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FOX Tech

Software Engineer, Video

FOX Tech, Los Angeles, California, United States, 90079


Overview Of The Company

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Fox Corporation

Under the FOX banner, we produce and distribute content through some of the world’s leading and most valued brands, including: FOX News Media, FOX Sports, FOX Entertainment, FOX Television Stations and Tubi Media Group. We empower a diverse range of creators to imagine and develop culturally significant content, while building an organization that thrives on creative ideas, operational expertise and strategic thinking.

Job Description

Fox Platform Group seeks a Software Engineer for the Video Engineering group to build, deploy and support video services that manage video workflows. FOX is responsible for delivering the largest LIVE events on TV - including the Super Bowl, MLB World Series, FIFA World Cup, Election Coverage, WWE Smackdown, NFL Championships, Primetime Emmy Awards and countless more. This role is essential to providing our digital audience a great experience every time they press play and will be key to developing industry leading reliability, quality, and overall system performance. As an engineer, you will be working in an extremely fast paced environment where you’ll be expected to learn the ecosystem quickly and help the team to build automated, resilient video services for video streaming.

About The Role

Work closely with Engineering/Product/Project Management and Backend Technology Services teams to solve challenging technical problems. In this role, you will help develop software, maintain good communication with stakeholders such as project managers and product managers. Additionally, you will help maintain uniformity across CI/CD solutions, testing solutions and solidify the development process.

A Snapshot Of Your Responsibilities

Build and deploy software solutions supporting video workflowsConfer with colleagues across the organization, studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes, investigating problem areas, following the software development lifecycleImprove operations by conducting systems analysis, implementing changes in policies and proceduresAccomplish engineering and organization mission by completing related results as neededParticipate in Tier 3 on-call rotation support for the services you and your team develop and operateWhat You Will Need

Strong development skills in Golang, YAML scripting or equivalent programming languagesExperience working for engineering teams on scalable services developmentStrong understanding of software design/architecture and tradeoffsExperience with AWS Services like EC2, Lambda, S3, API GatewayFamiliarity with containers, micro-services and related architecturesExperience with CI/CD tools like Terraform, Github actionsGood understanding of the Software Development Life CycleExperience with performance, load, stress, and security testing toolsNICE TO HAVE, BUT NOT A DEAL BREAKER

Experience with streaming protocols (HLS/DASH), encoding (H.264), AWS Media Services (MediaLive/MediaStore)Experience with React.js or TypeScriptUnderstanding of DNS, Load Balancing, SSL, TCP/IP, networking, security and large scale event deliveryExperience with digital backend services such as entitlement, metadata, and DAI componentsExperience working with Manifest manipulation, POIS, and state servicesExcellent documentation skills, UML diagrams a plus

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable law.

At FOX, we foster a culture and environment where everyone feels welcome and can thrive. We are deeply committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, including attracting, retaining, and promoting diverse talent across our company. We live in a diverse world, with different ideas and different perspectives that come together to spark new ideas and make great things happen. That means reflecting the diversity of the world around us is critical to our company’s success. We ensure that our viewers, communities and employees feel heard, represented, and celebrated both on screen and off.

Pursuant to state and local pay disclosure requirements, the pay range for this role, with final offer amount dependent on education, skills, experience, and location is: $95,000.00-146,500.00 annually for California. This role is also eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, various benefits, including medical/dental/vision, insurance, a 401(k) plan, paid time off, and other benefits in accordance with applicable plan documents. Benefits for Union represented employees will be in accordance with the applicable collective bargaining agreement.

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