Description :
Job Title: Software Development Engineer
Job Category: Software Development
Product: Zune
Date Posted: 07/01/2008
Job Code: 235226
Location: WA - Ridgewood
Travel Required:
Help shape the future of media on the internet! We're a small but growing team delivering on the promise of ad funded internet streaming video, subscription and download to own video, delivering content to clients on the Web, Xbox, Zune, mobile and more. Help create an incredible on demand video experience for millions of consumers around the globe.
Design, build and integrate existing solutions for media asset management and publishing of video, editorial and other content into our service workflow for the overall video pipeline. Wonderful opportunity to be instrumental in shaping Zune and XBox Video into a world class video publishing pipeline.
We are looking for a developer whose responsibilities will include:
* Working with PM and partner teams to improve and evolve our asset management infrastructure to streamline the video ingestion processes.
* Improve existing and implement new publishing tools to increase capacity and throughput of the video workflow.
* Work closely with internal partner teams to provide publishing and editorial tools for the overall Zune content publishing and service infrastructure.
* Investigate existing third party and internal asset management and content publishing tools and make recommendations on adoption, integration and implement as needed.
Qualifications include a minimum of 3+ years (depending on level) of software development experience in C++ and/or C#. Website development using ASP.NET is also required. Experience in C#, XML, XSLT and related technologies required. Bonus: SQL Server experience, and strong familiarity with media formats/technology. A BS/MS degree or equivalent in Computer Science or related technical disciplines is preferred. The applicant should have strong debugging and object-oriented design skills, demonstrated work experience in the full ship cycle of commercial software products, and the ability to effectively communicate in written form.
