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The Technology + Product organization works at the intersection of media and technology and our innovative teams are continually developing and delivering products and next-generation technologies that transform the customer experience.
About the Team / Role:
The Comcast VIPER Linear Data Plane Development team is a small, high-impact team innovating in IP video packaging for Comcast and its syndication partners. We are a team that thrives on big challenges, superior results, high-quality products, well-documented software, and the agility to move quickly.
On the Linear Data Plane Dev team, the Video Streaming Backend Engineer is responsible for developing, testing, and maintaining the software that prepares live video content for playback on a wide variety of devices ranging from PCs to smartphones and set-top boxes.
Which technical problems does the Linear Data Plane Dev team solve?
The Linear Data Plane Dev team builds and maintains the software that prepares “raw” encoded audio/video for playback and recording. Collectively, our software components segment, package, and encrypt video and audio using multiple containers and codecs; and generate adaptive streaming manifests in multiple formats.
This role focuses on live TV, where our current software stack prepares tens of thousands of live TV channels for consumption by tens of millions of subscribers across multiple continents. We solve problems of fault-tolerance and resiliency at scale while manipulating complex binary protocols in real time.
Our upcoming challenges include expanding to new partners on new continents and integrating next-generation audio/video formats and protocols to stay at the cutting edge of the live TV streaming industry.
With whom does the Video Streaming Backend Engineer work?
On a day-to-day basis, this engineer will collaborate closely with five other live TV engineers. This engineer will also collaborate with other engineers in the broader Linear organization, which includes other development teams, Site Reliability Engineers, on-call operations, and testing/automation engineers.
The team’s engineers also collaborate with industry experts from many other disciplines: software architects, network engineers, data scientists, video player developers, content security specialists, and more.
Here are some specific technologies we use in our development:
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About Our Perks & Benefits:
We are determined to create an environment where our employees feel valued, understand our business goals, and are motivated.
Here's a look at just some of the perks and benefits we make available to our US-based employees:
Learn more at https://jobs.comcast.com/benefits
Reasonable Accommodation
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request an accommodation.
Disclaimer:
This information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications.
Comcast is an EOE/Veterans/Disabled/LGBT employer.
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