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Senior Software Engineer - Video Infra @ Hotstar

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 Senior Software Engineer - Video Infra

Job Description

1. Engineering Video
Full time
About the Role
At Hotstar, we have 300 million users and capture close to a billion click stream messages daily. 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.
We are building better ad targeting capabilities. We are looking for engineers who have demonstrated excellence in terms of both delivery and scalability.
In this role, you will form part of a team that will build advertising infrastructure. You will work closely with our product team to build new and compelling ad 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 Responsibilities
  • Design and develop highly scalable services for video systems 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.
  • Experience with setting up (micro)services for video coding, processing or packaging.
  • Experience with large - scale distributed systems and cloud computing
  • Experience with software performance optimization
  • Involvement in open - source projects for video packaging and streaming, such as GPAC (MP4Box) or GStreamer.
  • Involvement in 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
  • 3+ years experience in multimedia software development, with excellent debugging and problem solving skills.
  • BS in Computer Science/Electrical Engineering or equivalent. MS or PhD a plus.
  • Expert in C++ or Java and object - oriented programming.
  • Working experience with video systems and/or streaming specifications, such as ISO/IEC 13818 - 1 (MPEG Transport and Program Streams), ISO/IEC 14496 - 12 (ISO base media file format), Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (MPEG - DASH), or Common Media Application Format (CMAF).

Job Classification

Industry: Media, Entertainment, Internet
Functional Area: IT Software - Application Programming, Maintenance,
Role Category: Programming & Design
Role: Programming & Design
Employement Type: Full time

Education

Under Graduation: Any Graduate in Any Specialization
Post Graduation: Post Graduation Not Required
Doctorate: Any Doctorate in Any Specialization, Doctorate Not Required

Contact Details:

Company: hotstar
Location(s): Mumbai

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Keyskills:   Computer science Cloud computing Coding Debugging Packaging Signal processing HTTP Open source Distribution system Object oriented programming

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