Media Streaming Engineer

Department/Group Overview:

Technology is at the heart of Disney’s past, present, and future. Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is a global organization of engineers, product developers, designers, technologists, data scientists, and more – all working to build and advance the technological backbone for Disney’s media business globally.

The team marries technology with creativity to build world-class products, enhance storytelling, and drive velocity, innovation, and scalability for our businesses.

We are Storytellers and Innovators. Creators and Builders. Entertainers and Engineers. We work with every part of The Walt Disney Company’s media portfolio to advance the technological foundation and consumer media touch points serving millions of people around the world.

Here are a few reasons why we think you’d love working here:

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Building the future of Disney’s media: Our Technologists are designing and building the products and platforms that will power our media, advertising, and distribution businesses for years to come.

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Reach, Scale & Impact: More than ever, Disney’s technology and products serve as a signature doorway for fans' connections with the company’s brands and stories. Disney+. Hulu. ESPN. ABC. ABC News…and many more. These products and brands – and the unmatched stories, storytellers, and events they carry – matter to millions of people globally.

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Innovation: We develop and implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms, and solve complex and distinctive technical problems.

Content Platforms & Operations is responsible for the development and ongoing advancement of the technical and operational functions driving the worldwide distribution and monetization of Disney’s linear networks and theatrical content. This includes Disney’s media supply chain and storage, network and theatrical distribution operations, media localization, network transmission and origination, and more. The global team also plays a critical role as the primary collaboration point for Product & Technology with Disney’s EMEA, APAC, and LATAM regional business teams.

The Media Streaming Engineer will work to ensure that our team is working to bring in generative AI solutions to our expanded workflows. This role demands a meticulous eye for detail, strong technical knowledge of video/audio standards, and expertise in next generation AI technology to help transform our current team and workflows. In addition, the candidate will help to implement automation and Ai into complex media review and publishing workflows under tight deadlines and collaborate with internal teams and external partners.

This is an ideal role for someone with a post-production technology background and the passion to bridge human workflows with AI automation. You’ll work with product, production, post-production and internal distribution operations teams to build, protype and design innovative and next gen workflows. The ideal candidate will want to continue to innovate and better the existing workflows, as we explore acceleration and optimization of our media asset and delivery processes.

• Design, test, and deploy AI automation and multi-agent workflows that reduce manual effort and optimize production, mastering, and distribution processes.
• Identify opportunities to introduce new automation and AI-powered solutions tailored to distribution-operations needs, including:
  • Asset validation
  • Quality control
  • Data ingestion
  • Metadata tagging
  • File transfer, acceleration, and end-to-end tracking
• Architect and maintain multi-agent systems that manage data I/O and asset movement across geographically distributed locations, ensuring file integrity, security, and operational reliability.
• Develop workflows that maintain seamless inter-site transfers, monitor asset health, and automatically remediate transfer failures or inconsistencies.
• Design scalable cloud-based workflows and environments for media prep, post production operators to eliminate on prem downloads and accelerate content handling.
• Integrate and operationalize solutions from external partners such as AWS, Lucidlink and other cloud or…