Sr Video Streaming Engineer (Android)

Our global solutions team is seeking a Senior Android Video Streaming Engineer to build and enhance large-scale Android streaming experiences used by millions of users. This role combines advanced Android and video-player engineering with analytics implementation, SDK integration, and approved AI-assisted development using Kotlin, Java, Media3, and ExoPlayer. The engineer will translate analytics requirements into production code, connect playback and user experiences to structured event data, and create reusable instrumentation and validation patterns across Android devices. This position requires strong ownership of streaming telemetry, player performance, testing, documentation, and cross-functional delivery in a fully remote U.S. environment.

Location & Work Type

Location: Remote, United States
Work Type: Remote

Key Responsibilities

Develop production-quality Android applications and video player integrations using Kotlin and Java.

Integrate Adobe Edge Software Development Kits (SDKs) across Android applications, shared components, and video player SDKs.

Translate Experience Data Model (XDM), event, payload, and sequencing requirements into maintainable Android code.

Implement analytics across user journeys and streaming experiences, including playback, advertising, quality, performance, buffering, latency, and errors.

Integrate instrumentation with Media3, ExoPlayer, RESTful APIs, telemetry services, and analytics endpoints.

Build reusable event models, payload structures, validation utilities, conformance tests, and automated test coverage.

Validate analytics events, payload accuracy, contextual data, sequencing, and delivery across supported Android devices.

Use approved AI-assisted engineering tools for repository analysis, development, pull requests, testing, code review support, documentation, and troubleshooting.

Diagnose and resolve Adobe Edge, XDM, player, event-mapping, and analytics integration issues.

Perform unit, integration, regression, conformance, and physical-device testing.

Contribute to Git workflows, code reviews, CI/CD pipelines, release readiness, and technical documentation.

Collaborate with video platform, analytics, product, privacy, QA, and engineering teams while supporting knowledge transfer and long-term maintainability.

Qualifications

Required:

5+ years of professional Android development experience.

Strong proficiency in Kotlin with professional experience using Java.

Hands-on experience with Media3 and/or ExoPlayer.

Strong experience with video streaming applications, playback systems, or player SDKs.

Understanding of playback states, advertising, quality, performance, buffering, latency, and error telemetry.

Experience integrating analytics, telemetry, or third-party SDKs into Android applications.

Experience with structured event schemas, payload mappings, event contracts, and sequencing.

Strong knowledge of Android architecture, application lifecycle, concurrency, networking, and asynchronous programming.

Familiarity with Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH) and HTTP Live Streaming (HLS).

Strong understanding of RESTful APIs and client-side integrations.

Experience with automated testing, device testing, debugging, and performance validation.

Proficiency with Git, pull requests, code reviews, and CI/CD pipelines.

Strong analytical, communication, documentation, and problem-solving skills.

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent professional experience.