Broadcast engineer - Live Video Augmentation and Distribution

By bringing together next-gen technology and the finest live data available, Genius Sports is enabling a new era of sports for fans worldwide, delivering experiences that are more immersive, interactive and personalised than ever before. Learn more at geniussports.com

THE ROLE: Genius Sports is seeking a broadcast engineer to help scale and support the operation and delivery of our cutting-edge live broadcast augmentation products across major sports leagues and global media organizations. This role requires an understanding of live sports broadcasting, the ability to collaboratively define, develop and improve system monitoring, recoverability and automation, alongside the willingness to work flexible hours to support live sports events.

You will be working alongside our video augmentation, video transcoder and content teams, in delivering sports augmented live sports broadcasts.

The adecuado candidate has worked in broadcasting or in a technical support role, has Linux experience and can script in Python or Javascript.



There is an expectation that the candidate will grow their knowledge around video protocols alongside their development skills. This role is ideal for someone who has a technical support background and burgeoning development skills and is interested in building out their development and automation skills required for a devops or development role in the future. Technical expertise, strong live sports production experience, and the ability to guide junior staff while collaborating closely with engineering and client teams. The role is a hybrid between site reliability engineering, broadcast engineering and product operations.

What you’ll do
- Oversee, set up and manage both on‑premise hardware and cloud‑based video pipelines for our live video systems, including sports augmentation.
- Build automations, runbooks and dashboards to provide effective troubleshooting in order to resolve compl

📌 Broadcast engineer (Medellín)
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