Amagi is an AI-enabled industry cloud platform built for the new video economy, helping media companies modernize operations, unify streaming and broadcast workflows, and drive advanced monetization. From live remote production and real-time ad decisioning to automated playout and global content syndication. We operate a dynamic content and advertising marketplace and offer fully managed broadcast services that ensure 24/7 reliability and compliance. Trusted by 56% of the Top 50 media companies globally, Amagi powers over 7,000 channel deliveries across 300+ content distributors, processing 500K+ hours of content and generating 26 billion+ monetized ad impressions. Headquartered in Bengaluru, India, with a 1000+ member global team across Americas, EMEA and APAC, Amagi is redefining how media is created, distributed, and monetizedintelligently and globally.
Our identity and mission: Amagi, epitomizing the essence of freedom, embarks on an extraordinary mission to establish the world's foremost media technology business rooted in a foundation of goodness. Our commitment to autonomy is paralleled by our shared connection through a compelling purpose, with the Amagi Way serving as our guiding light. In our pursuit, we strive to create a harmonious blend of individual freedom and collective purpose, shaping a unique and transformative journey that sets us apart in the realm of media technology.
Work Mode : In Office
Location : Bengaluru (Bannerghatta Road)
Job Profile:
The Tech Lead will act as the main technical interface point with assigned customers to ensure that channel go-live happens on time, with quality. Be a partner to Project Manager and provide technical leadership during customer calls. It's a joint responsibility of the tech lead and PM to teach customers and educate them about whats possible and what's not.
Key Responsibilities:
- Understand how the customer will deliver assets, metadata, playlists, and write requirement specifications for the customization team.
- Understand any automation/customization/reporting requirements and any other requirements from requirements, write requirement specs, and coordinate with internal Engineering/Customization
- Work with customers and internal teams on any change in requirements.
- Understand customer requirements and advise on how to use Amagi's products and services to fulfil those requirements.
- Work closely with Implementation Engineers to deploy and configure Amagi's and third-party software solutions, and ensure the configurations and deployment are proper
- Build trusting relationships with customers and partners
- Adopt quality as a mindset. Ensure that everything being sent or delivered to the customer is tested and works as expected. Double-check the technical work done by the Product and Engineering team, the Customization team, DevOps, and/or the implementation teams
- Obtain a deep understanding of ALL Amagi products and services
- Guide, train, and mentor Implementation Engineers
- Work with the Engineering team to understand new features and deploy new customer requirements that are otherwise not supported by the product
- Be available to work in the US Shift
Skills and Expertise Required:
- Our ideal candidate has atleast 8 years of experience in the Media Tech domain, with at least 2 of them in an external customer-facing role.
- Expertise in Playout and Live orchestration systems
- Expertise in asset and metadata ingest and transcoding
- Expertise in at least one scheduling system
- Expertise in at least one playout system and graphics insertion system
- Experience in working with Transport Stream and various encoders
- Expertise in stream delivery over internet technologies - SRT, Zixi, HLS, DASH
- Expertise in stream delivery over fiber, ASI, and SDI
- Expertise in AWS media services - Medialive, Mediastore, MediaTailor, etc
- Knowledge of how EPG works
- Good Communication Skills
- Advanced Knowledge of various video codecs and standards
- Advanced knowledge of how playout systems work
- Good Interpersonal Skills
- Good Communication Skills
