Description

Job Description
Work Locations:

• Nashville, TN
• Austin, TX
• Broomfield, CO

Overview

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is building Oracle Video @ Edge, a next-generation streaming platform for premium live and linear video delivery. We are seeking a Senior Principal Ad Tech and Video Protocols Engineer to define how monetization signals, ad workflows, and streaming protocols operate across OVE.

This role will ensure OVE supports revenue-critical ad insertion, measurement, timed metadata, protocol interoperability, and playback continuity across hybrid delivery paths.

Why OCI

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  Build monetization-aware streaming infrastructure for premium live events
  
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  Work across video protocols, playback, ad tech, edge delivery, and real-time operations
  
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  Shape a greenfield platform where protocol and monetization design can be built correctly from the start
  
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  Solve customer adoption blockers that directly affect revenue and platform credibility
  

Responsibilities
Responsibilities

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  Define OVE architecture for ad signaling, timed metadata, protocol behavior, and monetization integration
  
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  Design integration patterns for SSAI, CSAI, VAST, VMAP, SCTE-35, ad beacons, and measurement workflows
  
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  Drive protocol compatibility across HLS, DASH, CMAF, low-latency HLS, WebRTC, QUIC, and MoQ-adjacent delivery paths
  
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  Partner with player, packager, relay, control plane, observability, and product teams to validate live ad workflows
  
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  Debug playback, protocol, metadata, ad decisioning, and measurement failures during test and live-event scenarios
  
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  Define requirements for customer integrations, partner ecosystems, and live-event readiness
  
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  Support customer pilots, post-event reviews, and platform hardening for monetized live streaming
  

Qualifications

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  10+ years of experience in video streaming, ad tech, media platforms, protocol engineering, or related distributed systems
  
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  Deep knowledge of SSAI, CSAI, VAST, VMAP, SCTE-35, timed metadata, ad measurement, and live ad workflows
  
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  Strong understanding of HLS, DASH, CMAF, low-latency streaming, DRM interactions, playback behavior, and protocol edge cases
  
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  Experience designing integrations across players, packagers, ad decisioning systems, measurement vendors, CDNs, and edge infrastructure
  
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  Experience with high-scale live or linear streaming systems is strongly preferred
  
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  Programming experience in Java, Go, C++, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, or similar production languages
  
  

Qualifications
Disclaimer:

Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $96,800 to $251,600 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.
Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:
1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
2. Short term disability and long term disability
3. Life insurance and AD&D
4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
8. Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
9. 11 paid holidays
10. Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
11. Paid parental leave
12. Adoption assistance
13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan
14. Financial planning and group legal
15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.
Career Level - IC5

About Us
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Oracle is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans' status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Oracle will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to applicable law.
Requisition #: 334554

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