Job Description
**Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology**
On any given day at Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology, we’re reimagining
ways to create magical viewing experiences for the world’s most beloved
stories while also transforming our media business for the future. Whether
that’s evolving our streaming and digital products in new and immersive ways,
powering worldwide advertising and distribution to enhance flexibility and
efficiency, or delivering Disney’s unmatched entertainment and sports content,
every day is a moment to make a difference to partners and to hundreds of
millions of people around the world.
A few reasons why we think you’d love working here:
- Building the future of Disney’s media: DE&E; Technologists are designing and building the infrastructure that will power our media, advertising, and distribution businesses for years to come.
- Reach & Scale: The products and platforms this group builds and operates delight millions of consumers every minute of every day – from Disney+ and Hulu, to ABC News and Entertainment, to ESPN and ESPN+, and much more.
- Innovation: We develop and implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms and enhance how audiences experience sports, entertainment & news.
- *Media Engineering** is an innovative organization that is focused on
providing the best possible video playback experience, art, and metadata to
customers around the world, powered by exceptional technology. This strategic
work requires streamlining and repurposing technology across different
business and distribution channels – including streaming, linear, and
theatrical – so that technology can ebb and flow across the needs of the
business.
**Job Summary**
Our combined Disney and Hulu team is looking for hardworking team players to
join the Media Engineering team, who will thrive upon the legacy of Disney and
Hulu, embrace unconventional thinking, and who are passionate about
contributing to The Walt Disney Company’s direct-to-consumer (DTC) experience
through strategic hard work and determination.
Our team is seeking a Lead Software Engineer, Video Analytics to help us
deliver excellent streaming experiences for Hulu and Disney+ as a developer of
our client player. Our team is responsible for playback across several devices
including gaming consoles and set top boxes. You will have the opportunity to
lead in the design and implementation of our cross-platform CC++ and Rust
player that runs Disney+ and Hulu on these devices.
We’re looking for an experienced CC++ or Rust engineer who has video player
and cross platform development experience. You should have a passion for
coding and debugging hard problems, and an eagerness to help us deliver
seamless video to our subscribers. As a lead engineer, you will get to own
large features, lead the technical direction of our work, and mentor and
provide technical expertise to other engineers. You will work closely with
other technical teams in the application layer and backend video services to
deliver features.
- *Job Responsibilities**
- Develop and maintain our Rust and CC++ player that drives our streaming experience
- Optimize our player to perform well for resource constrained platforms
- Create and review architecture and designs for our team’s projects
- Maintain a strong understanding of our code to identify, research and address issues, collaborate with application development teams, services engineering teams and product management to help understand and explain device limitations and requirements
- Lead in strategies to ensure the quality and stability of our deployments, including testing strategies and telemetry approaches
- Develop our project’s build system and continuous integration system as needed
- Provide technical expertise or mentoring to developers on our team, hold our team accountable to high development standards
- *Basic Qualifications**
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, andor equivalent experience
- Minimum of 7 years of related work experience
- Long record of full software development lifecycle experience
- Fluent in C and C++ or Rust
- Willing to learn Rust
- Experience developing and optimizing multi-threaded applications
- Experience using build runners compilation tools for multi-platform projects
- Strong individual contributor with a drive to learn and patience to teach others
- Great communication and collaboration skills and a strong teamwork ethic
- *Preferred Qualifications**
- Rust
* Experience in Streaming technologies, including:
- HLS (preferred) or DASH
- DRM technologies like Playready or Widevine
- Adaptive Bitrate Streaming Algorithms
- Caption and subtitle formats such as CEA-608 708
- Codecs AVC, HEVC, AAC, EAC3
- Video analytics experience, for example Adobe Analytics, Nielsen, Comscore, Conviva
- Cross-Platform Development
- Embedded operating system experience
- Experience developing for gaming consoles (e.g. Playstation, Switch), Android devices (e.g.FireTV), or similar devices
- Familiarity with set-top box development and specialized SoCs from manufacturers like Broadcom, MediaTek, etc.
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The hiring range for this position in Seattle, Washington and New York City is
$159,500.00 - $213,900.00 per year and in Bristol, Connecticut, Santa Monica,
California and Glendale, California is $152,200.00 - $204,100.00 per year and
in Morrisville, North Carolina is $142,200 - $190,600 per year. The base pay
actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary
depending on the candidate’s geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills,
and experience among other factors. A bonus andor long-term incentive units
may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full
range of medical, financial, andor other benefits, dependent on the level and
position offered.
Job Tags
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