Department/Group Overview:

Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology

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.

Job Summary:

The Content Experience & Delivery team builds systems that provide data at scale to teams across Disney+, Hulu, and Star+. We implement reliable, high-request services that deliver data that helps power streaming user experiences, across web, mobile, and living room devices. We are looking for a software engineer who wants to build and operate these critical services that support all of our users!

We're a fast-paced, dynamic, collaborative and fun team, and looking forward to finding out more about you!

Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:

You'll join a hardworking group of engineers who build and manage systems that publish data to Disney+ and Hulu's internal and edge-facing services - ultimately powering client applications running on smart TVs, smartphones, the web, gaming consoles, FireTV, Apple TV, Roku, and others.

As a Lead Software Engineer, you will collaborate closely with engineers, project managers, and product managers to find the best solution for our viewers. You will drive projects end-to-end: designing the initial solution; finding alignment with stakeholders; execution of the necessary code; and overseeing the deployment of services to production. Members of the team look to your code and documentation as examples of What To Do. You value good-faith collaboration, driving best practices, and promoting excellence on your team. If this sounds like you, we would love to hear from you!

Responsibilities:

• Actively participate in daily stand-ups and other scrum ceremonies.
• Collaborate with team members to design new solutions and drive alignment across partner teams.
• Participate in the breakdown and estimation of tasks.
• Communicate with team members on progress.
• Write code to implement new features or optimize existing services.
• Test code through various means: unit tests, integration tests, performance tests, etc.
• Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation for our tier-1 critical services facing millions of users worldwide.
• Follow industrial best practices for service operations regarding CI/CD, monitoring, and investigation of incidents.
• Perform code reviews for members of the team.

Required Education, Experience/Skills/Training:

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of related experience crafting and operating backend services.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience
• Knowledge of caching technologies.
• Strong grasp of computer science fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, databases, etc).
• Strong understanding of design patterns and principles.
• Knowledge of asynchronous programming.
• Demonstrated knowledge of object-oriented programming patterns.
• Knowledge of source control systems and CI/CD pipelines.
• Knowledge of AGILE/Scrum practices.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated knowledge of crafting and operating large-scale, high-availability backend services.
• Demonstrated knowledge crafting and operating JVM services.
• Experience with messaging technologies (e.g., Kafka, Kinesis, SQS, etc.)
• Experience with functional programming patterns.
• Experience operating within a Public Cloud Provider (e.g., AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)
• Experience with observability tools for metrics, logging, and monitoring (e.g., Datadog, Splunk, Grafana)
• Experience working with remote global teams and a flexible schedule to meet in different time zones.

The hiring range for this position in Seattle, WA is $120,300 - $161,300 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.