Senior Media Streaming Engineer

Job ID 10107700 Location Amsterdam, Netherlands Business Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology Date posted Jan. 08, 2025

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Job Summary:

About the Role & Team

Would you love to be at the forefront of shaping the future of video streaming technology?

Are you passionate about video encoding technologies and optimizing video streaming systems? As a Senior Media Streaming Engineer at Disney, you will be part of the Media Delivery Live team, which is responsible for the entire audio and video encoding supply chain from content acquisition to delivery, consisting of an agile and responsive team of technicians that perform the daily processes and procedures of our live and on-demand video streaming products. The department’s responsibilities provide round-the-clock support for these products, ensuring proper functionality across all platforms and front-end playback scenarios. The Media Delivery Live team provides technical and engineering support for our partner products, including workflow design and implementation, incident management and system health monitoring for live streaming media orchestration and cross-team communications.

If selected, you will report to the Director Media Streaming Engineering – Emanuel Parisi.

This role will require you to be onsite 4 days a week in our Amsterdam office with one day working from home.

What You Will Do

You would join a diverse and networked team that collaborates on initiatives that drive streaming video technology to the next level. What makes us different from other media streaming groups? We use innovation and technical experience to transform projects into experiences that can directly impact the happiness of our Subscribers.

This is a critical position on the Media Delivery Live team, a small team of engineers responsible for implementing, maintaining and supporting live streaming, and packaging, workflows for Disney’s over-the-top video products. It is an excellent opportunity for someone looking to advance their career in the live streaming space working in a dynamic, fast-paced, and sophisticated technical environment.

You will be responsible for building, and maintaining, the video encoding and packaging portion of Disney’s live streaming ecosystem. You will be a main contributor to the design, deployment, and maintenance of live encoders in our production environments. The ideal candidate would an extensive background in live video streaming technologies. The ideal candidate must also have strong troubleshooting skills within the entire live video streaming ecosystem.

Every single day is different! On any one day you might:

Design and implement new live streaming workflow
Development support tools, scripts & dashboards
Develop automation scripting and video analysis tools
Independently develop and carry out engineering projects that support ever changing workflows and requirements.
Identify and implement optimizations related to live encoder monitoring and alerts in our QA and production environments.
Troubleshoot encoding and segmentation issues.
Independently develop and carry out engineering projects that support ever changing workflows and requirements.
Provide maintenance/support of our live encoders and packagers.
Provide training to internal team members.
Documentation of workflows and standard operation procedures
Provide external teams with guidance related to live encoder/packaging workflows.

Required Qualifications & Skills

Significant progressively complex related experience.
Proficient in English
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 with 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/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.

The Walt Disney Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We strive to be a diverse workforce that is representative of our audiences, and where all can thrive and belong. Disney is committed to forming a team that includes and respects a variety of voices, identities, backgrounds, experiences and perspectives.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided the necessary accommodations to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive all benefits of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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About Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology:

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Technology (DE&E Technology) provides the technological backbone and product development for Disney’s two media business units, while helping to keep the company at the vanguard of innovation – enabling the Company to continuously leverage technology to enhance storytelling and creativity, while delivering scalability, flexibility, and efficiency for its businesses.

About The Walt Disney Company:

The Walt Disney Company, together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading diversified international family entertainment and media enterprise that includes three core business segments: Disney Entertainment, ESPN, and Disney Experiences. From humble beginnings as a cartoon studio in the 1920s to its preeminent name in the entertainment industry today, Disney proudly continues its legacy of creating world-class stories and experiences for every member of the family. Disney’s stories, characters and experiences reach consumers and guests from every corner of the globe. With operations in more than 40 countries, our employees and cast members work together to create entertainment experiences that are both universally and locally cherished.

This position is with TWDC (Benelux) BV, which is part of a business we call Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology.

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