Comment by thelittlenag

Comment by thelittlenag 2 days ago

4 replies

View on Hacker News

Disney | Senior Software Engineer | Onsite | Full-time | San Francisco, Santa Monica, Seattle, New York

Disney (Video Player Engineering) is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help us deliver excellent streaming experiences for Hulu, Disney+ and ESPN+ as a developer of our client player. Our team is responsible for playback across several devices including gaming consoles, mobile devices and set top boxes. You will have the opportunity to lead in the design and implementation of our cross-platform C/C++ and Rust player that runs Disney+ and Hulu on these devices.

We’re looking for an experienced C/C++ or Rust engineer who has video player and cross platform development experience. You should have a passion for coding and debugging hard problems, and an eagerness to help us deliver seamless video to our subscribers. Being a Senior member, you will get to own large features, lead the technical direction of our work, and mentor and provide technical expertise to other engineers. You will work closely with other technical teams in the application layer and backend video services to deliver features.

https://www.disneycareers.com/en/job/seattle/sr-software-eng...

Feel free to DM me for more details.

slimscsi 2 days ago

I think you need to look into your hiring portal. I have actually applied to this position (or a position with the exact same description) many months ago. Never heard anything. Which is strange since I have decades of video encoding, video player, c++, and cross platform development experience at both startups and FANG.

Reply View 2 replies
  • saghm 2 days ago

    For what it's worth, I interviewed for a position similar to this at Disney+ a few years ago (unsure if it's the exact same one since it's been so long), and after being given a coding challenge that they agreed I could turn in after a week and an email from someone I was supposed to ask questions to, I didn't get any responses from them whatsoever until less than 24 hours before the supposed turn-in. (Among the questions I asked were clarifications of very basic things like "Am I supposed to be getting 404 errors when trying to query the links returned by the API the instructions say I should be rendering results from, or is there an issue with your backend?" After having spent essentially two full days over the weekend on it, I emailed the night before we had agreed I'd complete the challenge to say that I wasn't interested in continuing with the interview process, and the next day I finally received a response saying something along the lines of "oops, the engineer we said would answer your questions was on vacation, here's the email of a different one".

    Obviously that's just one data point, but I wouldn't be shocked if their hiring portal worked fine and this is just how their recruiting works.

    Reply View 0 replies