YouTube · 13 hours ago
Senior Live Video Network Engineer, YouTube
New York, NY
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$147K/yr - $216K/yr
5+ years expYouTube is a platform committed to empowering voices and fostering community through storytelling. The Senior Live Video Network Engineer will focus on building and optimizing the network infrastructure for live video streaming, ensuring high performance and resilience. This role involves architecting solutions for complex multicast environments and developing automation tools for network management.
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Responsibilities
Architect, design, and implement scalable, resilient, high-performance network solutions, with a specialized focus on complex multicast environments (PIM, IGMP, MSDP) and virtualization efforts. Drive capacity planning and cloud convergence projects
Build, maintain and expand our network automation platform using GoLang. Develop custom tools and services to automate network provisioning, configuration management, and monitoring
Serve as the highest escalation point for complex network issues, particularly those related to multicast routing and automated systems. Identify and optimize network performance and stability
Learn traffic traversing on the network- the transport protocols, video compressions, metadata and traffic patterns. Perform packet analysis and extend networking expertise to the general video streaming solution and architecture space
Work with business stakeholders, software engineering, SRE, and layer 1 deployment teams to ensure the network meets the needs of our applications and services
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
5 years of experience at a streaming service or in broadcast media digital distribution
5 years of experience with data analysis and SQL/MySQL
5 years of experience in system design and network architecture
Experience with video encoding and content metadata
Preferred
Experience designing, deploying, and troubleshooting large-scale multicast routing environments
Experience building network automation frameworks and tools (e.g., Ansible, Nornir, or custom-built solutions)
Experience building or supporting high-bandwidth applications in cloud environments (preferably GCP)
Familiarity and working knowledge of Kubernetes (preferably GKE), and comfortable working with APIs, data modeling, and configuration templating
Understanding of audio/video signal processing and protocols, media streaming system components, and media streaming domain
Software development skills with demonstrated proficiency in functional programming, preferably Go and Python
Benefits
Bonus
Equity
Benefits
Company
YouTube
YouTube is a platform for sharing and watching videos, including movies, music clips, and amateur content.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$11.5MKey Investors
Artis Ventures,Sequoia CapitalSequoia Capital
2006-10-01Acquired
2006-03-30Series Unknown· $8M
2005-11-01Series A· $3.5M
Leadership Team
Neal Mohan
CEO
Angela Courtin
Vice President, YouTube Marketing Brand, Creative, Culture & Media
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