Senior Software Engineer-Media Streaming

Technology is at the heart of Disney’s past, present, and future. Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is a global organization of engineers, product developers, designers, technologists, data scientists, and more – all working to build and advance the technological backbone for Disney’s media business globally.

The team marries technology with creativity to build world-class products, enhance storytelling, and drive velocity, innovation, and scalability for our businesses. We are Storytellers and Innovators. Creators and Builders. Entertainers and Engineers. We work with every part of The Walt Disney Company’s media portfolio to advance the technological foundation and consumer media touch points serving millions of people around the world. 

Here are a few reasons why we think you’d love working here:

Building the future of Disney’s media: Our Technologists are designing and building the products and platforms that will power our media, advertising, and distribution businesses for years to come. Reach, Scale & Impact: More than ever, Disney’s technology and products serve as a signature doorway for fans' connections with the company’s brands and stories. Disney+. Hulu. ESPN. ABC. ABC News…and many more. These products and brands – and the unmatched stories, storytellers, and events they carry – matter to millions of people globally.  Innovation: We develop and implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms, and solve complex and distinctive technical problems.

Content Platforms & Operations is responsible for the development and ongoing advancement of the technical and operational functions driving the worldwide distribution and monetization of Disney’s linear networks and theatrical content. This includes Disney’s media supply chain and storage, network and theatrical distribution operations, media localization, network transmission and origination, and more. The global team also plays a critical role as the primary collaboration point for Product & Technology with Disney’s EMEA, APAC, and LATAM regional business teams.

Job Summary:

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will use your skills in coding, DevOps, and data technologies to design, implement, and test scalable solutions that enhance our diverse suite of products and services. Products that help advance Disney’s media supply chain powering some of the most watched entertainment content in the world. You will be an important member of a motivated team that collaborates in a face-paced environment to drive application architecture, code quality, and ensure we are building the right solutions for our users. You will help build and innovate a world class content platform to support content delivery for brands such as Disney+, ESPN+, Hulu, ABC, Marvel and National Geographic.

While The Walt Disney Company is a large enterprise, the ideal candidate has a proven ability to perform multiple roles and adapt to changing priorities quickly. As a valued technical member of this agile team, you will work closely with other Software Engineers, Systems Engineers, Product Owners, Project Management, and other technical and business stakeholders to plan, design, prototype, develop, test, deploy, and support existing and new workflows geared toward a lean, fast-paced media supply chain. You will collaborate across the DEET organization to create POCs (Proof of Concept), drive automation, and create a service-based architecture in the pursuit of reimagining and pushing the traditional boundaries of media services, asset transport, and modern asset management. This is a unique opportunity for a self-motivated software developer with quality organizational and communication skills, who finds fulfillment in seeing their applications and workflows implemented and utilized by end users, integration partners, and coworkers.

Responsibilities:

• Develop, test, & deploy high quality application code
• Provide technical guidance and evangelize best practices
• Contribute and review code, set standards, and work with engineers to ensure product and design specifications are met
• Responsible for fundamental platform performance, scalability, and resiliency
• Partner with stakeholders to refine requirements, and propose solutions to problems that span multiple teams
• Maintain a deep understanding of our core systems and how they interact with upstream and downstream dependencies.
• Mentor junior engineers on the team

Basic Qualifications

• 5 years software engineering experience
• Motivated self-starter with the ability to learn and adapt to new technologies. Can effectively articulate complex ideas and influence others through well-reasoned explanations
• Enjoy working within a team setting of engineers of varying experience
• Strong communication skills and attention to detail
• Comfortable working in a geographically distributed team

Experience with:

• Java
• Spring
• Cloud technologies (AWS EC2, Kinesis, SNS, S3, Lambdas, etc.)
• Common backend technologies (REST APIs, Microservice architectures, async programming)
• Datastore technologies (MongoDB, DynamoDB, Cassandra)
• Build and deployment technologies (Docker, Gitlab-CI, Cloudformation)
• Linux Scripting (Bash)

Required Education  

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Expertise with full lifecycle of application development, including best practices of unit testing, code reviews, documentation, etc...
• Expertise with implementing and supporting high volume web systems or large transaction systems in a highly distributed environment
• Knowledge of performance testing and application profiling
• Digital and media asset management background
• Agile/Scrum development experience
• Strong curiosity about how Disney delivers the Magic and a desire to be a part of it

The hiring range for this position in California and Connecticut is $138,900- $186,200 per year based on a 40 hour work week. The amount of hours scheduled per week may vary based on business needs. 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.