Senior Live Streaming Tech Lead for High-Impact Events

Paramount Group

New York (NY)

Hybrid

USD 124,000 - 186,000

Full time

11 days ago

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Generous PTO

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On-site & virtual events

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Job summary

Paramount is seeking a Lead Live Event Technology Engineer in New York to own the technical escalation function for Paramount+'s global Live Event Operations. You will be the senior authority for Tier-1 live events, guiding engineers, vendors, and partners through rapid mitigations and post-event RCA.

You will lead end-to-end investigations across acquisition, encoding, packaging, delivery, playback, and platform integrations, while shaping architecture, reliability standards, and proactive

Qualifications

8+ years of experience in live streaming, OTT platforms, broadcast tech, or video delivery systems.
Demonstrated experience as senior technical escalation resource during Tier-1 events.
Expert-level troubleshooting across end-to-end streaming architectures.

Responsibilities

Serve as the senior escalation authority for Tier-1 live events and direct incident mitigation.
Lead technical bridge calls during incidents, coordinate engineers and partners, and communicate recovery status to leadership.
Mentor Live Event Operators and develop their technical judgment over time.

Skills

Live streaming expertise

Incident management

Executive communication

AWS Media Services

CDN technologies

Streaming observability

Mentoring engineers

Root cause analysis

Tools

AWS Media Services

CDN technologies

SRT/Zixi/RIST

Job description

You will lead end-to-end investigations across acquisition, encoding, packaging, delivery, playback, and platform integrations, while shaping architecture, reliability standards, and proactive

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