Senior Software Engineer
About The Position
Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is a global organization of engineers, product developers, designers, technologists, data scientists, and more, focused on building and advancing the technological backbone for Disney’s media business globally. The team combines technology with creativity to build world-class products, enhance storytelling, and drive velocity, innovation, and scalability for our businesses. We work with every part of The Walt Disney Company’s media portfolio to advance the technological foundation and consumer media touch points serving millions of people around the world. Media Engineering builds the software and systems that prepare media content and metadata for the Disney Streaming platform, ensuring the best possible playback experience for viewers. This involves handling audio, video, and metadata content from ingest through publish, including normalization, processing, and packaging. The team also supports operator tools and automation for a scalable workflow, and builds logic across players and back-end services to measure, control, and optimize playback. Our team is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to contribute to delivering excellent streaming experiences for Hulu, Disney+ and ESPN+ by developing our web-based JavaScript player. This role involves playback across various devices including browsers, televisions, gaming consoles, and set-top boxes. The Senior Software Engineer will have the opportunity to lead the design and implementation of our cross-platform JavaScript player. We are looking for an experienced engineer with video player and cross-platform development experience, excellent JavaScript and web development fluency, and a passion for coding and debugging. As a Senior engineer, you will own large features, lead technical direction, and mentor other engineers. You will collaborate closely with other technical teams in the application layer and backend video services.
Requirements
- BS or BA in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field or equivalent experience
- 5+ years of full software development lifecycle experience
- Highly fluent in JavaScript and web technologies
- Experience developing for web browsers & other web-based client devices
- Experience in Streaming technologies, such as: 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
- Experience developing and optimizing high-performance client-side media 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
- Experience using AI-assisted development tools effectively
Nice To Haves
- Experience developing for living room devices, e.g. Samsung, LG, Hisense, Vizio.
- Experience developing for gaming consoles (e.g. Playstation, Switch), Android devices (e.g.FireTV), or similar devices
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain our JavaScript player that drives our streaming experience
- Optimize our player to perform well for resource constrained platforms
- Create and review architecture and technical designs
- 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
- Drive high development standards
Benefits
- A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package
- the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
Associate degree
