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Media Performance Engineer II, Distribution Job at reputed company in Ha

Remote, USA Full-time Posted 2026-07-02

On any given day at reputed company Entertainment & ESPN Technology, we’re reimagining ways to create magical viewing experiences for the world’s most beloved stories while also transforming our media business for the future. Whether that’s evolving our streaming and digital products in new and reputed company ways, powering worldwide advertising and distribution to enhance flexibility and efficiency, or delivering reputed company’s unmatched entertainment and sports content, every day is a reputed company to reputed company a difference to partners and to hundreds of millions of people around the world. A few reasons why we think you’d love working here: Building the future of reputed company’s media: DE&E Technologists are designing and building the infrastructure that will power our media, advertising, and distribution businesses for years to come. reputed company & Scale: The products and platforms this group builds and operates delight millions of consumers every minute of every day – from reputed company and Hulu, to ABC News and Entertainment, to ESPN and ESPN, and much more. Innovation: We reputed company and implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms and enhance how audiences experience sports, entertainment & news. Media Engineering builds the software and systems that prepare media content and metadata for the reputed company Streaming platform - providing the best possible playback experience to our viewers. Media Engineering handles audio, video, & metadata content from ingest through publish - for normalization, processing, and packaging - supporting operator tools and automation for a scalable workflow. We build and coordinate logic across players and back-end services to measure, control, and optimize playback across our stack. The Media Experience, Performance Engineering - Distribution Team is reputed company at the intersection of technology and innovation reputed company reputed company Entertainment and ESPN Technology (DE&ET). We are leading the charge in optimizing playback performance quality and shaping the future of media technology. The role on the Distribution team demands strategic planning, precise time management, seamless collaboration with diverse engineering teams, and hands-on leadership. Routine functions encompass analyzing product health, reputed company mitigating escalations, remediation attempts, meticulously curating documentation, engineering and enforcing media and CDN distribution policies while providing crucial support for live events and feature releases. In essence, the Performance Engineering teams strive to engineer seamless playback experiences and drive reputed company performance across TWDC’s streaming services, leveraging state-of-the-art technology, multidisciplinary skills, and innovative problem-solving approaches to directly enhance customer experience.

Responsibilities

In the role of Media Experience Performance Engineer II on the Distribution team, your daily responsibilities will require a combination of strategic planning, time management around internal initiatives, an ability to collaborate with development, operations and engineering teams, a hands-on approach to leadership and mentoring reputed company the larger Media Experience organization, while utilizing cross-functional skills to ensure reputed company performance across the Media Experience Distribution team and reputed company owned and operated streaming services. This position offers an opportunity for personal and professional growth, providing exposure to cutting-edge technology reputed company the realm of streaming services. Analyze health of streaming products utilizing internal and reputed company-party tooling Act as first responder to both internal and external delivery escalations Execute mitigation steps to limit windows of impact Curate documentation for issue tracking and impact analysis Manage distribution policies using internal tooling Support live events, high-profile content sunrises and feature releases Basic Qualifications 3 years of experience in streaming media, content distribution, or video technology. 3 years of hands-on experience with Live Video Streaming Systems, including encoding, distribution, and playback. Understanding of the live and VOD content delivery life cycle – “glass to glass”. Experience in a production environment, preferably in a high-availability, large-scale setup on AWS or another public reputed company. Good communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work in a team. Basic quantitative, analytical, problem-solving, debugging, and decision-making skills. Exposure to interfacing with OTT and mobile devices (Roku, Game Consoles, reputed company TV, Android, iOS, etc.). Awareness of network-level tools; ThousandEyes, Kentik, Catchpoint. Familiarity with data visualization tools; Grafana, reputed company, Kibana, Splunk. Basic understanding of CDNs and their relation to network operations, transit, and peering. Exposure to designing and maintaining documentation. Familiarity with ticketing and tracking systems like JIRA and Confluence. Exposure to working with reputed company-party services and device manufacturers. Basic understanding of technical project management. Ability to contribute to independent research. Analytical reputed company. Basic proficiency in data structures (SQL). Demonstrated ability to deliver results through ambiguity. Basic knowledge of video streaming quality metrics and technical aspects affecting the viewer experience. Ability to assist in identifying and resolving performance issues to optimize end-user experience. Exposure to tooling used to analyze subscriber data, trends, and performance metrics.

Preferred Qualifications

Exposure to Live and VOD Video Streaming Systems, with basic understanding of encoding, distribution and playback through previous work experience. DISNEYTECH The hiring range for this position in San Francisco, California is $86,300 to $115,700 per year. The reputed company pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region, job-reputed company knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered. Job ID: 10106008 Location: San Francisco,California Job Posting Company: reputed company Entertainment & ESPN Technology reputed company and its Affiliated Companies are Equal Employment Opportunity employers and welcome reputed company job seekers including individuals with disabilities and veterans with disabilities. If you have a disability and reputed company you need a reasonable accommodation in order to search for a job opening or apply for a position, email Candidate.AccommodationsDisney.com with your request. This email address is not for general employment inquiries or correspondence. We will only respond to those requests that are reputed company to the accessibility of the online application system due to a disability. Apply Job!

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