Sr Live Video Quality Software Engineer

Sr Live Video Quality Software Engineer

On-site in New York (preferred), Los Angeles or San Francisco

Join Paramount, a team of passionate people who recognize the power of content and enjoy a touch of fun and uniqueness. Together, we co-create moments that matter and aim to leave a positive mark on culture.

Division Overview

The Video Technology Group delivers industry-leading streaming solutions, setting company-wide video standards and enabling premium content delivery to millions daily. The team drives innovation in digital video and supports integration of video delivery systems across all Paramount products.

Role Details

This role involves working on high-visibility, mission-critical projects that leverage cutting-edge technologies to deliver exceptional video experiences and maximize user engagement and revenue.

Your Day-to-Day

Quality Assurance workflows across a suite of back-end and front-end frameworks

Automation testing across the whole end-to-end video lifecycle, including acquisition, processing, delivery and playback

Development and maintenance of internal automated QA systems

Define and develop useful metrics and alerts for monitoring live streaming events and proactively identify reliability risks

Mentor and guide engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration and technical excellence

Working with internal services to increase automation of the QA workflow

Reviewing test plans with team members to test across different points in the video pipeline

Analyzing test reports, and thoroughly documenting bugs

Create and maintain detailed, comprehensive, and well-structured test plans and test cases

Monitor and track resolution of defects, coordinating with developers in order to prevent, report, and resolve defects

Provide QA support both pre and post deployment including occasional evenings and weekends

Investigate and resolve issues in live streaming workflows by collecting relevant logs and metrics, diving into troubleshooting, and suggesting mitigations

Sitting between developers and internal customer teams to ensure platform reliability, scalability & availability

Working with the development team to test new product features and provide feedback into product development for our video streaming platform

Interfacing with other platform teams to build and test video streaming workflows end-to-end

Key Projects

Aligning test plans to cover Live end-to-end video lifecycle testing

Support Video infrastructure QA and Monitoring for major league launches like UFC, NFL

Standardizing regression practices across application platforms and improving automation QA coverage

Qualifications

Experience developing pytest automated test framework (or similar) and familiarity with a range of automated test strategies

Experience working with distributed systems and creating QA strategies to enhance fault-tolerant of such architectures

7+ years of experience with live streaming video or distributed software QA

Strong troubleshooting skills

Experience with streaming protocols such as HLS, DASH, CMAF, SRT, Zixi, RTP, RTMP

Experience with modern video & audio codecs such as H264, HEVC, VP9, AV1, AAC

Knowledge and understanding of DRM, SCTE-104/35, Closed Captioning, Digital Ad Insertion

Experience with AWS Media Services (MediaLive, MediaConnect, MediaPackage) and/or competing vendors (Zixi, Unified Origin, ATETE, Harmonic, Bitmovin)

Experience with REST APIs and data-interchange formats such as JSON and XML

The ability to successfully work with internal business units & teams with varying technical backgrounds

Strong written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills

Tooling & Ecosystem: Experience with Docker and, preferably, Kubernetes

Familiarity with working within cloud providers (AWS, GCP, OCI) and infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform

Exposure to building Python REST APIs

We use FastAPI with Celery for distributed task processing

BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience

Familiarity of Rust Live streaming operations experience

What We Offer

Attractive compensation and comprehensive benefits packages

Generous paid time off

An exciting and fulfilling opportunity to be part of one of Paramount's most dynamic teams

Opportunities for both on-site and virtual engagement events

Unique opportunities to make meaningful connections and build a vibrant community, both inside and outside the workplace

Paramount is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) including disability/vet