Video Platform Engineer

Job summary

Ocean Infinity is seeking a Video Platform Engineer to lead the technical architecture, development, and optimisation of their global maritime video platform. This role involves owning the end-to-end video ecosystem, from vessel-based capture systems to customer-facing delivery platforms. The ideal candidate will be hands-on and comfortable with various video technologies and cloud-native streaming stacks.

Qualifications

• 6+ years industry experience designing and operating production video systems at scale (streaming, broadcast, surveillance, telepresence, or remote operations).
• Deep knowledge of video codecs and containers: H.264/AVC, H.265/HEVC, AV1, VP9, MPEG-TS, fMP4, CMAF.
• Strong command of streaming protocols: SRT, RIST, RTP/RTCP, RTMP, WebRTC, HLS, and MPEG-DASH.
• Hands-on expertise with FFmpeg, GStreamer, or equivalent video processing toolchains, including hardware acceleration and pipeline debugging.
• Experience with constrained or adversarial networks (satellite, cellular, mesh, high-latency/lossy environments).
• Solid software engineering fundamentals in at least one systems language (Go, Rust, C++, or Python).
• Comfortable working in Linux-based edge and cloud environments.
• Cloud video experience with services such as AWS Elemental (MediaLive, MediaConvert, MediaPackage), Azure Media Services, or equivalent self-hosted stacks.
• Ability to communicate complex video and networking concepts to senior, non-specialist stakeholders.
• Ability to act as a trusted advisor across functions.
• Driven, proactive, and able to work autonomously with minimal supervision.
• Open and receptive to new ideas; happy to challenge and be challenged.
• Works well both as part of a multi-disciplinary team and independently.
• Thoughtful, thorough, and conscientious; takes pride in engineering done well.
• Enthusiastic about protecting people and the planet, and motivated by Ocean Infinity’s mission.
• Curious about the wider operation, not only the video system.
• Experience in maritime, offshore, aviation, defence, or other operationally constrained domains (desirable).
• Familiarity with ROV video systems, subsea camera arrays, or other industrial imaging payloads (desirable).
• Experience with LEO satellite services (Starlink, OneWeb) including their performance and operational quirks (desirable).
• Exposure to autonomy, computer vision, or ML-on-video pipelines (object detection, scene understanding, summarisation) (desirable).

Responsibilities

• Lead technical architecture, development, and optimisation of the global maritime video platform.
• Own the end-to-end video ecosystem, including vessel-based capture, ship-to-shore transport, edge/cloud processing, storage, and customer delivery.
• Design scalable video systems for live operational workflows, regulatory compliance, ROV operations, and external customer services.
• Support other projects.
• Define technical standards for compression, transport, storage, and playback across the fleet.
• Evaluate, design, maintain, and support video encoding, compression codecs, container formats, streaming protocols, and metadata integration.
• Support integration of video products like CCTV, Marine Mammal Observation, and Digital Video Recorders.
• Engineer and tune reliable, resilient ship-to-shore video transport pipelines for constrained satellite networks.
• Partner with the Networks team on QoS, traffic shaping, multi-WAN bonding, and prioritisation policies.
• Optimise delivery pipelines for operational monitoring, ROVs/AUVs, customer-facing video portals, and regulatory workflows.
• Champion security and access control, including encryption, identity-based access, and audit trails.
• Collaborate with autonomy, payload, ROV, and operations teams to understand video consumption in the Remote Operations Centre and on vessels.

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