At Disney Streaming Services you'll have the opportunity to create highly scalable and reliable services that power Disney+. You'll get to understand the challenges of facilitating a high-quality, detailed media streaming experience across mobile, connected devices, and web, all while using the latest technologies available from AWS and beyond. You'll be tasked with innovating and adopting new patterns and technologies to keep your teams on the cutting edge of development. We feel strongly that teams should own their own processes, decide their own technologies, and design solutions for the long term. If you're interested in working in a highly collaborative team environment like this, please get in touch - we'd love to hear from you!
We achieved a number of key landmarks for our partners including launching Eurosport Player, ESPN+ and of course the highly successful Disney+ service. We are looking for an experienced Lead Software Engineer to join us.
The Developer Platform Engineering team ensures services operate reliably at a high scale, while optimizing other attributes such as infrastructure and operations costs in near real-time using public cloud and open source technologies.
If you are interested in joining Disney Streaming in the pursuit of not only crafting new media products but enjoying the products you build, we would love to hear from you.
Responsibilities:

• Work within a multi-functional team building software in a collaborative & agile development environment
• Participate in the full lifecycle of software development (requirements gathering, designing, building, testing, maintenance, and support)
• Develop some of the highest scale distributed systems in the world, solving exciting and varied engineering problems
• Collaborate with product teams, engineering teams, data analysts and data scientists to design and build data-forward solutions
• Lead the design, building, deployment, and operations of a streaming data platform and software solutions capable of processing and storing petabytes of data quickly, correctly, and reliably
• Leadership and responsibility for technical architecture, roadmap, improvements, reliability, resilience, scalability, and cost of the technical solution
• Integrate with a variety of teams and domains, ranging from advertising, web analytics, and consumer devices
• Drive and maintain a culture of quality, innovation and experimentation
• Work with other teams, voice support for the platform, best-practices, data driven decisions, identify new use cases and features and drive adoption
• Mentor engineers on the best approaches and technical concepts of building large scale streaming data platforms
• Influence and drive software engineering and architecture best practices and standards within the team and wider organization

Basic Qualifications:

• 7+ years of software engineering, ideally Java or Scala
• Experience in Scala, functional programming or Java with interest in Scala.
• Knowledge and experience with distributed systems, their development, operations, observability
• Experience with RDBMS, key/value stores, distributed database solutions
• Experience with streaming data pipelines using tools such as Kinesis, Kafka, Spark, Storm, or Flink
• Experience deploying and running AWS-based solutions and familiarity with tools such as DynamoDB, Elasticache, Cloud Formation, Lambda, IAM, Kinesis, S3, Firehose, EMR etc.
• Experience with devOps, building automation and reliability in large scale systems, immutable infrastructure, containerization, including tools likeJenkins, Docker, EC2, ECS, Cloudwatch, languages like Python, Go
• Automated testing at different levels (unit, integration, functional, performance, etc.)
• Multi-functional approach to software development, devOps experience
• Proficient in designing and implementing large scale distributed systems
• Previous experience taking ownership of features/functionality and delivering projects end-to-end with high quality and robust architecture.
• Ability to dive deep into any technical component as well as understand and drive the overall systems architecture.
• You're a self-learner, independent, and have excellent problem-solving skills.
• You care deeply about craftsmanship in your software, and can work backwards from the customer experience.
• You have excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Bonus Qualifications:

• Deep expertise in functional programming, preferably in Scala.
• Familiarity with the typelevel ecosystem of libraries.
• Experience building streaming data platforms, solving problems including event definition, evolution, processing, patterns and best practices, scalability, reliability, observability, validation etc.
• Knowledge of the data and streaming data ecosystems.
• Interest in programming language theory and compiler design.

Required Education

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent work

About Disney Streaming Services:
Disney Streaming Services is responsible for developing and operating The Walt Disney Company's direct-to-consumer video businesses globally, including the ESPN+ premium sports streaming service; the Disney+ subscription video service; and BAMTECH Media, a global leader in direct-to-consumer video streaming products and solutions. Our core mission is to deliver global audiences the freedom to access content on their terms across any connected device, time or location. We serve consumers by bringing the world's most beloved characters, timeless stories, legendary athletes, and epic sporting events to global audiences through best-in-class direct-to-consumer video services. We strive daily to imaginatively challenge convention with innovative technology that gives consumers the freedom to access content on their terms across any connected device, time or location.
About The Walt Disney Company:
The Walt Disney Company, together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading diversified international family entertainment and media enterprise with the following business segments: media networks, parks and resorts, studio entertainment, consumer products and interactive media. From humble beginnings as a cartoon studio in the 1920s to its preeminent name in the entertainment industry today, Disney proudly continues its legacy of creating world-class stories and experiences for every member of the family. Disney's stories, characters and experiences reach consumers and guests from every corner of the globe. With operations in more than 40 countries, our employees and cast members work together to create entertainment experiences that are both universally and locally cherished.
This position is with Disney Streaming Technology LLC, which is part of a business segment we call Disney Streaming Services.
Disney Streaming Technology LLC is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Disney fosters a business culture where ideas and decisions from all people help us grow, innovate, create the best stories and be relevant in a rapidly changing world.
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The hiring range for this position in New York is $156,292.00 to $209,660.00 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.