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In this role, you will work across the entire player client stack including developing player UX interfaces, managing streaming media download, Digital Rights management, enabling support for advanced media formats (such as AV1 HDR10+, DV8.1) and optimizing QoE to enable best in class streaming experience across SVOD, Live, Ads, and cloud game streaming.\nAbout the Role\nDesign, build, and ship playback foundational capabilities across both TV and the Web Player clients, leveraging TypeScript, Node.js and C++.\nDevelop new features to expand our Live and Ads product initiatives, enabling innovative and differentiating playback experiences to delight our members and deliver on product priorities.\nDesign and run A/B experiments to test hypotheses about new features, media encodes, player behavior, and streaming algorithms, then analyze the results and use them to decide what ships.\nImprove playback quality of experience (QoE) metrics such as play startup time, rebuffering, and error rates. 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