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Warner Bros. Discovery

Staff Software Engineer- Global Media Engine

5-10 Years

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  • Posted 3 months ago

Job Description

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, platform-defining features used by millions of customers
  • Lead cross-team and cross-disciplinary initiatives to explore groundbreaking technical solutions
  • Evaluate complex technical tradeoffs using advanced streaming media technologies
  • Improve your team's 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 web-based 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, set-top box)
  • Advanced video telemetry skills
  • Be a self-starter 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 client-side video technology
  • Seek self-improvement and adapt to suggestions and feedback
  • Hold yourself and your team to high standards while maintaining respectful relationships
  • Ability to provide periodic on-call support for critical emergent customer-facing 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 cutting-edge media delivery platforms
  • Contributions to open-source media technology projects.

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Job ID: 111323803