NBCUniversal is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Video Encoding and Delivery team at Fandango at Home. The role aims to improve systems for ingesting, encoding, packaging, and delivering premium video content, ensuring efficient, secure, and reliable video delivery across various devices and platforms.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in software development, with strong expertise in Python and Java.
- Practical experience with video delivery technologies, including ingestion pipelines, encoding, packaging, validation, DRM, and encryption.
- Familiarity with streaming protocols and manifest formats such as DASH, CMAF, and HLS.
- Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure (AWS) and containerization technologies (Kubernetes, Docker).
- Exposure to CI/CD pipelines, Git workflows, and automated testing strategies.
- Proficiency in scripting or additional languages such as C, C++, Bash.
Responsibilities
- Build and enhance our video ingestion, encoding, packaging, and validation* systems to support scalable, secure, and standards-compliant video delivery (e.g., DASH, HLS, CMAF).
- Own features and services that manage the content lifecycle—from ingestion through final packaging and readiness for playback.
- Integrate seamlessly with ad-related workflows, ensuring proper signaling and playback behavior.
- Collaborate with other engineering teams to optimize compatibility and performance across diverse platforms.
- Partner with quality and test engineers to automate validation and ensure accurate, efficient content delivery.
- Contribute to platform reliability by building systems that are observable, maintainable, and scalable in modern cloud environments.
- Support future efforts to build internal tools and services that evaluate and improve encoding quality.
Other
- Strong communicator who can work effectively across technical and operational domains.
- A proactive problem-solver with a keen eye for diagnosing and resolving edge-case playback and packaging issues.
- Passion for learning and staying current with evolving video standards, cloud practices, and secure delivery models.
- Experience working in a distributed team across time zones and disciplines.
- Fully remote
