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 here:
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.
Media Engineering Media Engineering is an innovative organization that is focused on providing the best possible video playback experience, art, and metadata to customers around the world, powered by exceptional technology. This strategic work requires streamlining and repurposing technology across different business and distribution channels – including streaming, linear, and theatrical – so that technology can ebb and flow across the needs of the business.
We are looking for an experienced backend services focused Lead Software Engineer to join the Media Distribution Engineering team. Your success will depend on your ability to partner with multi-functional teams across the organization to deliver highly available, performant at scale, services critical to delivering high quality & timely experiences to subscribers. We are responsible for the timely and efficient distribution & management of content to regional origins spanning the globe. Our mission is to invent, design, build, deploy, monitor & support tooling & services powering initiatives and operations needed for global distribution of entertainment experiences. If you have an interest in streaming or want to be a part of a fast-paced & global-scale engineering opportunity, this role is for you!
Responsibilities Work with a team of engineers to build high-performance, stable, scalable systems to be deployed in an enterprise setting
Lead high-level architecture discussions and planning sessions; author and share feedback on technical proposals and root cause analyses
Work cross-team to build consensus on approach for delivering projects; eliminate ambiguity in projects and communicate direction to engineers to help team members work in parallel; provide mentoring and advice for other engineers
Talk to business partners to understand and refine requirements
Participate in the on-call rotation, supporting systems and services during production incidents
Establish standards within the team to drive quality and excellence
Participate in organization technical community through presentations, tech talks, and other knowledge-sharing efforts
Basic Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience
7+ years related experience crafting backend architectures and delivering backend applications in a production environment.
Expertise in functional programming patterns and experience building RESTful services using Scala APIs; validated knowledge of operating large-scale high-availability backend services
Understanding of async programming models (events, callbacks, promises, async/await) and threading/concurrency
Strong grasp of computer science fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, databases, etc.) and strong understanding of design patterns and principles
Experience operating within a Public Cloud Provider (e.g., AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)
Knowledge of AGILE/Scrum practices.
Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Self-learner, independent, excellent problem-solving skills
Preferred Qualifications: Understanding of source control concepts and systems, CI/CD pipelines and exposure to Git
Experience with build and deployment technologies such as Jenkins and Docker. Experience with messaging technologies (e.g., Kafka, Kinesis, SQS, etc.)
Experience with observability tools for metrics, logging, and monitoring (e.g., Datadog, Splunk, Grafana)
Experience with storage & caching technologies: S3, S3 Compatible on-prem object storage, DynamoDB, RDBMS, Redis
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