Job Posting Title:
Senior Staff Software Engineer
Req ID:
10092744
Job Description:
As a Senior Staff Software Engineer within Identity Engineering you will provide the leadership and direction that our organisation needs to deliver large, exciting initiatives. You will contribute to and be part of an engaging, dynamic and inclusive engineering organisation.St Staff Software Engineers are empowered to make important architectural decisions that enable us deliver on our most important initiatives. We look to them to build, discover, and introduce new technologies so that we can continuously improve. They help to craft a roadmap of future changes working in partnership with their peers across Product, Project Management, and Engineering.We follow Scrum and Agile principles, make use of continuous integration and deployment, believe in phenomenal collaboration, and our motivated by a shared commitment to continuous learning and improvement.Our team builds and delivers Consumer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) capabilities for The Walt Disney Family of Companies including: Parks and Experiences, Disney+, ESPN, Hulu, Disney Store, ABC, Star Wars, Marvel, NatGeo, and more. To do this we build and run highly available and globally replicated systems that power each customer's journey across our services and experiences.
What You Will Do
- Help deliver important initiatives by making impactful decisions and ensure our organisation delivers on them.
- Mentor engineers to help them improve their technical ability, their domain expertise, and build their profile within and outside of the organisation.
- Discover, define, and refine new technologies and to build, run, and operate stateful microservices and lambdas in a multi-region cloud environment.
- Promote and support Agile methodologies such as Scrum, Kanban, and Scrumban by leading regular ceremonies such as stand-up, retrospectives and sprint planning.
- Collaborate with Product Managers, Designers, QA, Operations, and other business partners to understand requirements and articulate technical decisions and outcomes.
What To Bring
- Domain expertise in either Streaming or Identity (or a consistent track record of learning new domains!).
- Experience with one of these Java Virtual Machine (JVM) languages: Java, Scala, or Kotlin.
- Familiarity with a cloud provider: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Compute (GCP), or Microsoft Azure.
- A willingness to learn, experiment with, and create new technologies.
Nice To Haves
- Familiarity with both object oriented programming (OOP), and functional programming (FP) standard methodologies.
- Familiarity with Terraform, and infrastructure as code (IaC), and DevOps.
- Familiarity with Databricks and Apache Airflow products.
The Perks
- 25 days annual leave.
- Private medical insurance & dental care.
- Free Park Entry: You will have the opportunity to enter any of our parks with your family and friends for free.
- Disney Discounts: you are entitled to discounts on designated Disney products, resort F&B and ticketing.
- Excellent parental and guardian leave.
- Employee Resource Groups – WOMEN @ Disney, Disney DIVERSITY, Disney PRIDE, ENABLED, and our Mental Health & Wellbeing Group, TRUST.
The Walt Disney Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We strive to be a diverse workforce that is representative of our audiences, and where all can thrive and belong. Disney is committed to forming a team that includes and respects a variety of voices, identities, backgrounds, experiences and perspectives.
Job Posting Segment:
Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology
Job Posting Primary Business:
Commerce, Growth, & Identity
Primary Job Posting Category:
Software Engineer
Employment Type:
Full time
Primary City, State, Region, Postal Code:
London, United Kingdom
Alternate City, State, Region, Postal Code:
Date Posted:
2024-06-26