(ind) Senior, Software Engineer

Walmart Walmart · Retail · Bangalore, KA, India

Senior Software Engineer role focused on developing middleware, media, and application development kits for a TV platform. Responsibilities include contributing to product requirements, design, architecture, prototyping, and developing core components. The role also involves creating tools for quality measurement and defect detection, and understanding the media stack architecture. Requires strong C/C++, JavaScript, JSON skills, and experience with media pipeline stacks, video streaming technologies, DRM, and multimedia frameworks.

What you'd actually do

  1. Contribute to Review product requirements and create technical requirements.
  2. Contribute to Design and architect new products, understand and improving existing software.
  3. Create prototype, design documents and technical tasks, suggest implementation plan.
  4. Develop core components, code review to ensure implemented as per the design.
  5. Develop tools to measure the quality of products and finding defects automatically.

Skills

Required

  • 8+ years of experience in architecture & design, prototyping, software development & implementation plan, code review and unit testing for consumer electronic devices.
  • Bachelors degree or higher in Computer Science, Electronics or equivalent field.
  • Proficient in C, C++/C++11, JavaScript, JSON.
  • Experience in developing media pipeline stacks.
  • Experience in the video streaming technologies (DASH, HLS, Progressive Download, etc).
  • Experience in Digital Rights Management (Widevine/Playready/FairPlay) and Secure Media Pipeline
  • Knowledge on audio/video formats (H264, HEVC, mp4, CMAF, MPEG2-TS, HDR, Dolby Vision, etc)
  • Experience in Media frameworks such as Gstreamer, FFMPEG
  • Experience in multi-threaded programming & Inter-process communication.
  • Good communication and problem-solving skills.
  • Self-motivated, Proactive and good team player.
  • Multi-threading, Cmake build system, Cross compilation, Linux understanding (process, filesystem, permission, memory), Linux shared library analysis, Linux IPC/message queues, Parse & analyze journald logs, Debug core dump files, Troubleshooting.
  • Boost ASIO, Linux boot-up, Linux interprocess communication, Linux Services/Daemon, Socket Programming, OOAD (Object-Oriented Analysis and Design), C++ 14 & 17 features (std::optional, std::async etc.)
  • Adaptive media streaming client-side integration, Media playback, Multimedia frameworks - Gstreamer, ffmpeg, Wayland / directfb, Apple airplay media content delivery to player, Used PlayReady DRM 4.x
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams, Effective communication, Convey ideas clearly in short-time.

Nice to have

  • Websockets, REST API, SnapCraft, Docker, Conan pkg manager, Github actions, Cmake, make, meson build system, Unit test frameworks - Catch2, GoogleTest, BDD test framework, Rust, Python, Jira, Shell scripting
  • Basic understanding on cryptography, Basic network TCP/UDP packet filtering & analysis