Department: 61-670 - Broadcast - Player
Location: India - Hyderabad

Description

Why Join DAZN?
Joining DAZN in Hyderabad means being part of a cutting-edge sports streaming company in a vibrant tech hub. You’ll work alongside passionate, talented professionals on innovative projects that reach millions of fans worldwide. Hyderabad offers a agile work environment with a great balance of career growth and lifestyle. If you’re excited about shaping the future of live and on-demand sports entertainment, DAZN Hyderabad is the perfect place to make your mark and grow your career.

Role Summary:
We are seeking a Staff Engineer to lead the technical strategy, architecture, and delivery of our streaming application across a diverse connected-device ecosystem, including Smart TVs, Android TV, Fire TV, set-top boxes (STBs), game consoles, and other living-room platforms.

You will be the technical authority for device porting and playback integration, ensuring the application delivers a consistent, high-quality viewing experience across different hardware capabilities, operating systems,



DRM implementations, and video-player stacks. You will work closely with Player Engineering, Product, Design, QA/SDET, Platform, Analytics, and partner/device manufacturers to scale our device footprint while maintaining performance, reliability, and maintainability.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role, combining deep engineering expertise with cross-functional influence and ownership of complex multi-platform delivery.

The Role & Key Responsibilities

• Define and own the technical strategy for porting and maintaining the streaming application across Smart TVs, Android TV, Fire TV, STBs, and other connected-device platforms.
• Lead the integration and optimisation of video playback functionality across device platforms, including live and on-demand streaming, adaptive bitrate playback, subtitles, audio tracks, DRM, advertising, and error recovery.
• Evaluate new device platform

📌 Staff Engineer (Hyderabad)
🏢 Dazn
📍 Hyderabad