Senior Video Application Engineer

We are seeking a Senior Video Application Engineer with strong experience in video platforms, cloud technologies, and production support. The ideal candidate will be responsible for ensuring operational readiness, monitoring system performance, supporting deployments, and troubleshooting complex issues across video streaming and backend services in a fast-paced environment.

• Manage operational readiness across video platforms including authentication, onboarding, purchase flows, cloud DVR, entitlements, channel lineups, metadata, caching, VOD, and streaming services.
• Monitor system health, alerts, and dashboards using tools such as Splunk, Datadog, or ELK to ensure high availability and performance.
• Support production deployments, release readiness, post-deployment validation, and ongoing production support for backend video services.
• Troubleshoot complex issues related to customer access, entitlements, middleware, recordings, and video delivery systems.
• Validate data flows across customer account systems, middleware layers, and video platforms.
• Perform root cause analysis (RCA) and implement solutions to improve system reliability and performance.
• Support capacity planning, scalability assessments, and system performance optimization.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless service delivery and platform stability.

• 6+ years of experience in video platforms, cable/media domain, or streaming services.
• Strong experience with video backend APIs, microservices, and distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience with AWS cloud services and deployment of applications in cloud environments.
• Experience with containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Strong experience in monitoring and observability tools such as Splunk, Datadog, or ELK stack.
• Expertise in production support, deployments, and release management.
• Strong debugging skills across multiple REST APIs and data sources.
• Experience with system architecture validation and service design assessment.

• Experience in video streaming technologies and platforms.
• Knowledge of video service capacity planning and scalability.
• Familiarity with end-to-end video delivery lifecycle and customer experience flows.