Lead, Software Engineer
Job Description
Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to join their global team of innovators and technologists. This role sits at the intersection of technology and creativity, focusing on building and maintaining critical video playback and quality control systems that serve millions of users worldwide. The position offers an opportunity to work on high-impact streaming technology solutions within Disney's media portfolio.
The role involves leading the development and maintenance of sophisticated video playback systems, working with cutting-edge streaming technologies, and ensuring the highest quality video delivery to customers. You'll be responsible for implementing new features, maintaining the QC player stack, and collaborating with various teams on API design and integration.
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced software engineer who is passionate about video streaming technology and wants to make an impact at one of the world's leading entertainment companies. You'll be working with a diverse team of professionals, contributing to products that reach a global audience, and helping shape the future of digital media delivery.
The ideal candidate will bring deep technical expertise in video streaming technologies, strong leadership skills, and a proven track record of building production-grade playback systems. You'll be part of a team that values innovation, quality, and collaboration, working in an environment that combines the resources of a major corporation with the dynamic pace of a technology company.
Benefits include working with cutting-edge technology, professional development opportunities, and the chance to contribute to products used by millions of people worldwide. The role offers hybrid work arrangements and is based in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Responsibilities For Lead, Software Engineer
- Implement new developmental features on purposely built player for A/V QC ecosystem
- Maintain QC player stack used by operator team
- Collaborate on API design with backend and frontend teams
- Unblock issues blocking testing and release of VOD content
- Lead strategies for quality and stability of deployments
- Develop project's build system and continuous integration system
- Provide technical expertise and mentoring to developers
- Hold team accountable to high development standards
- Provide on-call rotational support
Requirements For Lead, Software Engineer
- 5+ years of experience building production-grade playback systems across platforms
- Deep knowledge of media streaming formats (HLS, CMAF, MPEG-DASH)
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering
- Advanced level of English
- Experience with subtitle formats and rendering pipeline
- Experience with Swift, AVFoundation, FairPlay, Kotlin/Java, ExoPlayer, Widevine DRM
- Understanding of async programming models and threading/concurrency
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and GitHub
- Experience with build and deployment technologies (Jenkins, Docker)
- Experience with messaging technologies (Kafka, Kinesis, SQS)
- Solid understanding of web accessibility fundamentals
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