Golang Job: Principal Broadcast Engineer

About us-

We are technologists at heart, who love what we do.
At Firstlight we believe in transparency, fairness, and collaboration while we passionately work on some of the toughest use cases in OTT video; and enthusiastic about massive scale and agility. If you get excited about building the future of OTT video, and aspire to be part of a high-performing, learning-oriented, and caring culture-you have landed on the right company.

**Firstlight Media staff reports into offices in a hybrid capacity (i.e partially at home, and partially at the office based on role/team needs) leveraging safety protocols aligned with local public health guidelines as they relate to COVID-19

About the role-

Primarily Focused on:

• Design and implement video coding framework, optimize on mobile and server platform
• Design and implement algorithm/optimization to achieve better QoE/QoS
• Design video analysis and processing architecture
• Implement and optimize video analysis and processing algorithms
• Analyze performance and tune algorithms for streaming media playback
• Work with API and Client engineers to implement different types of video workouts

About You-

Experience & Technical Requirements:

• Experience with multi-bitrate Streaming (Smooth, HLS, HDS, DASH).
• Expert with transport layer protocols (RTMP, RTSP, HTTP, TCP, UDP, multicast, IPV6 SR)
• Greta knowledge of media codecs, formats, transports and container protocols, such as MPEG-2, H.264/AVC, HEVC, AAC, AC3, MP4, TS….,
• Knowledge on AAC / Dolby Audio Encoding.
• Deep understanding of encoding software and OpenSource Multi Media Framework like FFMPEG/Gstreamer. Should have worked on customizing FFMPEG libraries.
• Should have good C/C++ , Python or GoLang hands-on skill
• Understanding of mobile Media Player based video playback in mobile devices
• Familiarity with CDN architectures (caches, origin servers, proxies…) is a plus
• Knowledge of common network architectures (routers/switches/proxies…) and protocols (HTTP…)
• Experience with live channel acquisition infrastructure.

Highly Favorable Skills:

• Excellent interpersonal, communication, leadership, motivational and team building skills.
• A creative thinker and experienced problem solver.
• Excellent leadership quality.
• Proactive and energetic personality with the ability to effectively communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  
• You continually desire to stay curious, speak up, focus on impact, and be supportive. These four specific core principles are critical to your success here at Firstlight, and we understand that when you succeed-Firstlight succeeds.

Nice to Have:

• Worked on OTT streaming application(s).

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT AND CONSENT

I understand that this application is not an offer of employment and that by accepting my application, (the “Company”) does not guarantee that I will be offered a job. I also understand that if I am offered a job, the Company has the right to make changes to the terms and conditions of my employment, with or without notice, as the Company deems necessary and appropriate. I understand that any future employment is not for a guaranteed period of time and that continued employment is based on the consent of the Company and me and that both the Company and I have the freedom to terminate the employment relationship in accordance with the terms set forth in any offer of employment and applicable law.

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