Principal Playback QoE Engineer

Oracle

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Work type
On-site
Location
Seattle, WA · Redwood City, CA · Austin, TX · Broomfield, CO · Nashville, TN
Salary
$99,600–$234,600 / yr
Posted
13 days ago

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This role $167k
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TL;DR · Principal Playback QoE Engineer

As a Senior Principal Playback QoE Engineer at OCI, you will join a pioneering team to develop real-time quality intelligence for OVE’s live streaming infrastructure. Your daily responsibilities include defining playback QoE metrics, designing telemetry pipelines using Kafka and Flink, processing large-scale playback events, and building real-time aggregations and dashboards. You will also correlate playback data with backend systems to enhance end-to-end video quality and support customer-facing reporting. Ideal candidates have over 10 years of experience in distributed systems, strong knowledge of streaming media behavior, and hands-on skills with Java, Scala, Python, or Go. Familiarity with HLS, DASH, and CDN operations is essential, as is the ability to debug across client, edge, backend, and data processing layers. This role offers a unique opportunity to shape QoE standards for high-scale media delivery platforms during major live events.

What you'll do

  • Define OVE’s canonical playback QoE metric model.
  • Design and build real-time QoE telemetry pipelines using streaming systems like Kafka or Flink.
  • Process large-scale playback events across various dimensions for comprehensive analysis.
  • Build real-time aggregations, anomaly detection, alerting, and live-event dashboards.
  • Correlate playback telemetry with OVE infrastructure behavior to enhance reliability.

What we're looking for

  • 10+ years of experience in software engineering or distributed systems
  • Strong understanding of video playback QoE metrics and streaming media behavior
  • Hands-on experience with Kafka, Flink, Spark Streaming, or similar large-scale streaming data systems
  • Experience designing real-time pipelines using event-time processing and stateful aggregation
  • Strong debugging skills across client, edge, backend, and data processing layers
  • Familiarity with HLS, DASH, low-latency streaming, CDN behavior, or player telemetry
  • Programming skills in Java, Scala, Python, Go, or similar production engineering languages

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