Sr Live Video Quality Software Engineer

Paramount+; New York (NY); On-site; USD 125,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

401(k) plan

Tuition assistance

PTO

Bonus eligibility

Job summary

A leading streaming service provider is seeking a Sr Live Video Quality Engineer to join their Video Technology Group in New York. This role involves building and maintaining live streaming encoding platforms, managing video processing workflows, and performing quality assurance across various systems. Ideal candidates will have over seven years of relevant experience, strong troubleshooting skills, and familiarity with streaming protocols. The position offers a salary range of $125,000 to $160,000 annually, along with comprehensive benefits.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience with live streaming video or distributed software QA.
• Experience developing pytest automated test framework or similar.
• Strong troubleshooting skills and experience with streaming protocols.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain live streaming encoding platforms.
• Collaborate with video QA and software engineers.
• Develop and maintain internal automated QA systems.

Skills

pytest automated test framework

distributed systems QA

live streaming video QA

troubleshooting skills

streaming protocols (HLS, DASH)

video & audio codecs (H264, HEVC)

AWS Media Services

REST APIs

Docker

Python REST APIs

Education

BS degree in Computer Science or similar

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Job Posting Title

Sr Live Video Quality Engineer

Department

Video Technology Group

Location

New York (preferred), Los Angeles or San Francisco

About Us

Paramount direct‑to‑consumer is a division of Paramount Skydance Corporation that encompasses both free, paid, and premium streaming services including Paramount+, Pluto TV, CBS Sports Digital and CBS News Digital.

Division Overview

The Video Technology Group delivers industry‑leading streaming solutions, setting company‑wide video standards and enabling premium content delivery to millions daily. The team drives innovation in digital video and supports integration of video delivery systems across all Paramount products.

Role Details

As part of the Live Video Platform team, you will build and maintain live streaming encoding platforms, manage video processing and publishing workflows, and integrate with CMS and publishing pipelines. You will work on high‑visibility, mission‑critical projects that leverage cutting‑edge technologies to deliver exceptional video experiences and maximize user engagement and revenue.

Your Day‑to‑Day

• Quality Assurance workflows across a suite of back‑end and front‑end frameworks
• Collaborate with other video QA and software engineers to build, test, and release video platforms
• Automation testing across the entire end‑to‑end video lifecycle, including acquisition, processing, delivery and playback
• Develop and maintain internal automated QA systems, ensuring seamless integration with continuous integration and deployment strategies
• Define and develop useful metrics and alerts for monitoring live streaming events and proactively identify reliability risks
• Mentor and guide engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration and technical excellence
• Work with internal services to increase automation of the QA workflow
• Review test plans with team members to test across different points in the video pipeline
• Analyze test reports and thoroughly document bugs
• Create and maintain detailed, comprehensive, and well‑structured test plans and test cases
• Monitor and track resolution of defects, coordinating with developers to prevent, report, and resolve defects
• Provide QA support both pre‑ and post‑deployment, including occasional evenings and weekends
• Investigate and resolve issues in live streaming workflows by collecting relevant logs and metrics, diving into troubleshooting, and suggesting mitigations
• Act as a liaison between developers and internal customer teams to ensure platform reliability, scalability, and availability
• Work with the development team to test new product features and provide feedback into product development for our video streaming platform
• Interface with other platform teams to build and test video streaming workflows end‑to‑end

Key Projects

• Align test plans to cover live end‑to‑end video lifecycle testing
• Support video infrastructure QA and monitoring for major league launches such as UFC and NFL
• Standardize regression practices across application platforms and improve automation QA coverage

Qualifications

• Experience developing pytest automated test framework (or similar) and familiarity with a range of automated test strategies
• Experience working with distributed systems and creating QA strategies to enhance fault tolerance of such architectures
• 7+ years of experience with live streaming video or distributed software QA
• Strong troubleshooting skills
• Drive issues to resolution and provide root cause analysis when needed
• Experience with streaming protocols such as HLS, DASH, CMAF, SRT, Zixi, RTP, RTMP
• Experience with modern video & audio codecs such as H264, HEVC, VP9, AV1, AAC
• Knowledge and understanding of DRM, SCTE‑104/35, Closed Captioning, Digital Ad Insertion
• Experience with AWS Media Services (MediaLive, MediaConnect, MediaPackage) and/or competing vendors (Zixi, Unified Origin, ATETE, Harmonic, Bitmovin)
• Experience with REST APIs and data‑interchange formats such as JSON and XML
• The ability to successfully work with internal business units & teams with varying technical backgrounds
• Strong written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills
• Tooling & Ecosystem
  • Experience with Docker and, preferably, Kubernetes
  • Familiarity with working within cloud providers (AWS, GCP, OCI) and infrastructure‑as‑code tools like Terraform
  • Exposure to building Python REST APIs; we use FastAPI with Celery for distributed task processing
• BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience

Additional Skills Hints

• Familiarity with Rust
• Live streaming operations experience

Compensation and Benefits

Hiring salary range: $125,000.00 – $160,000.00. Benefits include medical, dental, vision, 401(k) plan, life insurance, disability benefits, tuition assistance, PTO, and bonus eligibility.

Equal Opportunity Employment

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

Reasonable Accommodations

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