Job Number: R50017786
Brand: Fox Corporation
Job Type: Engineering, Technology
Location Type: Remote
Experience Level: Experienced Hires
Location: Los Angeles, California ; • USA Remote **
Job Posting Date: February 25, 2022
**Remote: Fox Corporation has remote/virtual (or "work-from-home") positions available within the United States to qualified individuals who live in some areas of the United States. Remote opportunities are not available in all areas
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.
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