to distill complex engineering solutions to production, business and product teams
• This role will require after-hours and weekend support

Nice To Haves

• Familiar with SCTE-35/104 and SCTE-224/ESNI
• AWS training and certification preferred
• Command line operations and/or experience using scripting languages (bash, python, other) to solve operational and technical challenges in production workflows
• BS/BA in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the design and implementation of features, tools, and processes to ensure operational and engineering excellence in delivering live streaming events on the platform.
• Drive investigations into any technical issues with the acquisition, ingest, encoding, and delivery.
• Contribute to architectural discussions, create performant solutions, and participate in team development and knowledge growth.
• Collect high-level project requirements, take ownership to lead cross-functional teams, and deliver first-class software.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees