Engineering Manager – Video

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Disney+ Hotstar is leading the way as the largest and smartest video platform in the country, reaching over 300 million users today. We have set a number of world records along the way - including for the highest concurrent viewership at 25.3 million during the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019. Disney+ Hotstar today is the one-stop destination for all your entertainment needs - from Live Sports, Indian and International Shows and Movies to all Disney content, including Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, National Geographic and Disney+ Originals. We’re looking for the brightest minds to build the future of TV with us

About the Team 

We are striving to create the best Video content destination for our consumers on a varied set of devices, from phones to tablets, including devices coming out with bleeding edge technology.  The engineering team at Hotstar is at the centre of the action and is responsible for creating unmatched user experience. Our engineers solve real life complex problems and create compelling experiences for our customers.

The pace of our growth is incredible – if you want to tackle hard and interesting problems at scale, and create an impact within an entrepreneurial environment, join us!

Your Key Leadership Responsibilities

  • Team Leadership: build and lead a team of exceptional engineers adept at building distributed micro services 
  • Technical Vision: evaluate architecture choices on an ongoing basis, in anticipation of increased scale and ever-evolving technology to meet the demands of a rapidly growing business.
  • Leverage technical skills to successfully drive infrastructure & tool improvements for new products and existing processes and workflows
  • Product Leadership: define and execute the road map by collaborating with partners in Product, Design and Operations.
  • More specifically

  • Design and develop resilient video processing workflows 
  • Design and develop highly scalable services for video transcoding and packaging.
  • Develop and maintain video and image encoding software that plug into the Hotstar media pipeline, designing for quality, robustness and scale.
  • Participate in work related to next-generation video systems and encoding technologies
  • Good to have

  • Experience in working with Kubernetes, Airflow, Celery 
  • Experience  in working with open-source projects for video packaging and streaming, such as GPAC (MP4Box) or GStreamer, Shaka Packager
  • Experience  in working with open-source multimedia projects such as FFmpeg, x264, avisynth, or WebM.
  • Background in image and signal processing, both algorithm design and implementation (for example, image scaling, deinterlacing, frame rate conversion, artifact detection).
  • Experience with image and video quality assessment
  • What to Bring

  • You have experience building and leading a team of exceptional engineers
  • You have good ideas and can inspire the team to come up with better ideas.
  • You are able to work through ambiguous requirements and make decisions to push forward. 
  • You have passion for building highly scalable solutions with flexibility factored in to make quick pivots as business evolves.
  • You have a good grasp of technologies such as Java and distributed/cloud development.
  • You demonstrate excellent communication skills, both within the team, and across the organization. 
  • You have 5+ years of experience growing and managing software development teams in fast-paced environments and 10+ years of software development experience.
  • To learn more about our team ,check out the following blogs

    Our Values
    - We are customer obsessed
    - We are audacious in vision and action
    - We encourage honesty and open dialogue
    - We respect everyone and every point of view
    - We make objective and data-driven decisions
    - We believe trust and accountability go hand-in-hand
    - We invest in each other's growth
    - We bring our A-game and nothing else
    - We take charge and get it done

    The Perks
    - The glory. Almost too much responsibility. 
    - No dress code. Unlimited leave.
    - A fun-life balance. 
    - A ticket on our rocket ship to the moon.  🚀

    Who we are as an employer
    We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable law.

    Who we are as a company 
    We’re Disney+ Hotstar. The go-to destination for over 300 million users for everything from Live Sports, Indian and International Shows and Movies to all Disney content, including Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, National Geographic and Disney+ originals. Our mission is to revolutionize internet entertainment through smart personalization, and by building a global video platform that takes over the world wide web and the whole wide world. 

    To learn more about our team, check out the following blogs : https://tech.hotstar.com/