Software Engineer I, Media Engineering

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, and metadata content from ingest through publish - for normalization, processing, and packaging - supporting operator tools and automation for a scalable workflow. We build logic across players and back-end services to measure, control, and optimize playback across our stack.

Our combined Disney and Hulu team is looking for hardworking team players to join the Media Engineering team, who will thrive upon the legacy of Disney and Hulu, embrace unconventional thinking, and who are passionate about contributing to The Walt Disney Company’s direct-to-consumer (DTC) experience through strategic hard work and determination.

The Software Engineer I will be part of the Media Engineering team, which works on building out the scalable distributed systems for processing media that is core to our products.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain and improve software
• Manage individual project priorities, deadlines and deliverables

Qualifications

• BA/BS degree in Computer Science or related software engineering field or equivalent practical experience
• 1-3 years of developing software products
• Experience in programming with Scala or Javascript and proficient with one or more general purpose programming languages (Rust, Java, Scala, Javascript, C#, C++, etc)