Sr Software Engineer
Company: Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology
Location: Santa Monica
Posted on: October 11, 2024
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 Disney's
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 maximize 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 for Disney
Entertainment & ESPN Technology -
- Building the future of Disney's media business: DE&E
Technologists are designing and building the infrastructure that
will power Disney's 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 execute 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. -Lifecycle
Messaging's mission is to create and deliver scaled, customer
centric multi-channel messaging experiences across the customer
journey that drive impact in the form of engagement, revenue
growth, customer delight & brand trust. Our platform, the Unified
Messaging Platform helps us to inform, engage, and delight our
guests. -Responsibilities -
- Design and implement tier-1 microservices in Java and/or Scala.
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- Design core, backend software components for the Unified
Messaging Platform -
- Implement asynchronous processes to run in the cloud for
various data transformation operations. -
- Participate in Agile methodology and SCRUM processes such as
Sprint Planning, Backlog grooming, Daily Standups, and
Retrospectives with the team. -
- Provide on-call support for critical services on a rotational
basis. -
- Own features/functionality and deliver projects end-to-end with
high quality and robust architecture. -
- Lead the design & enhancement of critical services in UMP,
ensuring scalability, performance, and reliability. -
- Research and integrate new technologies into the production
environment to optimize core service offerings. -
- Provide technical guidance to junior team members, covering
code quality, system design, and best practices in software
development. -
- Actively participate in code reviews, offering constructive
feedback to improve code quality, system reliability, and
performance -
- Collaborate with your squad, Product Managers, Designers, QA,
Operations, and other stakeholders to understand requirements and
articulate technical decisions and outcomes. -Basic Qualifications
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- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems,
Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable
field of study, and/or equivalent work experience. -
- Minimum of 5 of years related work experience. -
- Experience and/or certification with Cloud Services -
- Excellent understanding of software development fundamentals
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- Experience with writing unit, integration, and functional tests
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- Experience with standard CI/CD procedures & tools like Jenkins,
GitHub action, spinnaker -
- Proven ability to integrate with service APIs and/or SDKs
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- Experience working in a modern, agile software team with
version control & project management tools (e.g., Git, SVN, Jira,
Basecamp) -Preferred Qualifications -
- Experience in a Java and/or alternative JVM application
development environments (Scala) -
- Knowledge or certification with AWS services, including ECS
(Docker), S3, EC2, Lambda, CloudWatch -
- Experience with big data technologies & tools like Spark,
Databricks, EMR -
- Experience with Terraform or other infrastructure as code
tooling -
- Experience with graph-based data workflows such as Apache
Airflow, Meson -
- Experience building scalable, fault-tolerant, high-uptime
systems -
- Creative and inventive problem solving -
- Experience mentoring other developers -#DISNEYTECH -
The hiring range for this position in Santa Monica, CA is $136,100
to $182,400 per year and in New York, NY and Seattle, WA is
$142,600 to $191,100 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.
Keywords: Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology, Aliso Viejo , Sr Software Engineer, IT / Software / Systems , Santa Monica, California
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