Software Engineer, Broadcast & Video Formats

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🌐 Germany, Portugal, +2 more countries – Remote

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Vidispine

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

51 - 200 employees

Founded 1996

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

📣 Marketing

Consulting • Logistics • Marketing

Vidispine is a company that empowers organizations working with media to enhance their core business by streamlining complexities, improving collaboration, and increasing efficiencies in the media supply chain. They offer a comprehensive portfolio of solutions designed to maximize the potential of digital assets, including tools for media management, broadcast management, and content optimization. Their products range from workflow orchestration tools to video editing solutions, all aimed at transforming media management and production processes.

📋 Description

• Implement and maintain media-handling features for ingest, analysis, transcoding, proxy generation, and delivery in broadcast-grade formats • Analyze and resolve format-related issues including non-conformant files, interlace/frame-rate problems, audio channel mapping, timecode errors, and metadata errors • Integrate and tune transcoders and media tools such as FFmpeg, MediaInfo, and commercial transcoding engines in containerized workflows • Map and validate technical and descriptive metadata against broadcast standards and customer specifications • Support customer projects and escalations with media-domain expertise • Contribute to code quality and security using SonarQube and Mend • Contribute to CI/CD pipelines • Document format and workflow knowledge for the team • Work in a team on Kubernetes-based, GitOps-delivered services with architectural guidance from senior architects

🎯 Requirements

• Hands-on experience in broadcast, post-production, or MAM environments • Solid knowledge of codecs: H.264/AVC, HEVC, MPEG-2, ProRes, DNxHD/DNxHR, XDCAM HD/IMX, AVC-Intra, JPEG 2000 • Solid knowledge of containers: MXF (OP1a, OPAtom), MP4/MOV, MPEG-TS, ideally IMF • Knowledge of video fundamentals: interlaced vs. progressive, frame rates including 29.97/59.94 and drop-frame timecode, aspect ratios, color spaces (BT.601/709/2020), basics of HDR (PQ/HLG) • Knowledge of audio channel layouts and mapping, sample rates, and loudness (EBU R128) • Experience with media metadata and subtitle/caption formats such as EBU Core, SMPTE, BWF, EBU-TT/STL, TTML, and CEA-608/708 • Practical experience with FFmpeg and media analysis tooling • Programming experience in Java, .NET, or C# and comfort working with REST APIs • Working knowledge of Kubernetes and Helm, plus Git-based workflows • Structured, quality-conscious way of working • Fluent English; German is a plus • Working knowledge of AWS, including S3, EKS, and IAM basics • Experience with Azure DevOps and GitHub • Day-to-day use of SonarQube and Mend, including fixing findings • Nice-to-have: experience with Vidispine or similar MAM platforms • Nice-to-have: delivery specifications such as AS-11 (UK DPP), IMF, or broadcaster-specific specifications such as ARD/ZDF • Nice-to-have: knowledge of live and IP workflows such as SMPTE ST 2110 and SRT • Nice-to-have: experience with AI/ML-based media enrichment • Nice-to-have: familiarity with AWS media services such as MediaConvert