Senior Software Engineer

Job Description

On any given day at Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology, we're reimagining ways to create magical viewing experiences for the world's most beloved stories while also transforming our media business for the future. Whether that's evolving our streaming and digital products in new and immersive ways, powering worldwide advertising and distribution to enhance flexibility and efficiency, or delivering Disney's unmatched entertainment and sports content, every day is a moment to make a difference to partners and to hundreds of millions of people around the world.

A few reasons why we think you'd love working here:
• Building the future of Disney's media: DE&E Technologists are designing and building the infrastructure that will power our media, advertising, and distribution businesses for years to come.
• Reach & Scale: The products and platforms this group builds and operates delight millions of consumers every minute of every day – from Disney+ and Hulu, to ABC News and Entertainment, to ESPN and ESPN+, and much more.
• Innovation: We develop and implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms and enhance how audiences experience sports, entertainment & news.
• The Product & Data Engineering team is responsible for end to end development for Disney's world-class consumer-facing products, including streaming platforms Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+, and digital products & experiences across ESPN, Marvel, Disney Studios, NatGeo, and ABC News. The team drives innovation at scale for millions of consumers around the world across Apple, Android, Smart TVs, game consoles, and the web, with our platforms powering core experiences like personalization, search, messaging and data.

Responsibilities:
• Design core, backend software components for the Image Service Platform
• Collaborate with other Image Service engineers and external engineering teams to evaluate and design appropriate solutions to effectively meet Product requirements
• Build and run code in AWS using Terraform, K8s, Spinnaker, and other CI/CD tools
• Evaluate new or existing technologies and products for implementation, considering costs, usability, compatibility and scalability
• Create user documentation and runbooks for reference and reporting purposes
• Use a mix of technologies including Scala, Java, Python, Kafka, Kinesis,
• DynamoDB, MySQL and an array of AWS native services
• Collaborate with other team members (including product owners, TPMs, and other collaborators) to achieve product and business requirements
• Conduct design and code reviews
• Analyze and improve efficiency, scalability, and stability of various system resources

Basic Qualifications:
• 5 + years of shown experience building internet-scale API or services applications
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering
• Experience in a Scala and alternative JVM application development environments (Java/Kotlin)
• Familiarity with the AWS environment, including ECS (Docker), S3, EC2, Lambda, CloudWatch
• Familiarity with infrastructure as code such as Terraform, CloudFormation
• Understanding of software development fundamentals
• Familiarity with writing unit, integration and functional tests
• Familiarity integrating with service APIs and/or SDKs
• Understanding of agile processes software team with version control & project management tools (e.g. Github, SVN, Jira, Basecamp)
• Creative and inventive problem solving
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, and a team-focused approach towards software development.

Preferred Qualifications:
• Experience in Java, Python
• Knowledge of these database solutions, DynamoDB, MySQL/Aurora, Redis Elasticache, MongoDB, Cassandra
• Experience building scalable, fault-tolerant, high-uptime systems

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The hiring range for this position in San Francisco is $149,000 to $199,800 per year, in Seattle is $142,600 to $191,100 per year and in Santa Monica is $136,000 to $182,400 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate's geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.

About Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology:

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Technology (DE&E Technology) provides the technological backbone and product development for Disney's two media business units, while helping to keep the company at the vanguard of innovation – enabling the Company to continuously leverage technology to enhance storytelling and creativity, while delivering scalability, flexibility, and efficiency for its businesses.

This position is with Disney Streaming Technology LLC, which is part of a business we call Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology.

Disney Streaming Technology LLC is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status or any other basis prohibited by federal, state or local law. Disney fosters a business culture where ideas and decisions from all people help us grow, innovate, create the best stories and be relevant in a rapidly changing world.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-d8nzzx-18-218-129-100-42 in your application.