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About Comcast VIPER (Video IP Engineering & Research)
VIPER (Video IP Engineering & Research), is a startup division within Comcast’s Technology and Product Division and spun out from IP Video and online projects that originated within Comcast Interactive Media. We are a cloud-based IP video infrastructure that’s been built to deliver a broad mix of live TV streams, on-demand video, recorded video, and an assortment of other digital media to an array of connected devices in the home.
RIO CDVR (Recorder I/O, Cloud Digital Video Recorder), is a department within VIPER based in Englewood, Colorado. We develop, operate, and maintain the cloud software and infrastructure used by millions of users to schedule, record, and play back video content.
About the Role:
As an engineer in Cloud DVR Video Engineering Group, you will help to shape the next generation cloud based, highly scalable DVR service. You will develop the software to handle recordings and playbacks for millions of customers, to support Instant VOD, and develop tools to operate such large-scale system at low cost.
Who will you work with?
Cloud DVR software engineers collaborate with industry experts from many disciplines: software architects, network engineers, big data scientists, player developers, content security specialists, and various streaming video technologists. A Cloud DVR software engineer also engages with quality assurance engineers, technical operators, and product owners daily. We’re a small team, delivering software solutions at the leading edge of distributed systems and streaming video technology.
What are some interesting problems you’ll be working on?
The core product this team is developing and managing is the next generation cloud DVR system (cDVR). We developed this system from the ground up. It is a large-scale system that will support millions of customers to record their favorite TV shows in the cloud, which enables them to watch their recordings from any device, at any time, and anywhere with an Internet connection. You will help to develop new features and improve existing software to scale this system to support real-time recording of 8 terabytes of video per second. You will also help to develop different tools to deploy and manage the system at multiple locations and work with different teams to ensure the system runs smoothly. Your work will make a noticeable impact on the rapidly expanding IP video industry and millions of customers’ experience.
Where can you make an impact?
Your code will process the video content that is distributed to tens of millions of devices, all day, every day. The systems you design and build will enable first-to-market product features. You can help influence leading edge cloud technology and streaming video technology standards with real world lessons learned by being a first implementer. Replace expensive vendor-provided solutions with better, more stable, more scalable, more operable platforms, and see that your individual contributions will have multi-million dollar impacts to the bottom line.
Core Responsibilities:
Here are some of the specific technologies we use in the Cloud DVR Video Engineering Group:
Skills & Experience We’re Looking For:
Additional “Nice to Have” Qualifications:
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:
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