Senior Media Streaming Engineer

$112,600 - $151,000/Yr

Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology - New York, NY

Full-time - Mid Level

New York, NY

About the position

As a Senior Media Streaming Engineer at Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology, you will play a crucial role in the Media Delivery Live team, responsible for the entire audio and video encoding supply chain from content acquisition to delivery. This position focuses on building and maintaining the video encoding and packaging workflows for Disney's live streaming ecosystem, ensuring optimal functionality across all platforms and playback scenarios. You will work in a dynamic and fast-paced environment, contributing to the design, deployment, and maintenance of live encoders, while also providing technical support and training to internal teams.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain the video encoding and packaging portion of Disney's live streaming ecosystem.
• Design and implement new live streaming workflows.
• Develop support tools, scripts, and dashboards.
• Create automation scripting and video analysis tools.
• Independently develop and carry out engineering projects that support changing workflows and requirements.
• Identify and implement optimizations related to live encoder monitoring and alerts in QA and production environments.
• Troubleshoot encoding and segmentation issues.
• Provide maintenance and support for live encoders and packagers.
• Provide training to internal team members.
• Document workflows and standard operating procedures.
• Guide external teams related to live encoder/packaging workflows.

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 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 both technical and non-technical audiences.
• 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.

Nice-to-haves

• Knowledge of the ANSI/SCTE 35 specification.

Benefits

• Medical, financial, and other benefits depending on the level and position offered.
• Bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package.