Architect-player - Gurgaon, India - Disney

Disney

Verified Company

Gurgaon, India

1 week ago

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Deepika Kaur

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Description

Architect-Player

Job ID
d6f082a8-71e d9-2ce982b0c4e1

Location
Gurgaon, India / Bengaluru, India / Mumbai, India / Hyderabad, India

Business
Disney+ Hotstar

Date posted
Jun. 08, 2023

Job Summary:

Please note that this job posting is for a potential future opportunity. We recognize the value of building strong networks and pipelines for the future and would like to connect with you to understand your interest and aspirations.

Job Summary - As an Architect, you will help define and architect products, algorithms, and data systems that deeply integrate core software and services to drive innovations. You will obsess over data, metrics, algorithms, mechanisms, and incentives that unlock innovation and scalability opportunities across the company. This role is inherently cross-functional, working with core software systems across the company.

About the team

Business Team:

Customer Experience Team Sub Team:
Player

The Customer Experience(CEX) team builds delightful experiences for our customers to view the amazing content across Disney+ Hotstar. We manage every aspect of the customer journey from signup to showcasing and viewing personalized content.

We build fast and intuitive experiences for every segment of users, ranging from personal viewing on Mobile Phones to building living room experiences for families.

Our experiences are backed by multiple distributed services scaling to serve 150+ million users.

The Player team within Customer Experience plays a pivotal role in ensuring an unparalleled viewing experience for millions of our customers.

This team stands at the vanguard of technological innovation, focused on developing and maintaining our proprietary player across multiple platforms including Android, iOS, TVs, Xbox, PlayStation, and various set-top boxes.

The team expertly navigates complex issues such as device-specific quirks, compatibility with various streaming protocols and DRM, and adaptive bitrate algorithms, and so much more.

Their work is essential to ensure the seamless performance of our player across various devices and network conditions.

Reporting to - Director, CEX

Key Responsibilities:

You will serve as a technical architect for the player team across different clients
You will ensure the quality of architecture and design of systems
You will functionally decompose complex problems into simple, straightforward solutions
You will develop technical roadmaps for the player, outlining future directions and planned technological advancements
You will ensure the high availability and scalability of our player to support millions of concurrent users, designing and implementing strategies as needed
You will analyze and improve data quality and metrics
Fully and completely understand system interdependencies and limitations
You will leverage knowledge of internal and industry in design decisions
You will take ownership of endtoend product quality, from developing to maintaining core player frameworks that power and deliver smooth playback experiences
You will assist in the career development of others, mentoring on advanced technical issues and helping managers guide the career growth of their team members

Skills & Attributes for success:

Minimum 12+ years of experience building large scalable systems
Solid background with handson experience as a Principallevel software development engineer
Expert knowledge of
video playback, streaming protocols (HLS, DASH etc.), DRM, and low latency delivery
Familiarity with Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) such as Akamai, Cloudflare, or AWS CloudFront
Experience with video and audio encoding standards ( H.264, VP9, HEVC, AAC,etc ) and software ( FFmpeg, Bento4 )
Deep expertise on playback with handson experience with popular client media players like
Shaka, Exoplayer and AVFoundation:
In-depth understanding of Quality of Experience (QoE) metrics like start-up time, rebuffering ratio, and average bitrate and strategies for optimizing them
Expert knowledge of specific player / device quirks
Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and designing for performance
Outstanding problemsolving abilities
Ability to achieve stretch goals in a highly innovative and fast paced environment
Sound business judgment, proven ability to influence others and strong analytical thinking skills
Extensive experience of mentoring junior engineers to success
Entrepreneurial spirit and willingness to have fun

About Us

Disney+ Hotstar is India's leading streaming platform that has changed the way Indians watch their entertainment - from their favorite TV shows and movies to sporting extravaganzas.

With the widest range of content in India, Disney+ Hotstar offers more than 100,000 hours of TV Shows and Movies in 18 languages and coverage of major global sporting events.

As a mission-driven organization with a relentless focus on our users,