Posted:
8/26/2024, 3:39:14 AM
Location(s):
California, United States ⋅ Santa Monica, California, United States
Experience Level(s):
Mid Level
Field(s):
Software Engineering
Job Posting Title:
Software Engineer IIReq ID:
10095343Job Description:
On any given day at Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology (DEET), we’re reimagining ways to create magical viewing experiences for the world’s most beloved stories while also redefining 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 improve 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!
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 complete groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms and enhance how audiences experience sports, entertainment & news.
Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology's Metadata Ingest team is seeking a Senior Software Engineer who is sharp, motivated and will help build the technology backbone for our current and future products. The team is responsible for the end-to-end technology needed to acquire live and linear content from over 1000 channels and deliver the highest quality streaming services to tens of millions of users. As a part of this team, you would use technologies like SpringBoot, Postgres, Redis, Kafka and native AWS resources such as DynamoDB, SQS, Elasticache, Elasticsearch etc.
Responsibilities
Understand and implement the best engineering practices to write well constructed and easy to maintain code while collaborating with product managers to achieve business functionality
Improve the content ingestion and management system APIs, publishing tools and workflows
Design well architected solutions and build iteratively into systems while maintaining the best agile practices; and write defensive and robust tests
Communicate status with peers and/or managers and present views and opinions patiently
Qualifications
A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
3+ years of software development experience, and proficiency in Python or Java
Expertise with core Computer Science fundamentals, including Object-Oriented programming, data structures and algorithms (hashing, trees, graphs, search etc.)
Fundamental understanding of relational, document and graph databases
An enjoyment for going deep on performance tuning, and a love of owning a problem end-to-end
A desire to relentlessly pursue better ways on how to tackle problems and improve systems
Nice-to-haves
Curiosity about designing large scale distributed systems on the cloud
Experience with ETL or ELT pipelines
Job Posting Segment:
Disney Entertainment & ESPN TechnologyJob Posting Primary Business:
Media EngineeringPrimary Job Posting Category:
Software EngineerEmployment Type:
Full timePrimary City, State, Region, Postal Code:
Santa Monica, CA, USAAlternate City, State, Region, Postal Code:
Date Posted:
2024-07-23Website: https://jobs.disneycareers.com/
Headquarter Location: Burbank, California, United States
Employee Count: 10001+
Year Founded: 1923
IPO Status: Private