NEP Group is a world leader in live and broadcast production services, supporting premier events across sports, entertainment, and live events. Our teams design and deliver cutting-edge technical solutions that bring content to audiences worldwide. Within NEP, the TFC team plays a critical role in orchestrating complex multi-platform workflows, ensuring seamless integration between technology, operations, and clients.
NEP Australia is currently looking for a Software Engineer to join the NEP Platform Orchestration team and to help drive development and maintenance of API integrations and low-level software components.
This role is based at our state of the art Andrew’s HUB in Southbank, Melbourne. The role is primarily business hours, with hybrid options and may require occasional travel and weekend work.
The positionWe are looking for a Software Engineer to join the NEP Platform development team. Working closely with the Product and Architecture teams to understand and refine technical requirements while delivering deployable solutions and accompanying documentation to achieve objectives of the Product team.
This role specifically will require proven software development experience across multiple languages, including but not limited to Go. Extensive experience in networking, cloud technologies, and a proven ability to work with API’s for diverse systems including but not limited to REST, gRPC, and WebSocket’s.
Key Responsibilities but not limited to:
- Write secure, production-ready code (primarily in Go) and adapt to other languages when needed.
- Design, implement, and test new features; maintain CI workflows.
- Optimize code for performance and troubleshoot issues.
- Collaborate with team members on PRs, code reviews, and pair programming.
- Provide clear documentation for users and commissioning teams.
- Consult with stakeholders and support operational goals as required.
- Extensive software development experience across multiple languages.
- Proficiency with Linux, Kubernetes, and cloud-native technologies.
- Strong understanding of networking protocols (HTTP, SDP, RTP)
- Proficient in database design, data modelling, and microservice architectures.
- Experience designing and integrating APIs for diverse systems, including REST, gRPC, protocol buffers, WebSocket’s, and other protocol-based communications, including bespoke TCP-based binary protocols.
- Familiarity with Wireshark and writing custom dissectors in Lua.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and message brokers (e.g., RabbitMQ, NATS).
- Understanding of and broadcast media network standards (NMOS, ST2022, ST2110).
NEP believes that, first and foremost, the efforts of our people are what contribute to our successes. We offer a range of benefits that assist our team in their professional development and wellbeing, including:
- Salary continuance insurance
- NEP Days – additional 5 days of leave per year (conditions apply)
- NEP Travel benefits & discounts including Qantas Club Membership
- Discounts through Employment Hero Rewards
- Employee Assistance Program
This is a full-time role and is a unique opportunity for the right person. So if you want to be part of a global company apply today!
You must have the right to live and work in Australia to apply for this job.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
About Our Process
At NEP, we are committed to employing individuals who align with Our Values and meet the requirements of the role. As part of the recruitment process, there are several checks which may be conducted to demonstrate applicants' suitability for a role including police / criminal background checks, right to work checks, and reference checks.
NEP is the largest media technology partner for content producers of live sports, entertainment, and corporate events globally. For more than 35 years, NEP has been delivering innovative products and services that enable clients to make, manage and show the world their content—anywhere, anytime, on any platform.
As a trusted partner working on some of the largest productions in the world, NEP offers a complete set of end-to-end solutions, from content capture to distribution—including a growing portfolio of transformational cloud-based, software-based and virtualized technologies.
• NEP’s Live Production solutions range from AV services and live audience enhancements to traditional outside broadcast and cutting-edge centralized and cloud production.
• NEP’s Virtual Production solutions start at the creative stage and end with exceptional execution across ICVFX, augmented reality, LED stages and more.
• NEP’s Media Processing solutions provide the tools and products our clients need to ingest, edit, store, search, manage and distribute their digital assets to rights holders across multiple platforms.
Headquartered in the United States, NEP has operations in 25 countries with over 4,000+ employees. Together, NEP has supported productions in over 100 countries on all seven continents and is still growing. Clients range from the leaders in sport, music, film and TV, to major corporate brands, agencies, to new content owners and creators all around the world.
Anywhere, anytime, on any platform—we help our clients make, manage, and show the world their content.
Skills Required
- Extensive software development experience across multiple programming languages
- Proficiency with Linux, Kubernetes, and cloud-native technologies
- Strong understanding of HTTP, SDP, and RTP networking protocols
- Proficiency in database design and data modelling
- Experience with microservice architectures
- Experience designing and integrating REST, gRPC, protocol buffer, WebSocket, and TCP-based binary protocol APIs
- Familiarity with Wireshark and writing custom Lua dissectors
- Strong understanding of distributed systems and event-driven architectures
- Experience with message brokers such as RabbitMQ or NATS
- Understanding of broadcast media network standards including NMOS, ST 2022, and ST 2110
- Right to live and work in Australia
NEP Group, Inc. Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is typically comprehensive—medical, dental, vision—with options like HSA/PPO and company‑paid life/short‑term disability referenced in company materials. Feedback suggests eligibility for U.S. staff can begin quickly and overall healthcare is viewed as solid.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) plan with company match is consistently highlighted, with automatic enrollment and a tiered match noted in earlier guides. This indicates structured retirement support alongside the core benefits.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid holidays, vacation/PTO, and sick time are offered to full‑time staff, with documented accrual tiers in prior U.S. guides. Role pages and benefit overviews regularly reference these leave categories across locations.
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What We Do
NEP Group is the world’s leading media technology partner for content producers of live sports, entertainment and corporate events – and even if you don’t know our name, you’ve seen our work. Our clients range from the leaders in sport, music, film and TV, to major corporate brands, agencies, and new types of content creators. From international award shows to major sporting events to global product launches to world concert tours and festivals, we power thousands of live events and broadcasts each year, reaching millions of fans and viewers around the world. Anywhere, anytime, on any platform—we help our clients make, manage and show the world their content. Come be a part of it!
