Description
Position Description:
NBA Digital is seeking a experienced video encoding engineer with strong video encoding skills and proven experience working with live digital encoding platforms. You will work with a team of talented video engineers and developers to build and maintain live encoding infrastructure for high profile and consumer facing video for NBA Digital. This is a senior role that requires hands-on operational management and strong peer collaboration to work on this leading edge and innovative platform that delivers all NBA video content. You will collaborate with project managers, broadcast engineers, product managers, and NBA business owners to build and operate a high-performance platform that is watched by NBA digital consumers making it a highly visible product, requiring Real Time incident management, responses and a solid background in video encoding. This role will also serve as a operational Support Engineer for making best-in-class technical decisions and operational recommendations. Candidates must be proficient in current and emerging video technologies, including encoding systems, codecs, ffmpeg, software defined video encoding, leading encoding vendors platforms, live video streaming, delivery protocols and linux operating systems.
Qualifications:
The ideal candidate will:
- Have a solid understanding of video encoding for digital distribution
- Be an individual contributor who produces high-quality work
- Be a problem solver who can support large scale video platforms
- Learns quickly and embraces new challenges
- Be eager to learn new approaches with peers and business owners
- Have the ability to see the "forest" (big picture) and the "trees" (smaller details)
- Be able to support Real Time live encoding technologies and respond to delivery issues
- Work well with others