About the position
Technology is at the heart of Disney’s past, present, and future. Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is a global organization of engineers, product developers, designers, technologists, data scientists, and more – all working to build and advance the technological backbone for Disney’s media business globally. The team marries technology with creativity to build world-class products, enhance storytelling, and drive velocity, innovation, and scalability for our businesses. We are Storytellers and Innovators. Creators and Builders. Entertainers and Engineers. We work with every part of The Walt Disney Company’s media portfolio to advance the technological foundation and consumer media touch points serving millions of people around the world. A few reasons why we think you’d love working for Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology Building the future of Disney’s media business: DE&E Technologists are designing and building the infrastructure that will power Disney’s media, advertising, and distribution businesses for years to come. Reach, Scale & Impact: More than ever, Disney’s technology and products serve as a signature doorway for fans' connections with the company’s brands and stories. Disney+. Hulu. ESPN. ABC. ABC News…and many more. These products and brands – and the unmatched stories, storytellers, and events they carry – matter to millions of people globally. Innovation: We develop and implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms, and solve complex and distinctive technical problems. Product Engineering is a unified team responsible for the engineering of Disney Entertainment & ESPN digital and streaming products and platforms. This includes product engineering, media engineering, quality assurance, engineering behind personalization, commerce, lifecycle, and identity. User Foundations The User Foundations team builds critical User Capabilities that are shared across all experiences on the streaming services: Disney+, Hulu, ESPN+ and Star+. We implement reliable, high-throughput services and pipelines for gathering information about our users, and delivering personalized experiences. We're a fast-paced, dynamic, collaborative and fun team, and are looking for someone who can slot right in and start delivering from day 1.
Responsibilities
- Actively participate in daily stand-ups and other scrum ceremonies.
- Design new solutions and drive alignment across engineering and product teams.
- Expertly break down work at the epic level, setting project milestones with reasonable deadlines.
- Prioritize work within a project to deliver on the most necessary or urgent requirements.
- Anticipate and mitigate risk on projects.
- Effectively communicate with stakeholders on project progress.
- Write code to implement new features or optimize existing services.
- Determine the most efficient means to sufficiently test new code: unit tests, integration tests, performance tests, etc.
- Set best practices for the team for on-call responsibilities such as deployments, monitoring, and investigating incidents.
- Use logs, monitoring tools, and work with developers to determine root causes across distributed components.
- Perform code reviews for members of the team, bearing a sense of responsibility for approved code.
- Coach and mentor teammates in an open, respectful, flexible, empathetic manner.
- Help onboard new team members.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience.
- 7+ years of related experience crafting and operating large-scale, high-availability backend services.
- Experience crafting and operating JVM services (such as Java, Scala, Kotlin).
- Proven track record of designing and driving consensus on backend architectures.
- Deep understanding of and experience using caching technologies (such as Redis, Memcached, EHcache).
- Strong grasp of computer science fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, databases, etc).
- Strong understanding of design patterns and principles.
- Experience with asynchronous programming.
- Experience with object-oriented programming patterns.
- Experience with functional programming patterns.
- Experience using source control systems and CI/CD pipelines (such as git, Github, Jenkins).
- Experience with AGILE/Scrum practices.
- Skilled at work breakdown and task estimation.
- 1+ years practicing operational best practices for service maintenance.
- Experience deploying and scaling within a cloud infrastructure.
- Experience with observability tools for metrics, logging, and monitoring (such as Datadog, Grafana).
- Strong communication skills and a desire to share your knowledge with team members and others across Disney Streaming.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience collaborating to drive organizational change.
Benefits
- A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package.
- Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.
