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About

• American video live streaming service
• Subsidiary of Amazon
• 140 million subscribers in 2022.

Transcode at Twitch.

(Source: https://gamejobs.co/Software-Engineer-Video-Transcode-at-Twitch)

Team in 2022

• Scalable transcoding solutions
• Transcoding Packaging and HLS media generation
• Integrate new codecs and technologies
• Support different video formats.

Bonus points for a SW engineer role in Twitch Transcode team

• Experience with modern C++ (C++14/17/20)
• Experience with C++ build systems (cmake, Conan)
• Experience in Go, Python
• Experience using AWS services
• Experience with containers / VM environments (Docker, Vagrant, Kubernetes)
• Contributions to open source software projects
• Experience with live video solutions and transcoding solutions (ffmpeg)
• Experience with video DRM solutions
• Experience with video codecs (H.264, HEVC, VP9, AV1, VVC) and audio codecs (AAC, OPUS, MP3)
• Experience with video containers and transmission protocols (FLV, RTMP, MPEG TS, MP4, HLS, WebRTC, DASH , CMAF )
• Experience with objective and subjective video quality assessment (PSNR, SSIM, VMAF, MOS , etc )

See also

• [YouTube]] ](/AshokBhat/notes/wiki/[[NetFlix)