Senior Scala Engineer

Job Description

We want everybody to have a magical Disney experience. For our streaming services, that means scalability and reliability is the primary focus in everything we build.
Our team within Disney builds services to measure the Customer Experience for Video Playback, in realtime. This means taking high throughput streaming event data generated by our client applications, and creating a user experience to support our analysts who generate insights into the underlying quality of the streaming experience, driving improvement. It requires us to make technical tradeoffs between what we can achieve with the data we can gather, and the requirements from our internal users on a regular basis.

We have the autonomy to choose the technologies and processes that help us achieve our objectives. Our primary development language is Scala with a mix of technologies from data processing / streaming like Kinesis, Apache Spark and Flink, through to application technologies like PostgresSQL, Redis, Dynamodb, and Timestream all deployed and hosted on AWS.

Responsibilities

You will:
• Have an influence on the design of your team's services
• Implement and test those services
• Deploy and support those services
• Have an influence on the working processes used by your team
• Be a mentor and an example to others in your team and across the organisation.

The team, collectively, requires the following core skills. We are interested in candidates with strong experience in a few areas, or some experience in most areas:
• Scala (particularly functional programming stacks such as scalaz, cats-effect and zio)
• Middle tier / web services
• Monitoring and optimising applications written for the Java Virtual Machine
• Postgres or any other SQL databases, optimising query performance
• Kinesis or any other streaming data
• Designing / building / operating distributed systems with failover strategies
• Statistical analysis of data

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