Sr Software Engineer
Company: Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology
Location: New York
Posted on: October 11, 2024
Job Description:
Disney Entertainment & ESPN TechnologyOn 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 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.A few reasons why we think you'd love
working here:
- Building the future of Disney's media: -DE&E Technologists
are designing and building the infrastructure that will power our
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 implement groundbreaking products
and techniques that shape industry norms and enhance how audiences
experienceThe -Media Processing and Distribution (MPD) Core Media
-team develops the video encoding, packaging, and orchestration
systems that power Disney's video streaming platforms (Disney+,
ESPN+, and Hulu). We are looking for hardworking team players to
join Media Engineering, who will thrive on Disney's story telling
legacy, who will embrace unconventional thinking, and who are
passionate about contributing to The Walt Disney Company's
direct-to-consumer (DTC) experience.Responsibilities:The MPD Core
Media Manufacturing Sr Software Engineer position on our -Media
Manufacturing -team will contribute to the design, implementation,
and maintenance of Video-on-Demand (VOD) workflow orchestration.
- Contributing to the design, development, deployment,
troubleshooting and maintenance of the orchestration software
system responsible for Disney's Video-on-Demand (VOD) media
encoding pipeline.
- Participating in the design process of new features and
workflows leveraging microservice architectural principles.
- Designing and implement new features in Scala and Java that may
touch multiple distinct services, including the design, definition,
and integration with multiple RESTful APIs.
- Building and deploying applications in a hybrid environment in
both on-prem and AWS cloud environments.
- Collaborating closely with technical leads, project managers,
and other team members to understand, scope, plan and complete
development assignments.
- Developing a deep understanding of Disney Streaming's media
processing workflows, architecture of orchestration system software
components and how those components integrate with other
systems.Ensuring high software quality and performance standards by
participating in code reviews, conducting unit testing, and
monitoring the production environment.
- Apply Agile methodology and practices, including participation
in regular scrums, sprint planning, and backlog grooming.
- Diagnose issues, evaluate and recommend the best resolution,
and execute against that plan.
- Handle on call support / troubleshooting issues including off
hours and weekends as necessaryBasic Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience working as a developer within complex
systems development environments
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or
related field or equivalent experience in lieu of
- Experienced in Java, Scala, reactive system architecture and
Kafka
- Experience with Java/J2EE, Scala, XML, JSON Messaging, REST
APIs and Relational databases
- Experience with AWS Architecture (Lambda, SNS/SQS Messaging,
API gateway, S3, EC2)
- Experience working with Continuous Integration and Deployment
tools - -e.g., Maven, Jenkins 2, Ansible, GitHub, Kubernetes,
Rancher, Docker
- Experience in database design and writing SQL queries
- Willingness to "think-outside-of-the-box" to resolve project
challenges and improve development processes/systems
- Strong written, verbal and interpersonal communication
skills
- Proven ability to work with all members of an extended and
diverse project team
- Must be detail-oriented, self-organized, committed to quality
and be capable of tracking multiple issues simultaneously
- Ability to function in a virtual team setting and effectively
collaborate globally
- Excellent time management skills with the ability to multitask
effectively
- A desire to work in a fast-paced and challenging work
environment.
- Strong technical, problem-solving, analytical, communication
and interpersonal skills.
- Demonstrated strong partnering and coaching skills.Preferred
Qualifications
- Experience with Spring/Spring-Boot frameworks
- Experience developing complex back-end systems using Java
and/or Scala
- Experience with ZIO or other Scala frameworks
- Experience in video streaming and playback domain such as ABR,
HLS, CDN, TCP/IP, HTTP/2, etc.
- Comfortable with Unix/Linux OS via command line#disneytech
The hiring range for this position in Morrisville, North Carolina
is $129,600 - $173,800 per year and in New York is $142,600 -
$191,100 per year and in Santa Monica, California is $136,100 -
$182,400 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.
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