Job description

About us

We are professional, agile and our goal is to Paramount delivers premium content to audiences across platforms worldwide. We connect with billions of people—through our studios, networks, streaming services, live events, merchandise, and more. Our studios create content for all audiences, across every genre and format, while our networks and brands forge deep connections with the world’s most diverse audiences. In streaming, our differentiated strategy is scaling rapidly across free, broad pay, and premium..

Our work environment includes:

• Growth opportunities
• Flexible working hours
• Company perks
• Lively atmosphere
• Safe work environment
• Casual work attire
• Relaxed atmosphere
• Wellness programs
• Regular social events
• Work-from-home days

Paramount+, a direct-to-consumer digital subscription video on-demand and live streaming service from Paramount Global, combines live sports, breaking news, and a mountain of entertainment. The premium streaming service features an expansive library of original series, hit shows and popular movies across every genre from world-renowned brands and production studios, including BET, CBS, Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon, Paramount Pictures and the Smithsonian Channel. The service is also the streaming home to unmatched sports programming, including every CBS Sports event, from golf to football to basketball and more, plus exclusive streaming rights for major sports properties, including some of the world’s biggest and most popular soccer leagues. Paramount+ also enables subscribers to stream local CBS stations live across the U.S. in addition to the ability to stream Paramount Streaming’s other live channels: CBSN for 24/7 news, CBS Sports HQ for sports news and analysis, and ET Live for entertainment coverage.

We are looking for a Lead Video Software Engineer who is passionate about large scale video ecosystems and cares about code quality, uptime, performance, continuous deployment, design principles, and test-driven development. You'll work closely with fellow engineers to enable modern, high-quality media delivery using a combination of in-house and off-the-shelf technologies. You’ll be crucial in the team’s process when translating high-level requirements into maintainable, efficient, and scalable self-healing solutions. This role will have an extra focus on maintaining and extending a large-scale dynamic media packaging service streaming common last-mile protocols written in C and Go. You’ll be designing cutting edge features from the ground up that allow ViacomCBS to stay on top of the latest in streaming technologies in a rapidly changing industry! Does this sound like you?

Key Projects

Maintain and improve the core of our on-the-fly packaging service written in C while implementing high-performance greenfield functionality to support live and VOD workflows
Build out of a scheduling service for both Live and VOD assets to product stitched live streams
Work with engineers across the company to optimize video experience in the context of large-scale production websites and applications

Your Day-to-Day

• Contribute to the core of our in-house dynamic media packaging system for live and VOD workflows
• Work with product and QA teams to develop test plans for existing and new functionality
• Contribute and encourage an engineering culture that values software quality and maintainability
• Collaborate with other engineers and members of the Video Processing team to determine priorities, best practices, and refine functional requirements

Qualifications

What you bring to the team

You have -

• Strong experience designing and implementing maintainable, scalable, and pragmatic software solutions from the ground up
• Fluency in C and Go or similar systems-level programming language with a passion for writing high-performance, efficient code
• Proven experience with streaming protocols like HLS & MPEG-DASH
• Experience with Digital Rights Management Systems (DRM), including Playready, Widevine & FairPlay
• Experience with cloud technologies, preferably AWS and GCP
• Good knowledge of microservices and distributed systems architectures
• Experience with technical writing and design documentation
• Strong communication with proven ability to work well within a team

You might also have -

• Knowledge of FFmpeg/Libav APIs and experience maintaining Libav-based solutions in production
• Knowledge of the color space, bit depth, and HDR systems
• Experience deploying high-volume services using Kubernetes
• Fluency in modern systems programming languages such as Rust
• Patches or code publicly available
• Open Source development experience!

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Hiring Salary Range: $165,000.00 - 190,000.00.

The hiring salary range for this position applies to New York City, California, Colorado, Washington state, and most other geographies. Starting pay for the successful applicant depends on a variety of job-related factors, including but not limited to geographic location, market demands, experience, training, and education. The benefits available for this position include medical, dental, vision, 401(k) plan, life insurance coverage, disability benefits, tuition assistance program and PTO or, if applicable, as otherwise dictated by the appropriate Collective Bargaining Agreement. This position is bonus eligible.

https://www.paramount.com/careers/benefits

Paramount is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) including disability/vet.

At Paramount, the spirit of inclusion feeds into everything that we do, on-screen and off. From the programming and movies we create to employee benefits/programs and social impact outreach initiatives, we believe that opportunity, access, resources and rewards should be available to and for the benefit of all. Paramount is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, creed, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity, gender expression, and Veteran status.

If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran, you may request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access. https://www.paramount.com/careers as a result of your disability. You can request reasonable accommodations by calling 212.846.5500 or by sending an email to viacomaccommodations@viacom.com. Only messages left for this purpose will be returned.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $165,000.00 - $190,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Employee discount
• Flexible schedule
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• Professional development assistance
• Referral program
• Relocation assistance
• Retirement plan
• Tuition reimbursement
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

• Bonus pay

Experience:

• Software Engineer: 4 years (Preferred)
• C: 4 years (Preferred)
• Go: 4 years (Preferred)
• Video Streaming Protocols: 3 years (Preferred)
• Digital Rights Management: 3 years (Preferred)
• Kubernetes or Docker: 3 years (Preferred)
• Microservices: 3 years (Preferred)

Work Location: Remote

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