The Principal Media Streaming Engineer will be part of the Media Delivery team, responsible for designing, building, and supporting the systems and workflows powering Disney's on-demand video streaming products.
Requirements
- Minimum of 10 years of progressively complex related experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Electrical Engineering, and/or equivalent work experience
- Experience designing and building VOD processing and encoding workflows
- Experience working with on prem, and cloud based, transcoding and encoding solutions
- Ability to work independently to solve problems in both the video and IT domains
- Deep knowledge of video codecs and compression (H.264/AVC, H.265/HEVC, AV1)
- Knowledge of audio codecs and containers (AAC, PCM, AC-3, EAC-3, Dolby Atmos)
- Strong to advanced experience with command-line video tools like FFMPEG, MP4Box, and MediaInfo
- Extensive knowledge of ABR/OTT technologies (HLS, DASH, CMAF)
- Expert understanding of video fundamentals (resolution, frame rates, color spaces, HDR)
- Comfortable with Mac, Linux, and Windows environments, specifically on the command line
- Strong communication skills
- Advanced scripting experience (Python, BASH, Ruby)
- Experience building automation tools, dashboards, and reporting systems
- Experience with REST API communication, preferably programmatically (through a scripting language library)
- Experience writing technical documentation for consumption by both technical and non-technical people
- Experience with data visualization and metrics platforms (Grafana, Datadog, or similar)
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Comfortable acting as a technical lead
Benefits
- Medical
- Financial
- Other benefits