Senior Principal Video Player and Video Encoding Engineer

Overview

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is building Oracle Video @ Edge, a next-generation streaming platform for live and linear video delivery. We are seeking a Senior Principal Video Player and Video Encoding Engineer to define how encoded media is prepared, delivered, and played back across OVE-supported environments.

Responsibilities

• Define OVE playback and encoding architecture for live and linear streaming
• Design encoding ladders, GOP structures, CMAF packaging profiles, and low-latency media preparation strategies
• Develop or guide player integrations across web, mobile, and CTV environments
• Tune ABR, buffering, startup, failover, and latency behavior for hybrid UDP and HTTP delivery
• Partner with relay, control plane, observability, and customer teams to debug end-to-end playback issues
• Define quality metrics and validation workflows for encoding and playback performance
• Support customer pilots, live-event readiness, and post-event analysis

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in video player development, media streaming systems, encoding systems, or related infrastructure
• Deep expertise in HLS, DASH, CMAF, low-latency streaming, ABR, buffering, and playback QoE
• Strong understanding of video encoding, codecs, bitrate ladders, GOP design, packaging, and device decode constraints
• Experience with DRM, ad break transitions, timed metadata, and live-event playback behavior is preferred
• Strong debugging skills across client, edge, origin, CDN, encoded media, and backend systems
• Programming experience in JavaScript, TypeScript, C++, Java, Go, Python, or similar production languages

Pay

Hiring Range in USD: $135,200 - $306,400 per year. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Short term disability and long term disability
• Life insurance and AD&D
• Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
• Flexible spending accounts
• Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
• 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
• Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits.
• Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits.
• For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment.
• Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week.
• Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
• 11 paid holidays
• Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
• Paid parental leave
• Adoption assistance
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Financial planning and group legal
• Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance