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Design, build, operate, and debug backend services supporting large-scale media acquisition, processing, metadata, and delivery across Disney streaming platforms. The role develops distributed systems using JVM technologies and AWS, handles production issues across service boundaries, collaborates with partner teams, reviews code, and mentors teammates. Preferred experience includes Kafka, video processing pipelines, Kubernetes, observability tooling, and operating production systems.

Design, implement, and test high-throughput, low-latency microservices for Disney's linear advertising platform. Improve observability, translate product stories into tasks, own domain areas, participate in on-call rotations, and build LLM-enabled tooling and agentic workflows. Mentor peers and collaborate across teams to ensure operational metrics, monitoring, and system health.

Own the ABC News CMS media platform strategy and roadmap, including asset models, metadata, ingestion workflows, AI integrations, and video/image publishing capabilities. Lead cross-functional teams across product, engineering, design, and editorial to unify workflows, improve scalability and reliability, manage migrations, and reduce friction for content creators. Define success metrics, communicate tradeoffs to leadership, and deliver measurable platform improvements across web, mobile, authoring, and curation experiences.

Design and build a shared, feature-rich streaming media playback library for Apple platforms. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, design APIs, research playback integrations, implement features, troubleshoot issues, participate in estimation and planning, and ensure high-quality, maintainable code using Apple technologies (UIKit/SwiftUI, AVKit/AVFoundation) across iPhone, iPad, and tvOS.

Own the technical architecture and strategic direction of Disney’s News & Entertainment machine learning platform. Lead personalization, recommendation systems, ML infrastructure, data pipelines, model training, online serving, reliability, incident response, and platform standards across major media brands. Drive metrics-based business outcomes, cross-organizational engineering initiatives, technology adoption, architecture reviews, and mentorship of senior engineers.

Leads travel editorial strategy and execution for National Geographic’s print, digital, social, video, and audio platforms. Conceives, commissions, edits, and produces narrative travel stories and recurring franchises, including Best of the World. Manages freelance contributors, collaborates with creative and marketing teams, develops cross-platform storytelling, represents the brand at industry events, and serves as a media spokesperson.

As a Software Engineer, you'll design and implement scalable web applications using Salesforce CRM Analytics, delivering projects with high quality while collaborating with teams on architecture and innovative solutions.

Lead strategy and execution for experimentation to improve registration and login success across Disney's global products. Define vision and priorities, partner with engineering, design, data science and regional stakeholders, run and scale experiments, analyze login/registration KPIs, ensure data quality, and influence product roadmap to drive customer access and acquisition.

Design, build, and operate scalable, fault-tolerant backend services using Functional Scala and other backend languages. Deploy and manage cloud-native systems on AWS with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), observability (Datadog), and CI/CD (Spinnaker/Istio/Terraform). Collaborate with cross-functional teams, perform code reviews, mentor junior engineers, and follow best practices for reliability, security, and lifecycle maintenance.

Build and operate large-scale batch and streaming data pipelines and real-time feature infrastructure to support production ML. Develop ML-adjacent services, ensure reliability/observability, participate in on-call and incident response, and collaborate with ML, data, and platform teams to meet latency, availability, and data quality requirements.