Software Developer

Job Description

Hulu is a premium streaming service that offers premium originals, current season TV, a massive library of hit series and movies, and live television. Disney+ is the Disney-branded streaming service featuring an outstanding collection of content from its brands and franchises recognized and respected all over the world including Star Wars, Marvel, Pixar, Disney, and NatGeo. 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 Live Pipeline (Video) team is responsible for ensuring that Hulu's customers have a reliable Live TV experience and are able to enjoy live events in high quality and with high availability. The team has ownership for the different renditions of video - everything from mobile to TV. They are responsible for the packaging of content, both DRM and protocol delivery formats – delivering video to an iOS device is much different than delivering video to an XBOX One. The team is responsible for end-to-end quality for video delivery. We deal with a wide variety of channels, each with their own quirks, and have to build systems to keep the streams flowing 24/7, despite these complexities. We are looking for a talented Software Developer to help us build the most sophisticated, reliable video delivery engine in the industry.

WHAT YOU'LL DO
• Drive the live digital video delivery pipeline for Hulu's premium online video service
• Design tools to support operations of a 24/7 live service
• Sweat every millisecond of latency
• Dream of the next big thing in video streaming

WHAT TO BRING
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience
• Minimum 4 years of software development experience using Go
• Experience building scalable, fault-tolerant, high-uptime systems
• Creative and resourceful problem solving, not taking 'that's just the way it is' for an answer

NICE-TO-HAVES
• Experience working with large scale content delivery
• Deep understanding and passion for all aspects of video encoding and playback
• 2 years of software development experience using Python

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-d91po4-13-58-82-79-42 in your application.