Principal Software Engineer
Company: Disneyland Hong Kong
Location: Morrisville
Posted on: March 15, 2025
Job Description:
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 Disney's
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 maximize 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.
- Building the future of Disney's media business: DE&E
Technologists are designing and building the infrastructure that
will power Disney's 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 execute groundbreaking products and
techniques that shape industry norms and enhance how audiences
experience sports, entertainment & news.Media Engineering builds
the software and systems which prepare, deliver, and play streaming
media content across the Disney media brands including Disney+,
Hulu, ESPN, and ABC. Our objective is to provide the best playback
experience in the industry to our viewers.Media Engineering handles
video, audio, and metadata for normalization, processing, and
packaging - supporting operator tools and automation for a scalable
workflow. We build logic across both players and back-end services
to measure, control, and optimize playback across our stack. We
embrace unconventional thinking and are passionate about
contributing to the Walt Disney Company's direct-to-consumer
experience.Our native player engineering team is seeking a
Principal Software Engineer to define the player architecture that
helps us deliver excellent streaming experiences for Disney+, Hulu,
ESPN, and other Disney brands as a developer and architect of our
client player. Our team is responsible for playback across several
devices including gaming consoles and set top boxes. You will have
the opportunity to lead in the design and implementation of our
cross-platform C/C++ and Rust player that runs Disney+ and Hulu on
these devices.We're looking for an experienced C/C++ or Rust
engineer who has video player and cross platform development
experience. You should have a passion for coding and debugging hard
problems, and an eagerness to help us deliver seamless video to our
subscribers. As a Principal Software Engineer, you will get to own
large features, lead the technical direction of our work, and
mentor and provide technical expertise to other engineers. You will
work closely with other technical teams in the application layer
and backend video services to deliver features.This opening is for
a USA-based employee in one of our tech hubs including New York
City, Seattle, Morrisville, NC, San Francisco, and Santa Monica and
Glendale.Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain our Rust and C/C++ player that drives our
streaming experience
- Optimize our player to perform well for resource constrained
platforms
- Create and review architecture and designs for our team's
projects
- Own large and complex features
- Maintain a strong understanding of our code to identify,
research and address issues
- Collaborate with application development teams, services
engineering teams and product management to help understand and
explain device limitations and requirements
- Lead in strategies to ensure the quality and stability of our
deployments, including testing strategies and telemetry
approaches
- Develop our project's build system and continuous integration
system as needed
- Provide technical expertise to developers on our team
- Hold our team accountable to high development standardsBasic
Qualifications
- 10+ years of full software development lifecycle
experience
- Fluent in C/C++ and/or Rust
- Extensive experience in embedded software development
- Extensive experience in video playback technologies
- Experience developing and optimizing multi-threaded
applications
- Experience using build runners / compilation tools for
multi-platform projects
- Strong individual contributor with a drive to learn and
patience to teach others
- Great communication and collaboration skills and a strong
teamwork ethic
- BS or BA in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field or
equivalent experiencePreferred Qualifications
- Rust language expertise
- Experience in Streaming technologies strongly preferred,
including:
- HLS (preferred) or DASH
- DRM technologies like Playready or Widevine
- Adaptive Bitrate Streaming Algorithms
- Caption and subtitle formats such as CEA-608 / 708
- Codecs AVC, HEVC, AAC, EAC3
- Cross-Platform Development
- Embedded operating system experience
- Experience developing for gaming consoles (e.g. Playstation,
Switch), Android devices (e.g. FireTV), or similar devices
- Familiarity with set-top box development and specialized SoCs
from manufacturers like Broadcom, MediaTek, etc.
- Experience implementing advertising technologies, including
VAST, VPAID, etc.
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Keywords: Disneyland Hong Kong, Cary , Principal Software Engineer, IT / Software / Systems , Morrisville, North Carolina
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