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Streaming Technology Expert
🕒 19 days ago
Video Streaming ArchitecturesAudio Streaming ArchitecturesStreaming ProtocolsCodecs
📜 Description
- Investigate complex technical questions across products, architectures, protocols, and implementations.
- Develop evidence-based technical assessments and prepare reports, diagrams, and comparisons.
- Research streaming technologies, standards, industry practices, and emerging risks.
- Assess technical risks and support due diligence for products and architectural decisions.
- Document architectures, data flows, algorithms, DRM, CDNs, and media pipelines.
- Review major technical decisions and explain findings to technical and non-technical teams.
🛠️ Requirements
- Deep hands-on knowledge of video and audio streaming architectures, protocols, codecs, CDNs, and related technologies.
- Ability to independently analyze complex systems, standards, implementations, and architectures.
- Strong communication skills, including explaining technical topics to non-technical audiences.
- Native or near-native English proficiency.
- Experience with complex technical reviews involving US-based stakeholders is a plus.
- Experience preparing technical materials for external review or formal assessment is a plus.
✨ Benefits
- Competitive compensation with a service contract.
- Performance reviews twice a year, with bonus opportunities and salary adjustments.
- Annual allowance for home office improvements
- Sports activities
- Equipment upgrades
- Paid language courses and access to learning platforms.
- Mindfulness benefit, including psychological support with 50% coverage.
- Peer reward program recognizing team contributions.
Full job description
Mayflower is a technology company building highload products used by millions of people worldwide. Operating at the scale of one of the world's top-50 websites, we solve complex engineering challenges and create solutions that power real-time entertainment for a global audience.
We are looking for a Principal Streaming Technology Expert will serve as the company's senior technical authority on streaming technologies, supporting complex technical assessments, technology risk analysis, deep technical research, and strategic decision-making.
Job Responsibilities
Complex Technical Analysis:
Investigate complex technical questions related to products, architecture, protocols, and implementations.
Develop evidence-based technical positions on complex matters.
Work with internal stakeholders and external experts on complex technical assessments.
Prepare technical reports, diagrams, comparisons, and supporting materials.
Explain complex streaming technologies to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Technology Landscape & Risk Research:
Research technologies, standards, publications, implementations, and industry practices.
Compare company solutions with existing industry approaches and implementations.
Conduct technical risk analysis related to technologies, standards, and third-party solutions. 👈
Support technical due diligence and risk assessments for products and architectural decisions.
Track important technology trends and developments across the streaming ecosystem.
Maintain awareness of emerging technical risks affecting the company's technology strategy.
Technology Research & Documentation:
Perform deep technical research relevant to the company's streaming platform and products.
Maintain documentation of architecture, protocols, data flows, algorithms, DRM, CDNs, and media pipelines.
Create technical diagrams, implementation analyses, and historical technical records.
Investigate third-party technologies, standards, open-source components, and commercial solutions.
Maintain understanding of how company technology differs from existing technical approaches.
Preserve institutional knowledge around key architectural and engineering decisions.
Internal Technical Authority:
Act as a streaming technology expert across engineering, product, executive, and cross-functional teams.
Review major architectural decisions requiring additional technical assessment or risk analysis.
Collaborate with senior engineers and architects on complex technical reviews.
Independently analyze source code, specifications, standards, protocols, and production architectures.
Provide independent technical judgment on complex or sensitive technology questions.
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