Software Engineer II

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

The hiring range for this position in Santa Monica, California is $112,600 - $151,000 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.