Sr Software Engineer

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.

Product Engineering is a unified team responsible for the engineering of Disney Entertainment & ESPN digital and streaming products and platforms. This includes product engineering, media engineering, quality assurance, engineering behind personalization, commerce, lifecycle, and identity.

Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology  is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the API Services team within the Product Engineering organization. The API Services team’s mission is to build highly available, high throughput services that are critical to delivering high quality content to our subscribers.

If you enjoy streaming media, are interested in live sports and entertainment, or just want to join a team that plays an integral part of the revenue producing arm of a company, then our team is for you.

Technologies include NGINX, Lua, Redis, Python, and AWS (ECS, Lambda, DynamoDB, WAF, among others).  Experience in these areas is preferred but not required.

Qualifications:

• You collaborate with team members and project management to identify requirements, and provide technical solutions and direction.
• You are comfortable with ambiguity and being part of conversations where discordant views are present.
• You have an excellent understanding of software development fundamentals and architecture, and you aren't dogmatic about technology choices.
• You have experience with writing unit and integration tests, and can create a robust testing strategy.
• You have significant knowledge/experience with web technologies and web systems architecture
• You have significant working knowledge of Java, Scala, and associated technologies.
• You have significant experience building and maintaining highly automated systems that leverage tools such as Jenkins, Cloud Formation, Terraform, Kubernetes, and Spinnaker
• You preferably have knowledge/experience with AWS products and services (EC2, S3, Lambda, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, CloudFront, etc.) or other cloud providers.

Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:

• Collaborate with senior internal team members and external stakeholders to gather requirements and drive the implementation of solutions that support our business goals   
• Design and develop test automation frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, build systems, and reporting tools to support the flagship streaming mobile apps Disney+ and Hulu.
• Continuously identify and pursue opportunities to enhance systems, products, or services with each iteration.
• Advocate engineering best practices, including the use of design patterns, code review, and automated unit/functional testing 

Minimum Education Required:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent training or work experience

Required Years of Work Experience

5+ years of experience in a technical field.

The hiring range for this position in New York, NY is $148,700 - $199,400 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.