Sr Live Stream Broadcast Systems Engineer - AppleTV
Apple
Software Engineering
Culver City, CA, USA
USD 171,600-302,200 / year + Equity
Posted on Mar 28, 2026
The ASE Live Stream Engineering team is looking for a Live Stream Broadcast Systems Engineer. Our team powers live streaming experiences in the AppleTV app on Apple platforms and 3rd Party devices. You will contribute to the design and implementation of features, tools, and processes to ensure operational and engineering excellence in delivering live streaming events on the platform. Being a domain expert for live content acquisition, encoding, and delivery, you will drive investigations into any technical issues with the acquisition, ingest, encoding, and delivery. If this sounds like you, please apply now! We deliver highly available and performant solutions that power our outstanding live streaming experiences across the Apple TV App ecosystem.
You will work cross-functionally with internal teams to drive new features and processes. Interface with vendors on proof-of-concept evaluations and issue resolution. In this role, the incumbent will also support event-operations teams on live-streaming services. This role will consult on the setup and maintenance of live encoding workflows. You will also work with client teams to ensure features are performing as intended across devices. You will be challenged to diagnose and troubleshoot live video delivery issues with urgency. This role will also work with support teams to craft issue communication with leadership. Troubleshoot complex partner and vendor integrations. Creating, maintaining and executing playbooks, RCAs, and integration specifications.
- 8+ years experience
- Ability to effectively work with cross functional teams to understand requirements and design of highly performant video and media systems using IP based infrastructure, such as SMPTE-2110 and SMPTE-2022-7
- Deep understanding of live production technologies and buildout of large scale infrastructures focused on live broadcast systems
- Experience with video monitoring tools (Video and transport quality monitoring)
- Expertise with live streaming encoding technologies and transport networks (J2K, JPXS, MPEG, SRT and HLS Protocols)
- Experience with 4k, HDR and ATMOS in live transmission and streaming environments
- This role requires full-time, in-office attendance
- Network design and troubleshooting
- Some scripting experience (Python, Bash)
- Familiar with data interchange formats (XML, JSON)
- Familiar with SCTE-35/104 and SCTE-224/ESNI
- Experience analyzing system logs
- Experience with broadcast command and control integration
- This role will require occasional after-hours and weekend support.
- Experience working on data pipelines for log collection and monitoring
- Experience with issue tracking and technical documentation.
- Expertise designing, integrating and operating broadcast infrastructure
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