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Apple

Senior Video SRE

San Diego, CA · On-site

... video encoding specialists to drive shared ownership of service reliability and maintain ... senior-level impact. Production ownership at scale including on-call/incident response, post ...

Apple

Senior Video SRE

San Diego, CA

$142K - $263K/yr

... video encoding specialists to drive shared ownership of service reliability and maintain ... senior-level impact. Production ownership at scale including on-call/incident response, post ...

Stryker

Senior Video Systems Engineer

San Jose, CA · On-site

$101K - $168K/yr

Hybrid or Onsite Stryker is seeking to hire a Senior Video Systems Engineer as part of our ... Experience with digital video systems, including video acquisition, processing, encoding/decoding ...

Stryker

Senior Video Systems Engineer

Flower Mound, TX · Hybrid

$101K - $168K/yr

Hybrid or Onsite Stryker is seeking to hire a Senior Video Systems Engineer as part of our ... Experience with digital video systems, including video acquisition, processing, encoding/decoding ...

Stryker

Senior Video Systems Engineer

San Jose, CA · Hybrid

$101K - $168K/yr

Hybrid or Onsite Stryker is seeking to hire a Senior Video Systems Engineer as part of our ... Experience with digital video systems, including video acquisition, processing, encoding/decoding ...

Paramount

Senior Software Engineer

Burbank, CA · On-site

$130K - $171K/yr

Senior Software Engineer (Video) Location: Burbank, CA / New York, NYC - Onsite Overview The Video ... Identify bottlenecks and optimize video workflows to improve efficiency across encoding and ...

Paramount

Senior Software Engineer

Burbank, CA

$130K - $171K/yr

Senior Software Engineer (Video) Location: Burbank, CA / New York, NYC - Onsite Overview The Video ... Identify bottlenecks and optimize video workflows to improve efficiency across encoding and ...

Paramount

Senior Software Engineer

Manhattan, NY · On-site

$134K - $177K/yr

Senior Software Engineer (Video) Location: Burbank, CA / New York, NYC - Onsite Overview The Video ... Identify bottlenecks and optimize video workflows to improve efficiency across encoding and ...

Versant Media

Sr. Software Engineer

Orlando, FL · Remote

$114K - $150K/yr

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Video Encoding and Delivery team, where you will contribute to the systems that ingest, encode, package, and deliver premium video content for ...

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As of Jul 10, 2026, the average yearly pay for senior video encoding in the United States is $80,287.00, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $41,500.00 and $103,000.00 per year, depending on experience, location, and employer.

What is the difference between Senior Video Encoding vs Video Compression Specialist?

AspectSenior Video EncodingVideo Compression Specialist
Required CredentialsBachelor's in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field; experience with encoding softwareSimilar credentials; focus on compression algorithms and codecs
Work EnvironmentMedia companies, streaming services, post-production studiosBroadcast, streaming, multimedia companies
Industry UsageUsed in video production, streaming, broadcastingApplied in optimizing video files for storage and transmission
Common Search/ComparisonYesYes

Both roles involve working with video files, but Senior Video Encoding focuses on creating high-quality encoded videos using various codecs and software, while Video Compression Specialists primarily optimize video files for efficient storage and transmission through compression techniques. The roles often overlap, but encoding emphasizes quality and format standards, whereas compression emphasizes reducing file size without significant quality loss.

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Infographic showing various Senior Video Encoding job openings in the United States as of July 2026, with employment types broken down into 7% Locum Tenens, 67% Full Time, 18% Part Time, 2% Contract, and 6% Summer. Highlights an 68% Physical, 2% Hybrid, and 30% Remote job distribution, with an average salary of $80,287 per year, or $38.6 per hour.
Senior Video SRE

Senior Video SRE

Apple

San Diego, CA • On-site

Full-time

Re-posted 12 days ago

Apple rating

8.1

Company rating: 8.1 out of 10

Based on 667 frontline employees who took The Breakroom Quiz

5th of 30 rated technology retailers

Job description

Imagine a world where every video stream starts instantly, every live event plays flawlessly, and the perfect movie finds you before you even search. As a Senior Video SRE at Apple, you'll turn this vision into reality. You'll tackle unprecedented scale challenges, engineer systems that self-heal, and ensure our video applications and infrastructure remain rock-solid when millions tune in simultaneously. If you thrive on solving complex distributed systems problems and want your work to directly impact how the world experiences entertainment, this is your opportunity.
Description
As a Senior Video Site Reliability Engineer at Apple, you will be responsible for the reliability, scalability, and performance of our distributed applications that serve millions of users globally. You will build strong partnerships with application development teams, sister SRE teams, platform teams, product teams, as well as video encoding specialists to drive shared ownership of service reliability and maintain exceptional quality of experience for our customers.
Your day-to-day work will include embedding reliability practices into the development lifecycle, building sophisticated monitoring and observability solutions, and developing automation to reduce operational toil.
You will own critical infrastructure components that video services depend on, and use data-driven approaches to identify and eliminate single points of failure. You will lead reliability design reviews and define SLO frameworks that set the standard for service health. As part of the role, you will participate in on-call rotations, lead incident response efforts, and drive post-incident reviews that result in meaningful reliability improvements.
This role offers the opportunity to work with complex JVM-based microservices and distributed systems technologies and influence architectural decisions that shape how Apple delivers video streaming content worldwide.
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Systems Engineering with demonstrated senior-level impact.
Production ownership at scale including on-call/incident response, post incident reviews and driving operational improvements.
Strong understanding of Linux fundamentals and networking principles, with experience operating and debugging production systems.
Proficiency in at least one programming language (Shell, Python, Go, or similar) to reduce toil, build SRE tooling, and improve operability.
Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure and container orchestration.
Excellent troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills across the full technology stack.
Effective communicator who can collaborate with cross-functional partners to drive reliability outcomes.
Preferred Qualifications
Thorough understanding of distributed systems fundamentals, failure modes, and resilience patterns that prevent cascading outages.
Track record of building and continuously improving observability (metrics/logs/traces), alert quality, and incident response processes for complex, high-traffic environments.
Hands-on performance optimization, capacity planning, and reliability engineering (load testing, bottleneck analysis, degradation strategies).
Proven ability to build and operate Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD pipelines, including safe deployment practices and change risk controls.
Experience debugging and operating JVM-based applications in production (e.g., understanding of GC, thread analysis, heap profiling).
Working knowledge of database systems, key-value stores, caching layers, message queues, and storage infrastructure at scale.
Familiarity with video streaming technologies, codecs, protocols, and media delivery infrastructure.

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Imagine what you could do here! At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish. Dynamic, intelligent people and inspiring, innovative technologies are the norm here. The people who work here have reinvented entire industries with all Apple Hardware products. The same real passion for innovation that goes into our products also applies to our practices strengthening our dedication to leave the world better than we found it.

Industry

Computer and electronic product manufacturing

Company size

10,000+ Employees

Headquarters location

Cupertino, CA, US

Year founded

1976

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