Software Engineer II

Technology is at the heart of Disney’s past, present, and future. Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is a global organization of engineers, product developers, designers, technologists, data scientists, and more – all working to build and advance the technological backbone for Disney’s media business globally.

The team marries technology with creativity to build world-class products, enhance storytelling, and drive velocity, innovation, and scalability for our businesses. We are Storytellers and Innovators. Creators and Builders. Entertainers and Engineers. We work with every part of The Walt Disney Company’s media portfolio to advance the technological foundation and consumer media touch points serving millions of people around the world. 

Here are a few reasons why we think you’d love working here:

Building the future of Disney’s media: Our Technologists are designing and building the products and platforms that will power our media, advertising, and distribution businesses for years to come.

Reach, Scale & Impact: More than ever, Disney’s technology and products serve as a signature doorway for fans' connections with the company’s brands and stories. Disney+. Hulu. ESPN. ABC. ABC News…and many more. These products and brands – and the unmatched stories, storytellers, and events they carry – matter to millions of people globally.

Innovation: We develop and implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms, and solve complex and distinctive technical problems.

Product Engineering is a unified team responsible for the engineering of Disney Entertainment & ESPN digital and streaming products and platforms. This includes product engineering, media engineering, quality assurance, engineering behind personalization, commerce, lifecycle, and identity.

Summary:

Disney+ is the Disney-branded streaming service featuring an incomparable collection of content from its brands and franchises recognized and respected all over the world including Star Wars, Marvel, Pixar, Disney, and NatGeo. Our combined Hulu and Disney team is looking for hardworking team players, who will thrive upon the legacy of Disney and Hulu, embrace unconventional thinking, and who are passionate about contributing to The Walt Disney Company’s direct-to-consumer (DTC) experience. 

We are making major enhancements to our multi-region, multi-tenant core image service platform to enable all of our brands to have the same dynamic experience.  You can be a part of building a unified image service platform that will encapsulate the very best of Hulu and Disney. This position might be right for you if:

• You want to help us build a core image manipulation and delivery platform that impacts every fan of our products

• You’re a curious and efficient engineer who wants to feel empowered to help define the direction of development and work side-by-side with some of the brightest minds in our organization

• You enjoy working with other brilliant engineers in a challenging but supportive environment, learning from others and sharing your expertise with them

Responsibilities:

• Design core, backend software components for the Image Service Platform

• Collaborate with other Image Service engineers and external engineering teams to evaluate and design appropriate solutions to effectively meet Product requirements

• Build and manage code in AWS using CloudFormation or Terraform

• Evaluate new or existing technologies and products for implementation, considering costs, usability, compatibility and scalability

• Create technical documentation and runbooks for reference and reporting purposes

• Use a mix of technologies including Scala, Java, Python, Kafka, Kinesis,
  DynamoDB, MySQL and an array of AWS native services

• Collaborate with other team members (including product owners, TPMs, and other stakeholders) to achieve product and business requirements

• Conduct design and code reviews

• Analyze and improve efficiency, scalability, and stability of various system resources

Basic Qualifications:

• BS, BA, or advanced degree in computer science, engineering, or its equivalent

• 3+ years of experience building internet-scale API or services applications

• Experience in a Scala and alternative JVM application development environments (Java/Kotlin)

• Familiarity with the AWS environment, including ECS (Docker), S3, EC2, Lambda, CloudWatch

• Familiarity with infrastructure as code such as Terraform, CloudFormation

• Understanding of software development fundamentals

• Familiarity with writing unit, integration and functional tests

• Familiarity integrating with service APIs and/or SDKs

• Understanding of agile processes software team with version control & project management tools (e.g. Github, SVN, Jira, Basecamp)

• Creative and inventive problem solving

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, and a team-focused approach towards software development.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in Java, Python

• Knowledge of these database solutions, DynamoDB, MySQL/Aurora, Redis Elasticache, MongoDB, Cassandra

• Experience building scalable, fault-tolerant, high-uptime systems

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The hiring range for this position in Seattle and New York is $120,300 to $161,300 per year; in Santa Monica and Glendale is $114,900 to $154,100; and in San Francisco is $125,800 to $168,700 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also 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.