Bengaluru carries the work, through Roku, a TV-streaming platform, and JioStar and its app JioHotstar, which stream live cricket to millions of phones at once. Hyderabad appears through Crunchyroll, DAZN and the effects studio Scanline VFX, and Pune, Chennai and Mumbai through Mogi I/O, a video-streaming technology company. India also builds media technology sold worldwide, like Amagi's cloud playout for TV channels, Dolby Laboratories' sound and picture formats, and the visual effects of DNEG.
For an engineer, streaming is a data and infrastructure business. Data, Go and cloud engineers are far more common here than at a typical product company, and video itself brings C/C++ systems work close to the hardware. The workforce is senior.
Streaming and broadcast is one of the Industry Verticals of
The Market Segments run from the screen back to the studio, the services people watch, the technology that carries the video, the making of the picture and the sound, and the broadcaster's equipment.
The big streaming services and TV platforms, like JioHotstar, ZEE, Roku, Crunchyroll and DAZN, sit beside live streams and audio apps, like Eloelo, Loco and Rooter.gg.
Encoding, delivering, measuring and protecting video is the work of companies like Amagi, Harmonic, Bitmovin, Conviva and NAGRA.
Visual effects, sound and picture formats and AI dubbing come from companies like Dolby Laboratories, DNEG, Scanline VFX and NeuralGarage.
The equipment that runs a channel's control room is here through Evertz.
What streaming and broadcast companies hire software engineers for, and which roles they hire, is on