Principal Broadcast Engineer, Amazon Live

Amazon • New York, NY

5h • Onsite

About The Position

The Principal Broadcast Engineer will spearhead the studio engineering efforts
of our burgeoning Live Production Technical Operations team. This role will
collaborate closely with our Operations & Strategy teams to conceptualize,
implement, and maintain cutting-edge, complex physical and cloud-based
production systems in our Herald Square studio. The Principal Broadcast Engineer
will engage with both external and internal stakeholders to assess, recommend
and implement technologies/systems that optimize our studio/remote productions.
This role will be responsible for IP frameworks, signal flow / workflow
documentation, integration of studio and cloud networks, and all other network
architecture required to support global systems. This role will oversee all
on-site engineering requirements for the Amazon Live Production team in New
York.

Amazon Shoppable Videos (ASV) is a growing business within the Amazon
Advertising, IMDb and Grand Challenge business unit. ASV is delivering the video
shopping experience to Amazon consumers, with a purpose to enable customers to
find inspiration, information, entertainment, and community through videos at
any point in their shopping journey. The ASV team designs, builds and operates
both owned and operated destination experiences (amazon.com/live, Amazon Live on
Prime Video), as well as federated experiences across the Amazon.com website. As
the Principal Engineer, you will wield significant influence in shaping the
functionality and scale of our live broadcasts and post-production environments.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent
• Experience working at a TV Network, broadcaster, or an online streaming platform, specializing in digital video delivery or streaming media technologies
• Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, including executive level stakeholders or clients
• 10+ years of broadcast and network engineering experience, including studio engineering, physical production equipment (switchers, routers, audio boards), plus IP and streaming protocols (SRT, RTMP, HLS)

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge of distributed systems design and implementation or equivalent
• Knowledge of large scale automation and workflow management or equivalent
• Knowledge of presentations and whiteboarding skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with internal and external executives, IT management, and developers
• Experience architecting, migrating, transforming or modernizing customer requirements to the cloud
• Knowledge and experience in core routing and switching design, configuration, and troubleshooting; understanding of video stream metadata, including triggers, timecode user bits, closed captioning, etc.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Technical Operations team in designing, deploying, and maintaining physical studio and cloud-based production systems to create and scale "best-in-class" broadcast experiences.
• Responsible for cross-team information sharing and technical training for all new operating systems and technical solutions.
• Responsible for technical broadcast planning including the following: Configuring and maintaining SDI video sources and distribution infrastructure and other production systems and equipment, network planning (acquisition, capacity, routing), encoder validation (transport stream validation, CBR, etc), lead test broadcasts, design contingency/redundancy planning for all top-tier streams.
• Collaborating with & providing consultation to Amazon Live Product Team and Amazon Live Production (studio ops, post-production, creative services, producers, etc) on new workflows and features to integrate new production systems
• Write clear and concise business narratives (e.g., proposed strategies, standard operating procedures and best practices documents) and present them to leadership and cross-functional teams in order to elevate production quality and reduce time-to-response on significant on-air issues.
• Provide technical summary and review of major events as well as technical broadcast/streaming concerns and issues, ensuring issues are added to roadmap and appropriately prioritized with future solves for each issue.
• Take the lead in Security Reviews and Product Roadmap Reviews for new software/hardware solutions in collaboration with cross-functional teams at Amazon Live.
• Have an entrepreneurial spirit, show excellent judgment and communication skills, be passionate about high standards (is never satisfied with the status quo), deliver innovative solutions while building a team capable of devising/implementing superior workflow systems.

Benefits

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal