Software Engineer

Job Description

About the Role & Team
On 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 maximize 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.

The Commerce, Growth & Identity (CGI) team is dedicated to three business-critical areas at Disney that will help transform its media business. They create seamless user experiences for consumers who can choose from a wide range of subscription plans, enabling more choice and flexibility. The CGI team is also focused on building innovative and cutting-edge capabilities that will drive subscriptions, engagement, and monetization across Disney's streaming and digital products.

What You Will Do
• Work as part of a team to implement highly performant, low latency, globally distributed, mission critical systems that
power the billing of our subscribers.
• Develop pipelines to stream data for reconciliation and to our analytics partners.
• Write, test, review, and release elegant software systems that are robust and scalable production ready using the latest
technologies
• Deploy services in multiple regions globally and be responsible for handling traffic for over 100 million combined Disney and
Hulu users.
• Work closely with QA engineers to ensure appropriate coverage.
• Attend agile methodology and SCRUM processes such as sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily standups, and
retrospectives with the team.
• Participate in bi-weekly grooming and planning meetings in order to adapt to changing product priorities and roadmaps.

Required Qualifications & Skills
• Knowledge of at least one object-oriented language.
• Knowledge/experience with AWS products and services (ECS, S3, DynamoDB, SQS, Kinesis, etc.) or other cloud providers.
• Familiarity with databases (SQL and no-SQL).
• Experience taking ownership of features/functionality and delivering projects end-to-end with high quality and robust
architecture.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work with multi-functional business partners.
• Ability to investigate any technical component as well as understand and drive the overall systems architecture.
• Ability to learn new software and technologies quickly.
• Ability to follow instructions and work in a collaborative team environment
• Self- motivated and detail-oriented

Preferred Qualifications
• Experience with Scala and functional programming.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of
study, and/or equivalent work experience

The hiring range for this position in New York, NY is $98, 000-$131,300 per year and in Santa Monica, CA is $93,400-125,200 per year and in Seattle, WA is $98,000-$131,300 per year based on a 40 hour work week. The amount of hours scheduled per week may vary based on business needs. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candide's geographic region, job related knowledge, skills, eand 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.

About Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology:

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Technology (DE&E Technology) provides the technological backbone and product development for Disney's two media business units, while helping to keep the company at the vanguard of innovation – enabling the Company to continuously leverage technology to enhance storytelling and creativity, while delivering scalability, flexibility, and efficiency for its businesses.

This position is with Disney Streaming Technology LLC, which is part of a business we call Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology.

Disney Streaming Technology LLC is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, military or veteran status, medical condition, genetic information or disability, or any other basis prohibited by federal, state or local law. Disney champions a business environment where ideas and decisions from all people help us grow, innovate, create the best stories and be relevant in a constantly evolving world.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-d51q77-18-117-145-247-42 in your application.