Streaming Engineer

About TEGNA

TEGNA Inc. (NYSE: TGNA) serves local communities across the U.S. through trustworthy journalism, engaging content, and tools that help people navigate their daily lives. Through customized marketing solutions, we help businesses grow and thrive. With 64 television stations in 51 U.S. markets, TEGNA reaches approximately 100 million people every month across the web, mobile apps, streaming, and linear television. For more information, visit TEGNA.com.

Join TEGNA's dynamic digital team that reaches tens of millions of users monthly across our diverse digital platforms. Our team develops user-centric websites, mobile apps, OTT & CTV apps, and custom back-end editorial tools.

Despite being a large, publicly traded company, our development team operates with the agility and innovation of a startup. We are a group of dedicated professionals who take pride in delivering quality work.

We are seeking a Streaming Engineer to bolster our infrastructure team, which oversees the entire audio and video encoding supply chain, from content acquisition to delivery. This team provides round-the-clock support and monitoring for our video streams and other infrastructure-related tasks.

This is a full-time remote position.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement innovative live streaming workflows.
• Develop support tools, scripts, and dashboards to enhance operational efficiency.
• Troubleshoot encoding and segmentation issues to ensure seamless streaming.
• Maintain and support our live encoders and VOD transcoding farms.
• Document workflows and standard operation procedures for knowledge sharing.
• Provide guidance to external teams on live encoder/packaging workflows.

Skills and Qualifications

• S. in Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or equivalent professional experience.
• 2+ years of progressively complex related experience.
• Experience in a video OTT/broadcast environment.
• Basic understanding of DAI workflows in an OTT environment.
• Ability to work independently to solve problems in both the video and IT domains.
• Proficiency in video codecs and compression (H.264/AVC, H.265/HEVC).
• Familiarity with audio codecs and containers (AAC, PCM, AC-3, EAC-3, MPEG-1 Layer-II).
• Comfortable working with Mac, Linux, specifically on the command line.
• Strong communication skills to effectively collaborate with teams.
• Basic scripting experience (BASH, Python, Ruby).
• Comfortable troubleshooting with Transport Stream and Elementary Stream analyzers.
• Experience with video transport protocols such as RTMP, SRT, Zixi, HLS, MPEG-DASH.
• Experience supporting live-streaming delivery at scale.
• Experience working with AWS Elemental products considered a plus, but not required.

Benefits: 

TEGNA offers comprehensive benefits designed to safeguard the physical, mental and financial health of our employees and their families. TEGNA offers two medical plan options for full and part-time employees through Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas, as well as access to dental and eye care coverage; fertility, surrogacy and adoption assistance; disability and life insurance.

Our 401(k) program offers full, part-time and temporary employees the opportunity to contribute 1% - 80% of their pay on a pre-tax basis to TEGNA’s 401(k). Contributions made up to the first 4% of pay are eligible for a 100% match from the company and are 100% vested from day one.

Regardless of participation in TEGNA medical plans, ALL employees and their eligible family members receive nine free virtual doctor’s appointments with a physician through Teladoc, and 12 free annual therapy sessions with a licensed clinician through Spring Health.

TEGNA offers a generous Paid Time Off (PTO) benefit as well as nine paid holidays per year. 

* Some jobs are covered by a collective bargaining agreement and thus some or all of the benefits described herein may not apply. For example, some newsroom bargaining unit employees receive health and retirement benefits under plans administered by the union.

EEO statement:

TEGNA Inc. is a proud equal opportunity employer. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, hiring and developing individuals from diverse backgrounds and experiences to add to our collaborative culture. We value and consider applications from all qualified candidates without regard to actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender, age, marital status, personal appearance, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, family responsibilities, disability, medical condition, enrollment in college or vocational school, political affiliation, military or veteran status, citizenship status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law. TEGNA will reasonably accommodate qualified individuals with disabilities in accordance with applicable law. If you are in need of an accommodation in order to submit your application, please email askhr@tegna.com 

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