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The Senior Engineer at EchoStar will be responsible for implementing and deploying systems for live and VOD streaming delivery, improving performance and resilience through design and analysis. They will collaborate with multiple teams to optimize services and participate in on-call support for production events.
Company Summary
EchoStar is reimagining the future of connectivity. Our business reach spans satellite television service, live-streaming and on-demand programming, smart home installation services, mobile plans and products.
Today, our brands include Boost Mobile, DISH TV, Gen Mobile, Hughes and Sling TV.
Department Summary
Our Technology teams challenge the status quo and reimagine capabilities across industries. Whether through research and development, technology innovation or solution engineering, our people play vital roles in connecting consumers with the products and platforms of tomorrow.
Job Duties and Responsibilities
- Implement, Deploy, functional, performance and resilience based tasks for a broad range of Live and VOD streaming delivery experience.
- Design tools and systems to facilitate adaptive streaming designs and improve the playback experience.
- Drive continual improvement in resilience, observability, monitoring, instrumentation, and automation with the primary goal of maintaining highly scalable and reliable services worldwide.
- Coordination, collaboration, and partnership across multiple stakeholders for the smooth execution of live-streaming events.
- Aggregate, analyze and correlate large amounts of server and application performance data. Use the innovative Data platform as a highly flexible, specialized, and efficient toolset for service delivery optimization and system reliability improvements.
- Participate in an on-call rotation to provide support for production events.
- Work cross-functionally with CDN, Encoding Technologies, Player, Consumer Insights, and UI Engineering.
Skills, Experience and Requirements
- 4+ years experience in systems engineering experience; demonstrable technical experience in systems design, and iterative design and deployment
- Knowledge of operational experience running large scale, high performance systems & internet services with focus on live-streaming and video-on-demand (VOD) delivery.
- Experience with video transport protocols such as RTP, RTMP, SRT, UDP, Zixi, RIST, HLS, MPEG-DASH.
- Knowledge of and proven experience with HTTP cache/proxy technologies. Experience supporting live-streaming delivery at scale.
- Expert-level knowledge of Unix or Linux system engineering fundamentals (networking, storage, operating systems) at scale.
- Proficient understanding of networking principles, transport, and application protocols, especially TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, and HTTP/S.
- Proficient in a programming language such as Python or Go.
- Ability to work in a highly collaborative environment and to communicate effectively with internal and external partners.
- Preferred - B.S. in Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering (or equivalent professional experience).
Benefits
- Employee Stock Purchase
- Term Insurance
- Accident Insurance
- Health Insurance
- Training Reimbursement
- Gratuity
- Mobile and Internet Reimbursement
- Team Outings
Top Skills
Go
Python
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