Principal Engineer, Network & Delivery

OVERVIEW OF THE COMPANY

Fox Corporation

Under the FOX banner, we produce and distribute content through some of the world’s leading and most valued brands, including: FOX News, FOX Sports, the Fox Network, and the FOX Television Stations. We empower a diverse range of creators to imagine and develop culturally significant content, while building an organization that thrives on creative ideas, operational expertise and strategic thinking.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Fox Consumer Products and Engineering (CPE) seeks a Principal Engineer to design, build, deploy and support video delivery infrastructure, including live/VOD origin, CDN integrations, Mutli-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 a technical leader, 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.
 

You will work closely with Engineering/Product/Project Management and Backend Technology Services teams to solve challenging technical problems. In this role, you will help provide direction to other developers, maintain good communication with stakeholders such as project managers and product managers. Additionally, you will be involved in building 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.
 

A SNAPSHOT OF YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

• Bring a strong perspective that inspires change and motivates engineers to develop simple solutions to sophisticated problems

• Build strategies and lead projects, build alignment 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

• Experience leading engineering teams

• Experience with various CDN vendors (configuration management)

• Experience with performance tuning and troubleshooting a variety of network and delivery issues

• Experience with Varnish, HAProxy, WAF configuration

• Experience with AWS: EC2, ALB/ELB, IAM, S3, SQS, SNS, VPC, API Gateway, CloudFormation, CloudFront, etc

• Experience with automation software (e.g., Puppet, cfengine, Chef)

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

• Strong understanding of software design/architecture and tradeoffs

• Good understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle

• Familiarity with containers, micro-services and related architectures

• Well versed in DNS, Load Balancing, SSL, TCP/IP, networking, security and large scale event delivery

• Excellent scripting skills (e.g., shell scripts, Perl, Ruby, Python)

• Git, SVN, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes (EKS). Agile methodologies

• Excellent documentation skills, UML diagrams a plus

NICE TO HAVE, BUT NOT A DEAL BREAKER

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

• AWS architecture, developer, or devops certifications

• Knowledge of other cloud providers (GC & Azure)

Learn more about Fox Tech at https://tech.fox.com/

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable law.

At FOX, we foster a culture and environment where everyone feels welcome and can thrive. We are deeply committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, including attracting, retaining, and promoting diverse talent across our company. We live in a diverse world, with different ideas and different perspectives that come together to spark new ideas and make great things happen. That means reflecting the diversity of the world around us is critical to our company’s success. We ensure that our viewers, communities and employees feel heard, represented, and celebrated both on screen and off.

Click here to learn more about the diverse communities of people behind our brands.