Streaming Engineer

EverPass Media is redefining the role of TVs in businesses by blending exclusive top-tier sports and entertainment with unmatched marketing innovation. With a focus on premium content like NFL Sunday Ticket, smart promotions, and seamless partnerships, we offer a cloud-based platform that combines ease of use with advanced functionality and reliability. We're empowering business owners to control their content like never before, ensuring their screens are more than just TVs—they're key to engaging, entertaining, and understanding their customers to help drive business results. We are poised to leverage our strong leadership, innovative technology, and strategic partnerships to become the go-to destination for on-premise entertainment and marketing

About the Role

EverPass Streaming Engineers are expected to have a working knowledge of all areas of our product, from the point of view of our customers and staff. This enhances their ability to add value by proposing the best solutions to their needs.

The Tech Stack

Our applications use React, Apollo Client on the front end and Nodejs, graphql, Mysql, redis and elastic search which are split across multiple services. All of this lives in mono repo with "turn key" docker powered development environment allowing you as a developer to focus on what matters. Everything packed in a next generation PWA (Progressive Web Application) running in kiosk mode on Google Chrome OS devices, making us one of the first Google partners to build PWA's for the new ChromeOS web API's.

Some Example Projects

Streaming pay per view sport events in commercial venues through our PWA POS integrations with multiple providers to gather sales insights

Real time curation of User Generated Content into tv like channels

Content scheduling a programing for multi region setups

Essential Duties and 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.
• Have a general understanding the EverPass platform and its components, and how to match our quality standards
• Keep their team updated with their own status
• Be able to identify risk and propose solutions to complex challenges
• keep themselves updated with the technologies involved in our platform
  
  

Knowledge & Experience:

• 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????).
• 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 and Perks:

• Competitive Compensation
• Medical insurance
• Professional Development Programs
• Employee Recognition Program
• Paid Parental Leave
• Type of work: Hybrid
• Virtual Social Events including: Team Wins and Highlights from the Month, Cultural and Diversity Spotlights, and Happy Hours
  
  

About EverPass:

EverPass Media is a comprehensive media platform dedicated to commercial businesses, that aggregates, distributes and enables streaming of live sports and entertainment content, and offers a wide array of consumer engagement and performance marketing tools for bars, restaurants, hotels and other commercial venues. Launched initially as the exclusive distributor of NFL Sunday Ticket to commercial establishments in the United States, EverPass partners with rightsholders, distribution partners and business owners to unlock greater access to premium live events and drive business growth. EverPass was founded in 2023 in partnership with RedBird Capital Partners and 32 Equity, the strategic investment arm of the National Football League. TKO Group Holdings, parent company of UFC and WWE, joined as an investor in 2024.