Lead Software Engineer

Job ID 10106525 Location Santa Monica, California, United States / Glendale, California, United States / Seattle, Washington, United States Business Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology Date posted Nov. 27, 2024

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Job Summary:

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.

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!

What You’ll Do

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:

Expertly break down work at the epic level, setting project milestones with reasonable deadlines.
Design new solutions and drive alignment across engineering and product teams.
Prioritize work within a project to deliver on the most necessary or urgent requirements.
Write code to implement new features or optimize existing services.
Effectively communicate with stakeholders on project progress.
Anticipate and mitigate risk on projects.
Determine the most efficient means to sufficiently test new code: 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.
Use logs, monitoring tools, and work with developers to determine root causes across distributed components.
Set best practices for the team for on-call responsibilities such as deployments, monitoring, and investigating incidents
Perform code reviews for members of the team, bearing a sense of responsibility for approved code.
Coach and mentor teammates in an open, respectful, flexible, empathetic manner. Help onboard new team members.
Actively participate in daily stand-ups and other scrum ceremonies.

What You’ll Bring

Basic Qualifications:

Minimum of 7+ years of related experience crafting and operating backend services.
1+ years of experience crafting and operating large-scale, high-availability backend services.
1+ years of related experience utilizing caching technologies.
1+ years experience operating within a Public Cloud Provider (e.g., AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)
Demonstrated knowledge crafting and operating JVM services.
Proven track record of designing and driving consensus on backend architectures.
Demonstrated knowledge of asynchronous programming.
Demonstrated knowledge of object-oriented programming patterns.
Demonstrated knowledge of functional programming patterns.
Demonstrated knowledge of source control systems and CI/CD pipelines.
Experience with observability tools for metrics, logging, and monitoring (e.g., Datadog, Splunk, Grafana)
Demonstrated knowledge of AGILE/Scrum practices.

Preferred Qualifications

Skilled at work breakdown and task estimation.
Strong communication skills and a desire to share your knowledge with team members and others across Disney Streaming.

Demonstrated knowledge of messaging technologies (e.g., Kafka, Kinesis, SQS, etc.)
Experience working with remote global teams and a flexible schedule to meet in different time zones.

Required Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience

#DISNEYTECH

The hiring range for this position in Glendale, CA and Santa Monica, CA is $152,200.00 to $204,100.00 per year and in Seattle, WA is $159,500.00 to $213,900.00 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.

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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.

About The Walt Disney Company:

The Walt Disney Company, together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading diversified international family entertainment and media enterprise that includes three core business segments: Disney Entertainment, ESPN, and Disney Experiences. From humble beginnings as a cartoon studio in the 1920s to its preeminent name in the entertainment industry today, Disney proudly continues its legacy of creating world-class stories and experiences for every member of the family. Disney’s stories, characters and experiences reach consumers and guests from every corner of the globe. With operations in more than 40 countries, our employees and cast members work together to create entertainment experiences that are both universally and locally cherished.

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, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, military or veteran status, medical condition, genetic information or disability, or any other basis prohibited by federal, state or local law. Disney champions a business environment where ideas and decisions from all people help us grow, innovate, create the best stories and be relevant in a constantly evolving world.

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