Staff Software Engineer- Global Media Engine- Bangalore

Staff Software Engineer Global Media Engine Bangalore

About Warner Bros. Discovery:

Warner Bros. Discovery a premier global media and entertainment company offers audiences the worlds most differentiated and complete portfolio of content brands and franchises across television film streaming and gaming. The new company combines Warner Medias premium entertainment sports and news assets with Warner Bros Discoverys leading nonfiction and international entertainment and sports businesses.

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Warner Bros. Discovery is seeking an exceptional Staff Software Developer to join our Global Media Engine teams critical video streaming technology initiatives. In this pivotal role youll be responsible for architecting and implementing cuttingedge clientside video technologies that power our flagship streaming platform Max. Your expertise will drive the entire video delivery ecosystemfrom initial network transmission to final user playbackencompassing sophisticated tasks like video profile optimization digital rights management rendering techniques advanced telemetry and dynamic stream optimization.

Youll work closely with crossfunctional teams to design and develop media engine components that interface seamlessly with lowlevel platform systems ensuring an unparalleled streaming experience for millions of global users. This is an opportunity to join an innovative team where youll have direct impact on the technical strategies that define nextgeneration video streaming with extensive opportunities to expand your technical skills and own missioncritical features of a worldclass entertainment platform.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Join a growing team with many opportunities for you to expand your professional and technical skills

• Drive the technical vision and own critical platformdefining features used by millions of customers

• Lead crossteam and crossdisciplinary initiatives to explore groundbreaking technical solutions

• Evaluate complex technical tradeoffs using advanced streaming media technologies

• Improve your teams development test and operations practices.

• Mentor other engineers to help them grow their careers.

• Use data to solve real world problems and improve customer experience including prioritization of incoming issues reported by customers partners and internal QA

What to Bring:

• A deep understanding of Computer Science fundamentals including algorithms data structures and operating systems

• Mastery of webbased media playback technologies including Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) and Media Source Extensions (MSE)

• Deep experience with media technology (e.g. ExoPlayer AVFoundation HTML5 video)

• Comprehensive understanding of streaming technologies (e.g. DASH HLS)

• Expertise in DRM systems (e.g. FairPlay Widevine PlayReady)

• Proficiency across device platforms (e.g. Android iOS tvOS settop box)

• Advanced video telemetry skills

• Be a selfstarter that can independently solve complex engineering problems

• Experience with streaming video delivery or playback

• Passion for software engineering with a strong sense of ownership for the code that you and your team write and a desire to become an expert in clientside video technology

• Seek selfimprovement and adapt to suggestions and feedback

• Hold yourself and your team to high standards while maintaining respectful relationships

• Ability to provide periodic oncall support for critical emergent customerfacing issues

• BS degree in Computer Science or a related field with 8 years of relevant experience

The Nice to Have:

• 5 years in software engineering on shipped consumer products or platforms

• Advanced research or contributions to emerging video streaming technologies

• Experience with cuttingedge media delivery platforms

• Contributions to opensource media technology projects.

What We Offer:

• A Great Place to work
• Equal opportunity employer
• Fast track growth opportunities