Senior Software Engineer

Disney Streaming encompasses the teams behind the Hulu, Disney+, ESPN+, and Star+ streaming services within Disney's Media & Entertainment Distribution group. We sit at the intersection between entertainment, sports, and technology and seek to connect viewers with the stories they love, while pushing the streaming industry forward with consumer-first innovation

Disney Streaming is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Play IO team within the Services and Data Engineering organization. The Play IO team's mission is to build highly available, high throughput services that are critical to delivering high quality content to our subscribers. If you enjoy streaming media, are interested in live sports and entertainment, or just want to join a fast-growing team that plays a critical role in the core functionality of our streaming products, then our team is for you.

Responsibilities

• Work with a team of engineers building software in a collaborative development process
• Build high-performance, stable, scalable systems to be deployed in an enterprise setting
• Lead high-level architecture discussions and planning sessions
• Participate in the code review process by providing feedback on pull requests
• Participate in the on-call rotation, supporting systems and services during production incidents
• Author and provide feedback on technical proposals and root cause analyses
• Provide mentoring and advice for other engineers
• Establish engineering best practices and standards within the team to drive quality and excellence
• Contribute to the DSS technical community through presentations, tech talks, and other knowledge-sharing efforts

Basic Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of professional experience
• Experience delivering backend applications in a production environment
• Expertise in functional programming especially in a JVM context
• Experience with Scala and/or Java + Spring Framework preferred
• Experience building RESTful services
• Understanding of async programming models (events, callbacks, promises, async/await) and threading/concurrency
• Understanding of source control concepts and exposure to Git
• Self-learner, independent, excellent problem-solving skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience with build and deployment technologies such as Jenkins and Docker
• Experience with AWS products and services (ECS, S3, Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS, RDS, ElastiCache, CloudFront, etc.) or other cloud providers
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent work experience

Additional Information

Location: New York, NY, Santa Monica, CA, or Seattle, WA preferred but also open to US remote for the right candidate.

The hiring range for this remote position is $165,200 to $191,200 per year, which factors in various geographic regions. 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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