The Senior C++ Playback Engineer will design and develop a native C++ player for streaming video playback on various platforms, optimize performance, and collaborate with cross-functional teams.
The SENIOR C++ PLAYBACK ENGINEER will design and develop a native C++ player using
GStreamer which provides encrypted playback on 1 or more Smart TV, Set Top Box, or
Gaming Console platforms.
Responsibilities:
- Build and maintain C++ based Streaming Video Players to run on Smart TV, Set Top Box, or Gaming Console platforms.
- Build video player plugins using GStreamer
- Research and evaluate potential technical solutions
- Make design decisions on video player architecture
- Enable Microsoft PlayReady, Google Widevine DRM protection for video player plugins
- Optimize video playback performance, time-to-first-frame (TTFF)
- Maintain technical documentation
- Work and collaborate in teams with engineers, testers, product managers, etc.
- Work in an Agile, iterative development process
- Committing to deliver timely results
Qualifications:
- 7 years of experience in C/C++ programming
- Experience in low level native TV platform application development (NDK) such as Roku/FireTV/tvOS/WebTV
- Experience with projects that target high refresh rate performance
- Familiarity with open source multimedia projects like ffmpeg, Gstreamer, and WebRTC
- Experience building a streaming video player (in C++ preferred)
- Strong experience in video streaming protocols such as HLS, Low-Latency HLS, MPEG DASH, CMAF, RTP, RTMP, Timed Metadata (ID3)
- Familiarity with technologies for developing on Smart TVs, Set Top Boxes, and Gaming Consoles such as Samsung Tizen, Vizio, Hisense, XBOX, PlayStation or others
- Knowledge of MultiLingual Text Tracks for Closed Captioning and SubTitle Formats such as WebVTT
- Knowledge of MultiLingual Audio and Audio Description Tracks
- Strong experience with DRM protection schemes such as MPEG Common Encryption, FairPlay, Widevine, PlayReady.
- Basic understanding of VOD and linear video workflows using ingest, transmuxing, encoding, SSAI, packaging, and playout.
- Basic understanding of streaming media in a multi-CDN environment.
- Strong experience with adaptive bit rate (ABR) ladder algorithms.
- REST API usage and development.
- Basic understanding of modern video codecs like HEVC, H.265K, H.264, VP8, VP9, AV1
- Knowledge of Dolby Vision and HDR
- Strong experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies.
- Understand how to write clean and testable code
- Able to work on a large scope project from start to finish
- Be capable of being an owner of a specific component or feature
- Familiar with Jira, Confluence tools and communicate tasking estimation and progress regularly to a project manager, Scrum Master
- Unity is nice to have
Top Skills
Agile
Av1
C++
Cmaf
Dolby Vision
Ffmpeg
Gstreamer
H.264
H.265K
Hevc
Hls
Low-Latency Hls
Mpeg Dash
Rest Api
Rtmp
Rtp
Scrum
Vp8
Vp9
Webrtc
Webvtt
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