Sr. Software Engineer

Company Description
NBCUniversal is one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies. We create world-class content, which we distribute across our portfolio of film, television, and streaming, and bring to life through our theme parks and consumer experiences. We own and operate leading entertainment and news brands, including NBC, NBC News, MSNBC, CNBC, NBC Sports, Telemundo, NBC Local Stations, Bravo, USA Network, and Peacock, our premium ad-supported streaming service. We produce and distribute premier filmed entertainment and programming through Universal Filmed Entertainment Group and Universal Studio Group, and have world-renowned theme parks and attractions through Universal Destinations & Experiences. NBCUniversal is a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation.
Comcast NBCUniversal has announced its intent to create a new publicly traded company ('Versant') comprised of most of NBCUniversal's cable television networks, including USA Network, CNBC, MSNBC, Oxygen, E!, SYFY and Golf Channel along with complementary digital assets Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, GolfNow, GolfPass, and SportsEngine. The well-capitalized company will have significant scale as a pure-play set of assets anchored by leading news, sports and entertainment content. The spin-off is expected to be completed during 2025.
FANDANGO
Over the past twenty years, Fandango has built a network of direct-to-consumer digital brands, where 50 million+ fans unite to celebrate their love for movies, TV and streaming. We take pride in serving fans throughout their entertainment journey from content discovery to theatrical moviegoing to watching at home. Our portfolio includes leading online movie ticketer, Fandango , which tickets for more than 31,000 U.S. movie screens; world-renowned entertainment review site, Rotten Tomatoes ; and Fandango at Home (previously known as Vudu), the on-demand streaming service offering the industry's best selection of 4K UHD titles and more than 250,000 new release and catalogue movies and next day TV shows.
Job Description
We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Video Encoding and Delivery team with Fandango at Home, where you will contribute to the systems that ingest, encode, package, and deliver premium video content for millions of users across VOD, AVOD, and Live workflows. Your focus will be on developing and optimizing our video ingestion, encoding, packaging, and validation services, ensuring efficient, secure, and reliable video delivery across a wide range of devices and platforms.
Why This Role?
You'll be a key part of a mission-critical team that ensures Fandango at Home delivers high-quality, reliable video to millions of users. You won't just write code-you'll build the infrastructure that powers content readiness, streaming performance, and end-user satisfaction. And you'll do it as part of a collaborative, deeply technical team with strong leadership and high-impact goals.
You will work closely with the team's Principal Engineer and collaborate across engineering, infrastructure, and quality domains to evolve our cloud-based media pipeline. This is a hands-on role ideal for an experienced backend or media systems engineer who takes pride in clean, maintainable code and thrives in high-performance, distributed environments.
What Role Will You Play?
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will:

• Build and enhance our video ingestion, encoding, packaging, and validation systems to support scalable, secure, and standards-compliant video delivery (e.g., DASH, HLS, CMAF).
• Own features and services that manage the content lifecycle-from ingestion through final packaging and readiness for playback.
• Integrate seamlessly with ad-related workflows, ensuring proper signaling and playback behavior.
• Collaborate with other engineering teams to optimize compatibility and performance across diverse platforms.
• Partner with quality and test engineers to automate validation and ensure accurate, efficient content delivery.
• Contribute to platform reliability by building systems that are observable, maintainable, and scalable in modern cloud environments.
• Support future efforts to build internal tools and services that evaluate and improve encoding quality.

Your Daily Tasks

• Develop and maintain distributed microservices for video ingestion, encoding, packaging, validation, and lifecycle management.
• Debug and resolve issues related to playback performance, packaging compliance, and system reliability.
• Build automation to test, validate, and monitor content readiness across platforms and regions.
• Participate in design reviews and collaborate with the Principal Engineer on key system improvements.
• Work within an Agile team, contributing to regular stand-ups, planning sessions, and retrospectives.

Qualifications
Technical Skills

• 5+ years of experience in software development, with strong expertise in Python and Java.
• Practical experience with video delivery technologies, including ingestion pipelines, encoding, packaging, validation, DRM, and encryption.
• Familiarity with streaming protocols and manifest formats such as DASH, CMAF, and HLS.
• Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure (AWS) and containerization technologies (Kubernetes, Docker).
• Exposure to CI/CD pipelines, Git workflows, and automated testing strategies.

Collaboration & Soft Skills

• Strong communicator who can work effectively across technical and operational domains.
• A proactive problem-solver with a keen eye for diagnosing and resolving edge-case playback and packaging issues.
• Passion for learning and staying current with evolving video standards, cloud practices, and secure delivery models.
• Experience working in a distributed team across time zones and disciplines.

Nice to Have:

• Proficiency in scripting or additional languages such as C, C++, Bash.

Fully Remote: This position has been designated as fully remote, meaning that the position is expected to contribute from a non-NBCUniversal worksite, most commonly an employee's residence. #LI-remote
Additional Information
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Although you'll be hired as an NBCU employee, your employment and the responsibilities associated with this job likely will transition to Versant in the future. By joining at this pivotal time, you'll be a part of this exciting company as it takes shape.
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