Principal Media Streaming Engineer

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