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 dynamic 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 current device platforms, operating systems, SDKs, player technologies, and manufacturer requirements; provide technical recommendations and delivery estimates.




- Partner with Player Engineering to resolve complex playback issues across different device hardware, operating systems, network environments, and DRM implementations.
- Drive performance optimisation for low-memory, low-powered, and legacy devices, including application start-up time, navigation responsiveness, video start time, memory usage, and crash rates.
- Work closely with SDET and QA teams to establish device test strategies, automation approaches, certification readiness, and release-quality gates.
- Collaborate with external platform partners, device manufacturers, and certification bodies to meet technical, compliance, and release requirements.
- Mentor engineers, provide technical direction and code/design reviews, and raise engineering standards across the Device Engineering team.

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

Required Qualifications:

- 8+ years of Software Engineering experience, preferably in Media Streaming or OTT platforms.
- Demonstrable experience building, porting, or maintaining consumer applications across multiple connected-TV or device platforms.
- Strong experience with relevant technologies JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML5, React.js
- Deep understanding of OTT video streaming and playback technologies, including HLS, MPEG-DASH, adaptive bitrate streaming, manifests, codecs, captions/subtitles, and multi-audio support.
- Strong practical knowledge of DRM technologies, including Widevine, PlayReady, FairPlay, and device/platform-specific DRM constraints.
- Experience with connected-device ecosystems such as Samsung Tizen, LG webOS, Android TV/Google TV, Amazon Fire TV, Roku, Apple TV, Chromecast, STBs, or game consoles.




- Strong understanding of device constraints, including hardware variation, CPU/GPU limitations, memory management, remote-control navigation, network variability, and operating-system fragmentation.
Strong debugging and problem-solving capability, including diagnosing complex production issues using logs, telemetry, crash reports, and playback/QoE analytics.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical decisions to engineering, product, operational, and external partner stakeholders.

About DAZN

At DAZN, we bring ambition to life. We are innovators, game-changers and pioneers. So, if you want to push boundaries and make an impact, DAZN is the place to be.

As part of our team, you'll have the opportunity to make your mark and the power to make change happen. We're doing things no-one has done before, giving fans and customers access to sport anytime, anywhere. We're using world-class technology to transform sports and revolutionise the industry and we're not going to stop.

DAZN VALUES – THE ‘HOW’ IN WHAT WE DO:

Agility and creativity fuel growth and innovation, to Make It Happen.

Prioritising what matters drives progress and positive outcomes, Focusing On Impact.

Collective ambition builds optimism and success, in order to Win As One.

At DAZN, we are committed to fostering an inclusive environment that values equality and diversity, where everyone can contribute and have their voices heard. This means hiring and developing talent across all races, ethnicities, religions, age groups, sexual orientations, gender identities and abilities.

If you’d like to include a cover letter with your application, please feel free to. Please do not feel you need to apply with a photo or disclose any other information that is not related to your professional experience.

Our aim is to make our hiring processes as accessible for everyone as possible, including providing adjustments for interviews where we can.

We look forward to hearing from you.

📌 Staff Engineer (HDevices) (Hyderabad)
🏢 Dazn
📍 Hyderabad