What are the responsibilities and job description for the Video Player Engineer - Roku (INTL, LATAM or US) position at Insight Global?
Job Description
Insight Global is looking for a Roku Video Player Engineer for their large media and entertainment clients. This is 6-month contract (likely extensions) and is remote requiring working Pacific Standard Time. You will be joining the Digital Video Platform organization that leads the video and player engineering teams responsible for this companys digital video ecosystem (Sports, News, Entertainment), including live and VOD offerings. This team builds video player frameworks which are then consumed by a variety of the clients apps; sports, news, weather, Venu. This team builds the video players that these other teams integrate into their specific platforms / apps (Roku, iOS, Android). This team gets product requests from different business units across the org and they need to prioritize them ( it might be to build a feature specific to weather, to sports etc). They also assist these BU's with integrations. This is a mid level-senior engineering role where the successful candidate must understand how live streaming video works, how to optimize it and how to optimize video players for best user experience. This person will face challenges such as finding rebuffering issues, improving start times of videos, solving things like how to do DVR and allow someone to scrub forward and backwards on live streams.
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Skills and Requirements
7 years of development / engineering experience
Recent experience with Roku engineering; experience with brightscript / scenegraph
Video Player Engineering experience. Should have experience developing, maintaining and optimizing the video playback functionalities and video streaming within the Roku platform
Experience working on / supporting a Live video streaming application.
Experience with streaming protocols such as HSL & DASH
Experience / familiarity building and distributing SDK components
Able to design and implement player features on Roku Player Analytic platform experience (Mux and / or Conviva) null
We are a company committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments where people can bring their full, authentic selves to work every day. We are an equal employment opportunity / affirmative action employer that believes everyone matters. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion,sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, national origin, ancestry, genetic factors, age, disability, protected veteran status, military oruniformed service member status, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, andordinances. If you need assistance and / or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request to HR@insightglobal.com.
