Streaming Engineer - Remote

Overview

TEGNA Inc. serves local communities across the U.S. through trustworthy journalism, engaging content, and tools that help people navigate their daily lives. We are seeking a Streaming Engineer to bolster our infrastructure team, which oversees the entire audio and video encoding supply chain, from content acquisition to delivery.

In Short

• Design and implement innovative live streaming workflows.
• Develop support tools, scripts, and dashboards to enhance operational efficiency.
• Troubleshoot encoding and segmentation issues to ensure seamless streaming.
• Maintain and support our live encoders and VOD transcoding farms.
• Document workflows and standard operation procedures for knowledge sharing.
• Provide guidance to external teams on live encoder/packaging workflows.

Requirements

• B.S. in Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or equivalent professional experience.
• 2+ years of progressively complex related experience.
• Experience in a video OTT/broadcast environment.
• Basic understanding of DAI workflows in an OTT environment.
• Ability to work independently to solve problems in both the video and IT domains.
• Proficiency in video codecs and compression (H.264/AVC, H.265/HEVC).
• Familiarity with audio codecs and containers (AAC, PCM, AC-3, EAC-3, MPEG-1 Layer-II).
• Comfortable working with Mac, Linux, specifically on the command line.
• Strong communication skills to effectively collaborate with teams.
• Basic scripting experience (BASH, Python, Ruby).
• Comfortable troubleshooting with Transport Stream and Elementary Stream analyzers.
• Experience with video transport protocols such as RTMP, SRT, Zixi, HLS, MPEG-DASH.
• Experience supporting live-streaming delivery at scale.
• Experience working with AWS Elemental products considered a plus, but not required.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits designed to safeguard the physical, mental and financial health of employees and their families.
• Two medical plan options for full and part-time employees.
• Access to dental and eye care coverage; fertility, surrogacy and adoption assistance; disability and life insurance.
• 401(k) program with company match.
• Nine free virtual doctor’s appointments and 12 free annual therapy sessions.
• Generous Paid Time Off (PTO) benefit and nine paid holidays per year.