Job Description

Fox Consumer Products and Engineering (CPE) seeks a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to design, build, deploy and support video delivery infrastructure, including live/VOD origin, CDN integrations, Multi-CDN routing/decisioning systems, and QoS/QoE measurement. FOX is responsible for delivering the largest LIVE events on TV - including the 2020 Super Bowl, MLB World Series, FIFA World Cup, Election Coverage, WWE Smackdown, NFL Divisional Championships, 2019 Primetime Emmy Awards, and countless more. This role is essential to providing our digital audience a great experience every time they press play and will be key to developing industry-leading reliability, quality, and overall system performance. As an engineer, you will be working in an extremely fast-paced environment where you’ll be expected to learn the ecosystem quickly and help lead a team to build automated, highly scalable, and resilient delivery infrastructure for video streaming. 

A SNAPSHOT OF YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

Work closely with Engineering/Product/Project Management and Backend

Technology Services teams to solve challenging technical problems

Work with other developers, maintain good communication with stakeholders such as project managers and product managers

Build highly scalable/reliable video infrastructure in AWS Cloud and CDN delivery services - including various configurations, routing policies/tools, and services to load-balance video traffic based on QoS/QoE data

Build video workflows across a set of cross-functional staff and vendor teams

Build, configure, manage, test, & monitor Multi-CDN services capable of supporting millions of concurrent viewers

Implement, test, analyze, and iterate policies for CDN and workflow load balancing - optimizing for end-user quality and balancing for business constraints/costs

Partner with various internal teams + external companies during marquee events to execute overall Multi-CDN delivery strategy

Develop, configure, test and deploy cloud-based video infrastructure (encode, packaging, origin, APIs, monitoring, etc)

Design and configure robust video services with demanding reliability, resiliency, and scale requirements

Monitor and implement performance tests for potential bottlenecks

Implement security, backup, and redundancy strategies

Provide technical specifications and documentation

WHAT YOU WILL NEED

Excellent development skills in Golang, Python, YAML scripting, or equivalent programming languages

Good understanding of software design/architecture and tradeoffs

Experience with AWS services like EC2, Lambda, S3, API Gateway

Familiarity with containers, micro-services, and related architectures

Experience with CI/CD tools like Terraform, Github actions.

Good understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle

Experience with performance, load, stress, and security testing tools

Experience with streaming protocols (HLS/DASH), encoding (H.264), AWS Media Services (MediaLive/MediaStore)

Experience with React.js

Experience with various CDN vendors (configuration management)

Experience with Varnish

NICE TO HAVE, BUT NOT A DEAL BREAKER

Excellent documentation skills, UML diagrams