Staff Software Engineer- Typescript-Player Team- Bangalore
Staff Software Engineer- Typescript-Player Team- Bangalore
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Welcome to Warner Bros. Discovery the stuff dreams are made of.
Who We Are
When we say the stuff dreams are made of were not just referring to the world of wizards dragons and superheroes or even to the wonders of Planet Earth. Behind WBDs vast portfolio of iconic content and beloved brands are the storytellers bringing our characters to life the creators bringing them to your living rooms and the dreamers creating whats next
From brilliant creatives to technology trailblazers across the globe WBD offers career defining opportunities thoughtfully curated benefits and the tools to explore and grow into your best selves. Here you are supported here you are celebrated here you can thrive.
Staff Software Engineer TypescriptPlayer Team 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:
- 9 to 13years of Experience with webbased media playback technologies and proficiency inJavaScript/TypeScriptis required without reliance on any frameworks.
- 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
How We Get Things Done
This last bit is probably the most important! Here at WBD our guiding principles are the core values by which we operate and are central to how we get things done. You can find them at along with some insights from the team on what they mean and how they show up in their day to day. We hope they resonate with you and look forward to discussing them during your interview.
Championing Inclusion at WBD
Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects a wide array of perspectives backgrounds and experiences. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit regardless of sex gender identity ethnicity age sexual orientation religion or belief marital status pregnancy parenthood disability or any other category protected by law.If youre a qualified candidate with a disability and you require adjustments or accommodations during the job application and/or recruitment process please visit our accessibility page for instructions to submit your request.
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
