Streaming Media Engineer
Family: Specialized domains
Builds the pipelines and players that encode, package, deliver, and adapt video and audio streams to millions of concurrent viewers.
Day to day
Implements ABR streaming logic, tunes encoder settings for quality-bitrate tradeoffs, debugs playback stalls in CDN logs, and A/B tests rebuffering metrics.
Core skills
- HLS/DASH
- FFmpeg/video codecs
- CDN configuration
- adaptive bitrate algorithms
- WebRTC