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Senior Software Engineer, Media Platforms
United States, Washington, Redmond · Senior
Sponsorship not specified$120k-$235kDetected 23 hours ago
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About the role
- This is a hands-on technical leadership role for an engineer who lives at the intersection of media, scale, and accessibility.
- You sweat the details, because a dropped stream or a missing caption is visible to the whole world at once.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain the live streaming and captioning platform that powers Microsoft's flagship events, including Microsoft Ignite and Microsoft Build.
- Own the video-on-demand hosting platform end to end - ingest, encoding, storage, and playback - so sessions are available reliably after they air.
- Build and evolve accessible, high-performance video players across web and device targets, with a first-class experience for captions, audio, and keyboard and screen-reader users.
- Design video encoding and adaptive-bitrate delivery, and tune content delivery through CDNs for low latency and high reliability at global scale.
- Own reliability end to end: set availability and quality targets, build in redundancy and graceful degradation, and lead live-event monitoring and incident response so critical moments never fail.
- Partner with product managers, event producers, accessibility specialists, and vendors to turn event requirements into resilient technical solutions.
- When a Microsoft Ignite or Microsoft Build keynote goes live, hundreds of thousands of people around the world watch it stream in real time - with captions, in their language, on whatever device they choose.
- You will own the engineering behind our live streaming and captioning pipeline, our video-on-demand hosting platform, and the players our audiences watch on.
- You will design and operate the systems that encode and deliver video to a global audience, generate and translate captions in real time, and render it all in fast, reliable, accessible players.
Requirements
- You are self-motivated and take ownership without being asked, and immovable event dates energize you rather than intimidate you.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with cloud media services (Microsoft Azure preferred), DRM, and low-latency streaming approaches.
- Experience with real-time speech-to-text, machine translation, or localization pipelines.
- A record of technical leadership, mentorship, and influence across teams and disciplines.
- Proficiency in streaming technologies and protocols, including live streaming, adaptive bitrate, and formats such as HLS and MPEG-DASH.
- Hands-on experience with video encoding and transcoding, codecs, and media processing pipelines.
- Experience with captioning and caption translation, including real-time caption workflows and standard caption formats.
- Experience delivering content at scale through CDNs, with a focus on low latency, high availability, and cost efficiency.
- https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
Compensation
- $120k-$235k
Company info
- The Microsoft Events organization builds the platform that makes that possible, and we are looking for a Streaming and Captioning Engineering Lead to develop and maintain it.
Equal opportunity
- equal opportunity employer.
- If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the
Visa & Work Authorization
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status
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