Principal Engineer, Video Player Technology

Company Description

NBCUniversal owns and operates over 20 different businesses across 30 countries including a valuable portfolio of news and entertainment television networks, a premier motion picture company, significant television production operations, a leading television stations group, world-renowned theme parks and a premium ad-supported streaming service.

Here you can be your authentic self. As a company uniquely positioned to educate, entertain and empower through our platforms, Comcast NBCUniversal stands for including everyone. We strive to foster a diverse and inclusive culture where our employees feel supported, embraced and heard. We believe that our workforce should represent the communities we live in, so that together, we can continue to create and deliver content that reflects the current and ever-changing face of the world. Click here to learn more about Comcast NBCUniversal’s commitment and how we are making an impact.

Job Description

Welcome to Peacock, the dynamic new streaming service from NBCUniversal. Here you’ll find more than a job. You’ll find a fast-paced, high-performance team of incredible colleagues that want to be at the epicenter of technology, sports, news, tv, movies and more. We work hard to connect people to what they love, each other and the world around them by creating shared experiences through culture-defining entertainment.  

As a company, we embrace the power of difference. Our team is committed to creating an organization that champions diversity and inclusivity for all by curating content and a workforce that represents the world around us.  We continue to challenge ourselves and the industry by being customer-centric, data-driven creatures of innovation. At Peacock, we are determined to forge the next frontier of streaming through creativity, teamwork, and talent.  

We’re growing our team of smart, hungry, and upbeat doers who crave the chance to build something new at the epicenter of content, tech, and culture.

Peacock is looking for an experienced Principal Engineer to lead the technical direction and evolve our engineering culture within Video Player Technology. You will become a part of an engineering team building video players and video playback capabilities, streaming content to millions of customers.

The team build video playback SDKs which are integrated into each application across all of Peacock’s supported devices. As such, this role would be best suited to an experienced engineer with excellent communication skills and attention to detail.

You will lead the technical direction across multiple device platforms, ensure API consistency, mentor individuals, embrace diversity and help with building an inclusive and flexible workplace. In this hands-on role, you will be delving into the detail - from code reviews across the teams to contribution to complex solution design and working closely and collaboratively with the application and streaming teams.

What the team does

• Develops libraries providing video playback capabilities of DASH and HLS formats, including ad insertion and video analytics
• Collaborates with video streaming and encoding teams to drive innovation and improvements in video delivery and playback user experience
• Collaborates with teams building Peacock applications, ensuring optimal integration of the video players libraries on all types of devices

Responsibilities

• Work with the engineers across the codebases in TypeScript/JavaScript, Swift, Java and BrightScript to ensure that technical solutions are built in a performant, scalable and consistent way across all devices
• Collaborate both internally and externally across the broader technology organization to ensure sensible and consistent APIs that are both intuitive and easy to use
• Evangelise excellent engineering culture and best practice
• Participate in code reviews across multiple programming languages
• Support requirements analysis by translating high level feature requirements into technical video playback capabilities
• Work closely and collaboratively with engineering managers of the development teams
• Mentor junior engineers in the team and be an integral part to the hiring process to ensure we are onboarding the best talent
• Continuously learn, improve and optimise processes and ways of working
• Provide constructive feedback to help your direct reports grow in their professional careers

Qualifications

Desired Qualifications:

• 6+ years of relevant experience in software engineering
• Expert in at least one of the following languages:
  • TypeScript/JavaScript
  • Swift
  • Java
  • BrightScript
• Working knowledge of streami