Streaming Engineer

November 12, 2024

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TEGNA is a media company innovating in the digital age, dedicated to serving the greater good of communities through impactful journalism and innovative marketing solutions. TEGNA operates 64 local news brands in 51 markets, providing trusted and impactful news content that keeps communities informed and safe. The company offers comprehensive marketing solutions, including streaming TV advertising, live sports, digital content amplification, and podcast sponsorships. TEGNA is recognized for exposing corruption, holding power accountable, and telling empowering stories. It is also notable for its award-winning work, including multiple Edward R. Murrow Awards, demonstrating its commitment to trustworthy journalism and community service.

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.