Full Stack Engineer

Job Description

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.

SUMMARY

The Video Operations and Streaming team is responsible for supporting the video delivery and architecture of VOD and Live content streamed on over 15 platforms for CBS All Access. Our team is also responsible for the encoding and delivery of premium content to millions of users every day.

ROLE DETAILS
Open to remote engineers!

We are seeking a Full-Stack Software Engineer who will help drive our system's evolution. This person will be an integral part of the central Video Streaming and Operations team, working with other video tech engineers to build and release products for various platforms. We are responsible for supporting the video delivery and architecture of VOD and Live content streamed on over 15 platforms for CBS All Access. Our team is also responsible for the encoding and delivery of premium content to millions of users every day. This person will also be responsible for building out our user interface in a scalable and maintainable fashion.

Your Day-to-Day
• Work with other engineers to maintain and evolve our video encoding platform.
• Modernize, manage and automate our Live and VOD event management system.
• Work with publishing teams to gather requirements and support the scheduling, monitoring and operating of live events.
• Build clean and reusable UI components to be used across the application.
• Write unit and integration tests to improve our code base quality and test coverage.
• Build out microservices for our cloud (AWS/GCP) video processing workflows.

KEY PROJECTS
• Work with building and improving our live event manager platform for scheduling live events and 24/7 streams.
• Maintain and develop our encoding and reporting administration dashboard.
• Create reusable components to be used throughout the application.

QUALIFICATIONS
• BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience.
• 3+ years working as a Software Engineer.
• 2+ years of experience with HTML, CSS and Javascript.
• 2+ years using modern Javascript frameworks such as React or VueJs.
• 1+ years programming with one of the server side languages such as PHP, Python, Go.

Additional qualifications
• Experience with container technology such as Docker.
• Experience working with Cloud/SaaS services such as Amazon AWS, Google Cloud.
• Experience working with video codecs: H264, HEVC, AV1, VP9.
• Familiarity with video protocols such as RTP, RTMP, HLS, HDS, Smooth Streaming.
• Familiarity with modern video codecs like H264, VP8, VP9, AV1.
• Master's Degree in Computer Science or similar, related field.
• ViacomCBS is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) including disability/vet.

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

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-d81719-3-149-234-230-42 in your application.