About the role

  • Director of Core Player Engineering overseeing strategic direction for media player systems at Disney. Leading a team to innovate and enhance media playback across various devices and platforms.

Responsibilities

  • Provide vision and strategic direction for Core Player Engineering
  • Accomplish business objectives including feature changes in players
  • Manage and develop senior managers and technical leads
  • Champion observability and reliability improvements
  • Ensure playback systems support both live and on-demand streaming
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with backend streaming infrastructure
  • Recruit and retain world-class engineers and leaders

Requirements

  • Minimum of 12 years of related work experience
  • Driving architecture excellence across C++, Rust, Kotlin, and JavaScript ecosystems
  • Expertise in HLS, DASH, CMAF
  • Leading large, distributed engineering organizations in media playback
  • Strong executive presence
  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Benefits

  • Full range of medical benefits
  • Bonuses
  • Long-term incentive units

Job title

Director – Core Player Engineering

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

$239,700 - $321,400 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

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