Job Posting Title:
Software Engineer IIReq ID:
10107604Job Description:
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 User Foundations team builds critical User Capabilities that are shared across all experiences on the streaming services: Disney+, Hulu, ESPN+ and Star+. We implement reliable, high-throughput services and pipelines for gathering information about our users, and delivering personalized experiences. We're a fast-paced, dynamic, collaborative and fun team, and are looking for someone who can slot right in and start delivering from day 1.
Job Summary:
To be successful in this role, you need effective communication and collaboration skills, a passion for learning and trying new things, and a strong foundational understanding of programming and computer science.
As a member of our team, you will apply your knowledge and skills to help us deliver scalable, performant, maintainable, and testable software.
On a daily basis you should bring:
A willingness and desire to effectively communicate and collaborate across teams and systems.
A sense of ownership of the projects delivered by your team and department
A passion for mentoring, learning, and adapting to a very dynamic and fast paced environment
An understanding of how to define technical and operational metrics to measure system health and to manage risk.
A keen eye for potential optimizations and enhancements to our services
Kindness and pragmatic optimism.
Your unique view and experience
What you’ll be doing:
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.
Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:
Develop software designs and specifications
Develops and writes code to meet design specifications
Test, document and deploy code
Support, maintain and break-fix production products
Work with a team to design solutions to various interesting and challenging problems
Be a champion for engineering excellence
Become and stay an expert in current and emerging technologies and tools
Required Education, Experience/Skills/Training:
3+ years of software engineering experience
Understanding of message based distributed, scalable, and resilient systems
Desire to work in a start-up, fast-growth, or rapid-change environment
Experience working on diverse teams
Problem-solving skills to identify the root cause and implement the fix.
Solid communication skills – written, and oral
Ability to be flexible, adapting to changing priorities
Fluent in multiple programming languages and an expert in at least one of: JavaScript, Python, Java
Experience transforming requirements into software design, documentation and software.
Flink for stream and batch processing
Preferred Qualifications
SpringBoot and related Spring projects
Non-relational database technologies e.g. DynamoDB
Redis and/or MemCache
Apache Kafka and/or Kinesis
Terraform, Docker and Kubernetes
Expert with at least one of: AWS, Azure, GCP
Experience building, testing, and tuning distributed systems
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
Job Posting Segment:
Product & Data EngineeringJob Posting Primary Business:
PDE - Engagement Experiences & PlatformsPrimary Job Posting Category:
Software EngineerEmployment Type:
Full timePrimary City, State, Region, Postal Code:
Santa Monica, CA, USAAlternate City, State, Region, Postal Code:
Date Posted:
2024-12-060 applies
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