Live Streaming Engineer

Originally founded as a streaming Soccer service, we have grown and expanded our mission to providing the best live sports streaming experience on the planet.

Today we broadcast most NFL, MLB, NBA and NHL games, all important Soccer leagues, and a wide range of college and other sports. We also broadcast a wide variety of movies and entertainment including the entire FOX and NBC broadcast catalogs. fuboTV can be accessed on many different platforms, including web browsers, Android, iOS, tvOS, fireTV, AndroidTV, Roku and Chromecast.

Job Description

We are looking for a live streaming engineer who will be responsible for architecting, building and maintaining fault tolerant and scalable video delivery systems that can reach millions of users every month. We’re a small, fast-moving and fast-growing company looking to change the sports media consumption forever. The ideal candidate has background in enterprise-level video encoding, particularly HLS and/or MPEG-DASH, and is comfortable working with software engineers to build internal products.

Responsibilities

• Architect and maintain scalable streaming infrastructures
• Manage cloud based and in-house encoding software and appliances responsible for live encoding videos into HLS and MPEG-DASH
• Relationship management with a third party transcoding vendor and a CDN vendor

Required Skills

• Enterprise video encoding expertise using Elemental, Envivio, or similar encoders.
• Video codec experience specifically in H.264, VP9, MPEG-2 and H.265
• Understanding of HLS and HLS based server-side ad stitching products
• Familiarity with different CDN vendors and their systems (e.g. Akamai, Level3, Fastly, etc.)
• Experience with at least one dynamically typed language (Python, Ruby, Node.JS, etc.)
• Understanding of media formats on mobile devices
• Working knowledge of commandline tools for video diagnosis such as ffmpeg, mp4box, x264, mediastreamvalidator, etc.

Benefits:
fuboTV provides a compensation commensurate with experience and market standards as well as a robust benefit package including stock options, health coverage sponsored up to 100% for employees and their family members, unlimited vacation days and regular company-wide activities.