Part time job Lead Software Engineer (C/C++ or Rust) Job ID- 1597

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. 

 

 

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.

 

 

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 C/C++ and Rust player that runs Disney+ and Hulu on these devices.

 

 

We’re looking for an experienced C/C++ 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.

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Job Responsibilities

Develop and maintain our Rust and C/C++ 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

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or 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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