Director, Video Software Engineering

Job Description

Director, Video Software Engineering (Remote)

Paramount+, a direct-to-consumer digital subscription video on-demand and live streaming service from ViacomCBS, combines live sports, breaking news, and a mountain of entertainment. The premium streaming service features an expansive library of original series, hit shows and popular movies across every genre from world-renowned brands and production studios, including BET, CBS, Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon, Paramount Pictures and the Smithsonian Channel. The service is also the streaming home to unmatched sports programming, including every CBS Sports event, from golf to football to basketball and more, plus exclusive streaming rights for major sports properties, including some of the world's biggest and most popular soccer leagues. Paramount+ also enables subscribers to stream local CBS stations live across the US in addition to the ability to stream ViacomCBS Streaming's other live channels: CBSN for 24/7 news, CBS Sports HQ for sports news and analysis, and ET Live for entertainment coverage.
Overview & Responsibilities

The Video Technology Group develops industry-leading online and mobile video delivery systems and IP for Paramount+, CBSSports.com, CBS News, Viacom and more. Our team is responsible for the delivery of premium content to millions of people every day. We set company-wide video standards and help internal business units integrate the video delivery stack into their specific online products. Additionally, the team serves as the company's information resource on current and future trends in digital video. This is a great opportunity for someone who is interested in doing high-visibility, mission-critical work! Does this sound like you?

Role Details:

As an Engineering Director, you'll lead a team of talented engineers supporting systems that enable cloud-based encoding, packaging and delivery of both Live and VOD content. You will lead a team of DevOps engineers that will build and deploy high-volume services using container-orchestrations systems. You will work with backend QA and Solutions Engineers to ensure our backend products are rigorously tested and that customer-facing production instances of our products are trouble free. You'll partner with networking and operations teams on the broadcast side of our business to ensure the smooth digital distribution of Live Broadcast events. You will be hands-on reviewing and producing code, architecture proposals, test plans, and more. As Director, you will mentor and foster the career growth of the engineers on your team while promoting a collaborative, inclusive culture. You'll emphasize the importance of building maintainable solutions by further establishing and defending our standards for code quality. You'll be challenged to continuously optimize our solutions to be reliable, self-service, and self-healing, reducing the need for engineering involvement in day-to-day operations.

Key Projects:
• Oversee the day-to-day operations of a team of Solutions and Quality Assurance engineers that is focused on ensuring integrations of our encoding and packaging products are running smoothly
• Build out a Video DevOps function responsible for scaling and maintaining the health of AWS and GCS clusters being used to host cloud-based initiatives within the team

Your Day-to-Day:
• Lead and mentor a team of talented networking and support engineers as they implement as they scale and maintain our suite of cloud based microservices
• Collaborate with other engineering managers across the entire company to determine priorities, best practices, opportunities for interoperability, and refine functional requirements
• Contribute to the evolution of our existing automation testing platform
• Work with the product team to evaluate new projects, identify network-driven initiatives and maintain the team's roadmap
• Work with Live streaming team to be in sync with plans for live events and to incur that all necessary tools to monitor our live streaming infrastructure are up and running
• Work with QA teams to develop test plans for existing and new functionality
• Contribute and encourage an engineering culture that values software quality and maintainability

What you bring to the team:

Basic Qualifications:
• 7+ years of experience designing and maintaining Network infrastructure in support of Broadcast and Digital Video workflows
• 2+ years of engineering management experience with a proven track record of success
• A passion for people management with the desire to build a strong, cohesive, and inclusive team
• Experience deploying high-volume services using Kubernetes
• Strong working knowledge of signal transmission protocols (Zixi, RIST, SRT, RTP, etc)
• Familiarity with common codecs, containers, and standards for video/audio
• Knowledge of in-band SCTE/ID3 signaling in contribution and digital streaming formats
• Good understanding of the primary streaming formats HLS & DASH
• Experience with cloud technologies, preferably AWS and GCP
• Strong communication with proven ability to work well within a team and across teams

Additional Qualifications:
• Knowledge of FFmpeg/Libav APIs and experience maintaining Libav-based solutions in production
• Experience with server-side insertion of advertising inside HLS and DASH streams
• Working knowledge of modern DRM technologies in a live-streaming environment
• Familiarity with the entire AWS Elemental suite for live video streaming (MediaConnect, MediaLive, MediaPackage, MediaStore)
• Knowledge of the color space and common HDR systems
• Fluency in modern systems programming languages such as Rust
• Patches or code publicly available
• Open Source development experience

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

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-d29135-3-135-183-89-42 in your application.