Engineering Manager – Metadata Management

Department Summary

DISH is a Fortune 200 company that continues to redefine the communications industry. Our legacy is innovation and a willingness to challenge the status quo, including reinventing ourselves. We disrupted the pay-TV industry in the mid-90s with the launch of the DISH satellite TV service, taking on some of the largest U.S. corporations in the process, and grew to be the fourth-largest pay-TV provider. We are doing it again with the first live, internet-delivered TV service – Sling TV – that bucks traditional pay-TV norms and gives consumers a truly new way to access and watch television.  

Now we have our sights set on upending the wireless industry and unseating the entrenched incumbent carriers. 

We are driven by curiosity, pride, adventure, and a desire to win – it’s in our DNA. We’re looking for people with boundless energy, intelligence, and an overwhelming need to achieve to join our team as we embark on the next chapter of our story.   Opportunity is here. We are DISH.

Job Duties and Responsibilities

About this position

Have you worked with metadata to tailor customer streaming experiences? Do you want to develop differentiated capabilities for millions of customers? Are you constantly looking for new technologies such as Computer Vision and AI/ML to enable the creation of interactive and tailored streaming experiences? If so, we are looking for an engineering manager to join the Technology & Strategy Group within DISH Technologies, and lead a team of high caliber engineers designing, architecting and developing metadata processing and management solutions. Come be a part of changing the face of TV!

Responsibilities:

Primary responsibilities and skills include the following areas:

• A strong desire to learn new things and continually improve yourself and those around you with a “can do anything” mentality

• You live to experiment, test, fail fast, and learn as you go, we are not looking for a cookie cutter solution to our complex problems

• Contribute through hands-on technical inputs (can still code, if required and conduct code reviews)

• Contribute in design and architecture decision making for metadata processing and management

• Able to manipulate metadata to create new user experiences

• Able to leverage AI/ML and Computer vision to create interactive streaming features, including video clipping and highlights generation in a hyper-personalized manner

• Able to guide the team to setup metadata ingestion pipelines and conduct data synthesis

• Lead the integration of 3rd party provider feeds and metadata into Sling and DISH systems

• Enhance the pipeline for content curation, while automating where applicable

Skills, Experience and Requirements

Skills, Experience and Requirements

Must have:

• A 4-year college degree in Computer Science / Information Technology, Bachelor of Science preferred, master’s degree is preferred
• Superior knowledge of Object Oriented design and patterns
• Proficiency with GoLang (or Python)
• Experience with metadata modeling, ontology in the media/entertainment domain
• Overall understanding of media workflow and content ingest
• Knowledge of Media Asset Management (MAM), 3rd party metadata provider (Gracenote), and metadata packaging functions. OR an interest in learning about metadata and how it can be leveraged, manipulated and tailored to drive user experience and to create new OTT streaming features.
• Prior knowledge of building products/solutions in the media domain
• Familiarity with in-memory database such as Redis
• Experience working with and developing in AWS (including DynamoDB and DAX)
• Experience with Agile methodologies/DevOps environments
• Exceptional communication skills: verbal, written, listening

Nice to have:

• Experience with HTTP/REST and writing web services

• Experience with AI/ML to create personalized experiences.

• Understanding of computer vision technology

• Familiarity with a scripting language

Salary Range

Compensation: $140,250.00/Year - $180,750.00/Year
Compensation and Benefits

We also offer versatile health perks, including flexible spending accounts, HSA, a 401(k) Plan with company match, ESPP, career opportunities, and a flexible time away plan; all benefits can be viewed here: DISH Benefits.   

The base pay range shown is a guideline. Individual total compensation will vary based on factors such as qualifications, skill level, and competencies; compensation is based on the role's location and is subject to change based on work location. Candidates need to successfully complete a pre-employment screen, which may include a drug test and DMV check.