Sr Software Engineer

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.

• Build and maintain product-driven initiatives to improve and expand the Unified Messaging Platform, and enhance/improve the underlying codebase to be extensible, reusable, and maintainable. Actively participate in code reviews, offering constructive feedback to improve code quality, system reliability, and performance.
• Lead the design & enhancement of critical services in UMP, ensuring scalability, performance, and reliability. Research and integrate new technologies into the production environment to optimize core service offerings. Collaborate with your squad, Product Managers, Designers, QA, Operations, and other stakeholders to understand requirements and articulate technical decisions and outcomes.
• Promote team support activities such as participating in regular Agile/Scrum ceremonies (stand-up, retrospectives, sprint planning); provide technical guidance to junior team members, covering code quality, system design, and best practices in software development.
• Scheduled on-call duty

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building internet-scale web or services applications
• Experience in a Java and/or alternative JVM application development environments (Scala/Kotlin)
• Familiarity with the AWS environment (ECS, S3, EC2, Lambda, Cloud Watch, etc)
• Solid understanding with software development fundamentals
• Proficiency with writing unit, integration and functional tests
• Experience with Relational and No
  
  SQL Databases like Postgres, MySql, Dynamo
  
  DB, Cassandra
• Proficiency with standard CI/CD procedures & tools like Jenkins, Github Actions, Spinnaker
• Familiarity with service APIs and/or SDKs
• Understanding of agile processes, software version control & project management tools (e.g. Github, SVN, Jira, Basecamp)

• Experience or certification with AWS services, including S3, SQS, SNS, Kinesis, Lambda, Cloud Watch, or other cloud platforms (Azure, GCP)
• Familiarity with big data technologies & tools like Spark, Databricks, EMR
• Familiarity with Terraform or other infrastructure as code tooling
• Experience building scalable, fault-tolerant, high-uptime systems
• Creative and inventive problem solving
• Desire and initiative to mentor other developers

• Experience with SES or Salesforce Marketing Cloud
• Experience with Serverless solutions
• Familiarity with the Scala programming language and the Python programming language

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience.
• Minimum of 5+ years related work experience

The hiring range for this position in Seattle, WA is $148,700 to $199,400 per year, Santa Monica, CA is $141,900 to $190,300 per year and in San Francisco, CA is $155,400 to $208,400 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and 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.