Senior Media Streaming Engineer

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The Walt Disney Company

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Entertainment • Technology • Media • Movies • Television

10,000+

💰 Post-IPO Debt on 2020-04

Description

• Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology reimagining magical viewing experiences. • Designing the infrastructure powering Disney’s media and advertising businesses. • Building products reaching millions of consumers across various platforms. • Innovating techniques enhancing audience experience in sports, entertainment & news. • Critical position in Media Delivery Live team for live streaming and packaging workflows. • Responsible for maintaining video encoding and packaging portion of live streaming ecosystem. • Contributing to design, deployment, and maintenance of live encoders.

Requirements

• 5 or more years of progressively complex related experience. • B.S. in Computer Science, Information Technology, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience • Experience working in a video OTT/broadcast environment. • Ability to work independently to solve problems in both the video and IT domains • Knowledge of video codecs and compression (H.264/AVC, H.265/HEVC) • Knowledge of audio codecs and containers (AAC, PCM, AC-3, EAC-3, MPEG-1 Layer-II) • Knowledge of ABR/OTT technologies (HLS, DASH) • Knowledge of MPEG Transport Streams in broadcast and ABR workflows • Comfortable with Mac, Linux, and Windows environments, specifically on the command line. • Strong communication skills. • Basic scripting experience (BASH, Python, Ruby) • Basic experience with automation suites (AWX/Ansible, Puppet) • Experience with REST API communication, either manually (cURL/Postman), or programmatically (through a scripting language library) • Experience writing technical documentation for consumption by both technical and non-technical people. • Basic understanding of DAI workflows in an OTT environment. • Comfortable troubleshooting with Transport Stream and Elementary Stream analyzers • Basic experience with command-line video tools like FFMPEG, MP4Box, and TSDuck • Basic network transport knowledge (Multicast, TCP/UDP) • Comfortable acting as a technical lead to other departments to address and resolve technical issues. • Knowledge of the ANSI/SCTE 35 specification preferred.