Software Engineer
The Media Distribution team is looking to hire a talented Software Engineer to support the growing Content Distribution & Origin (CDO) Engineering team. The Media Distribution team within Disney Streaming is responsible for the development, support, and management of the content delivery pipeline from the Origin to the end-user.
Responsibilities :
- Lead a significant part of the implementation and deployment of data plane and traffic routing logic to the Disney Origin, Midtier, and Edge appliance ecosystem.
- Become the subject matter expert for DNS and HTTP Request Routing
- Create and manage mechanisms to collect metrics and synthesize meaningful insights with that data
- Optimize and tune performance of DNS and L7 Load Balancers
- Apply principled engineering practices including unit testing, integration testing, continuous integration and, by your example, lead others in your team to do likewise.
- Develop your technical understanding to support and build your career.
- Act as a mentor and an example to others in your team and across the organization.
- Collaborate with open source communities to contribute to and maintain software.
Basic Qualifications :
- 3+ years of software development experience.
- Systems programming experience in C/C++
- Prior experience with DNS servers
- Experience building highly performant, stable systems.
- Fondness for unit tests and automated testing in multiple forms
- Experience with Ansible or other configuration management tool
- Experience with Apache Traffic Control or Varnish Cache
- Prior experience with Tomcat - Particularly as it pertains to scalability and performance
- Experience with HTTP Load balancing
- Knowledge of video streaming / HLS
Preferred Qualifications:
- Prior experience working with and contributing to open source software
- Familiarity with Go, Python, Java