For this role you must be able to work on a hybrid basis with at least 2 days per week working in the Mumbai office in Andheri.
This role sits within Deltatre's Video team, building and operating the end-to-end video infrastructure that delivers live and on-demand content for major sports rights owners, broadcasters, and media companies worldwide. The team's pipelines handle the full path from source signal to consumer device — encoding, packaging, delivery, and the integrations that connect them.
As a Senior Video Engineer, you will focus on the backend engineering of these pipelines: designing, scripting, and maintaining the workflows that run on cloud infrastructure. The work spans the AWS Elemental stack (MediaLive, MediaConnect, MediaPackage, MediaConvert), CDN configuration, DRM integration, and the automation that keeps the platform deployable and operable at scale.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and validate end-to-end video pipelines in cloud environments
- Develop and maintain scripts that automate video pipeline deployment, updates, and configuration changes
- Configure and manage backend systems and video-related products — the work requires light development as well as configuration
- Translate business requirements into technical specifications, working across multiple vendors and stack components
- Document and own the technical architecture of large-scale video implementations
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Product, Engineering, Operations, Client teams) to deliver clean integrations
- Develop deep knowledge of Deltatre's video products and services over time
You produce work that others can build on. You take ownership of features from design to production, and you treat video infrastructure as a craft — not only a delivery target. You make decisions that hold up under live event load, and you document them clearly enough that the team can use them after you have moved to the next problem.
Required
- 5+ years' relevant backend or applications engineering experience, with at least 1 year specifically in the video industry (OTT preferred)
- Solid proficiency in Python, with working knowledge of JavaScript, JSON, and XML
- Hands-on experience managing AWS video pipelines — AWS Elemental, including MediaLive, MediaConnect, MediaPackage, MediaConvert
- Familiarity with streaming protocols — HLS, DASH, CMAF
- Experience with CDN configuration, particularly CloudFront and Akamai
- Working understanding of DRM systems and configuration
- Solid understanding of the OTT ecosystem
- Clear communicator, comfortable working independently and across vendor and stakeholder relationships
- Comfortable across multiple concurrent workstreams; able to prioritise effectively
Valued
- Experience with cloud video workflows beyond AWS (e.g., GCP or Azure media services)
- Knowledge of video delivery QoS metrics and optimisation
- Familiarity with DRM platforms such as CastLabs DRMtoday
- Exposure to video orchestration platforms such as Harmonic VOS360
- Genuine interest in sport — useful for context on the events being supported
Who Thrives Here
Video engineering at Deltatre runs at the intersection of broadcast operations and software platform. The pipelines you build and maintain are what carry live sport from source to viewer — and the technical decisions you make echo across that path. The work rewards engineers who care about the small details — the moment when an encoder lags, the milliseconds added by a misconfigured CDN, the encoding profile that almost-but-not-quite serves a specific device — and who can hold the longer-arc view of how the infrastructure evolves over multiple live event seasons.
A good Senior Video Engineer at Deltatre tends to be honest about what is working in the pipeline and what is not, generous with knowledge transfer to less experienced engineers, and curious about how the AWS stack, the CDNs, and the DRM layer interact in production. The role rewards engineers who leave the documentation and runbooks slightly better than they found them after each cycle.
Process and what to expect
- Introductory conversation: a step for us to get to know each other better, and for us to answer all questions you might have around Deltatre.
- Take-home assessment: a practical exercise you complete in your own time, designed to show us how you approach a real engineering problem. We will use it as the basis for the technical conversation.
- 1-hour Technical round of Interview: we will deep dive on your experience and on the take-home assessment, and explore the technical decisions you have made in your past work.
- 1-hour Competency Based Interview: we will ask you situational questions around how you deal with real-life scenarios at work. Easier doing it, more than explaining it.
If any of these formats would be difficult for you, tell us — we adjust regularly and can usually accommodate.
Accessibility and accommodation questions are welcome at any stage. Tell us what would work for you.
