Streaming Engineer

November 12

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TEGNA

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5001 - 10000 employees

Founded 2014

📱 Media

👥 B2C

Description

• TEGNA Inc. is an innovative media company that serves the greater good of our communities. • Join TEGNA's dynamic digital team that reaches tens of millions of users monthly across our diverse digital platforms. • Our team develops user-centric websites, mobile apps, OTT & CTV apps, and custom back-end editorial tools. • Despite being a large, publicly traded company, our development team operates with the agility and innovation of a startup. • We are seeking a Streaming Engineer to bolster our infrastructure team, which oversees the entire audio and video encoding supply chain, from content acquisition to delivery. • This team provides round-the-clock support and monitoring for our video streams and other infrastructure-related tasks.

Requirements

• S. in Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or equivalent professional experience. • 2+ years of progressively complex related experience. • Experience in a video OTT/broadcast environment. • Basic understanding of DAI workflows in an OTT environment. • Ability to work independently to solve problems in both the video and IT domains. • Proficiency in video codecs and compression (H.264/AVC, H.265/HEVC). • Familiarity with audio codecs and containers (AAC, PCM, AC-3, EAC-3, MPEG-1 Layer-II). • Comfortable working with Mac, Linux, specifically on the command line. • Strong communication skills to effectively collaborate with teams. • Basic scripting experience (BASH, Python, Ruby). • Comfortable troubleshooting with Transport Stream and Elementary Stream analyzers. • Experience with video transport protocols such as RTMP, SRT, Zixi, HLS, MPEG-DASH. • Experience supporting live-streaming delivery at scale. • Experience working with AWS Elemental products considered a plus, but not required.

Benefits

• TEGNA offers comprehensive benefits designed to safeguard the physical, mental and financial health of our employees and their families. • TEGNA offers two medical plan options for full and part-time employees through Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas, as well as access to dental and eye care coverage; fertility, surrogacy and adoption assistance; disability and life insurance. • Our 401(k) program offers full, part-time and temporary employees the opportunity to contribute 1% - 80% of their pay on a pre-tax basis to TEGNA’s 401(k). • Contributions made up to the first 4% of pay are eligible for a 100% match from the company and are 100% vested from day one. • Regardless of participation in TEGNA medical plans, ALL employees and their eligible family members receive nine free virtual doctor’s appointments with a physician through Teladoc, and 12 free annual therapy sessions with a licensed clinician through Spring Health. • TEGNA offers a generous Paid Time Off (PTO) benefit as well as nine paid holidays per year.