Sr Media Performance Engineer, Distribution

工作 ID 10111953 地點阿姆斯特丹, 荷兰 有意工作的公司 Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology 日期已公佈 Feb. 11, 2025

申請

工作概要:

About the Role & Team

On any given day at Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology, we’re reimagining ways to create magical viewing experiences for the world’s most beloved stories while also transforming our media business for the future. Whether that’s evolving our streaming and digital products in new and immersive ways, powering worldwide advertising and distribution to enhance flexibility and efficiency, or delivering Disney’s unmatched entertainment and sports content, every day is a moment to make a difference to partners and to hundreds of millions of people around the world.

A few reasons why we think you’d love working here:

Building the future of Disney’s media: DE&E Technologists are designing and building the infrastructure that will power our media, advertising, and distribution businesses for years to come.
Reach & Scale: The products and platforms this group builds and operates delight millions of consumers every minute of every day – from Disney+ and Hulu, to ABC News and Entertainment, to ESPN and ESPN+, and much more.
Innovation: We develop and implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms and enhance how audiences experience sports, entertainment & news.

Media Engineering builds the software and systems that prepare media content and metadata for the Disney Streaming platform - providing the best possible playback experience to our viewers. Media Engineering handles audio, video, & metadata content from ingest through publish - for normalization, processing, and packaging - supporting operator tools and automation for a scalable workflow. We build and coordinate logic across players and back-end services to measure, control, and optimize playback across our stack.

About the Team

The Media Experience, Performance Engineering - Distribution Team is nested at the intersection of technology and innovation within Disney Entertainment and ESPN Technology (DE&ET).

What You Will Do

In the role of Media Experience Senior Performance Engineer on the Distribution team, your daily responsibilities will require a combination of strategic planning, time management around internal initiatives, an ability to collaborate with development, operations and engineering teams, a hands-on approach to leadership and mentoring within the larger Media Experience organization, while utilizing cross-functional skills to ensure optimal performance across the Media Experience Distribution team and Disney owned and operated streaming services.

This position offers an opportunity for personal and professional growth, providing exposure to cutting-edge technology within the realm of streaming services.

Analyze health of products utilizing internal and third-party tooling
Act as first responder to both internal and external delivery escalations
Execute mitigation steps to limit windows of impact
Curate documentation for issue tracking and impact analysis
Manage distribution policies using internal tooling
Support live events, high-profile content sunrises and feature releases

Required Qualifications & Skills

3+ years of substantial experience in streaming media, content distribution, or video technology.
3-5+ years of proven expertise in Live Video Streaming Systems, including encoding, distribution, and playback.
Comprehensive understanding of the live and VOD content delivery life cycle – “glass to glass”.
Experience in implementing distributed systems with a focus on microservice architecture.
Proven success in a high-availability, large-scale production environment on AWS or another public cloud.
In-depth knowledge of video compression, codec standards (H.264/AVC, H.265/HEVC, AV1), encoding bitrate ladders, and rate control.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to mentor junior team members.
Strong quantitative, analytical, problem-solving, debugging, and decision-making skills.
Proficient interfacing with OTT and mobile devices (Roku, Game Consoles, Apple TV, Android, iOS, etc.).
Familiarity with network-level tools; ThousandEyes, Kentik, Catchpoint.
Expert use of data visualization tools; Grafana, Datadog, Kibana, Splunk.
Understanding of CDNs and their relation to network operations, transit, and peering.
Experience in designing and maintaining a matrix of complex documentation.
Experience with ticketing and tracking systems like JIRA and Confluence.
Confidence in negotiating and working with third-party services and device manufacturers.
Background in technical project management.
Ability to conduct independent research.
Analytical self-starter mindset.
Consistent track record of delivering results through ambiguity.
Knowledge of video streaming quality metrics and technical aspects affecting the viewer experience.
Ability to identify and resolve performance issues, optimizing end-user experience.
Hands-on experience with tooling used to analyze subscriber data, trends, and performance metrics.

Preferred Qualifications

Exposure to Live and VOD Video Streaming Systems
Strong desire to showcase understanding of encoding, distribution, and playback.

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.

This role will be based within the Netherlands

申請

關於Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology:

Disney Entertainment 和 ESPN Technology (DE&E Technology) 為 Disney 的兩個媒體業務部門提供技術骨幹和產品開發，同時幫助公司處於創新尖端，使公司能夠不斷利用技術增強故事講述和創造力，同時為其業務提供可擴展性、靈活性和效率

關於 The Walt Disney Company:

Walt Disney Company 連同其子公司和聯營公司，是領先的多元化國際家庭娛樂和媒體企業，其業務主要涉及三個範疇：Disney Entertainment、ESPN 及 Disney Experiences。Disney 在 1920 年代的起步之初，只是一間卡通工作室，至今已成為娛樂界的翹楚，並昂然堅守傳承，繼續為家庭中每位成員創造世界一流的故事與體驗。Disney 的故事、人物與體驗傳遍世界每個角落，深入人心。我們在 40 多個國家/地區營運業務，僱員及演藝人員攜手協力，創造全球和當地人們都珍愛的娛樂體驗。

這個職位隸屬於 TWDC (Benelux) BV，其所屬的業務部門是 Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology。

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