Product Software Engineer II

The Walt Disney Company • Santa Monica, CA

3d • $117,500 - $165,000 • Onsite

About The Position

Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology is seeking a Software Engineer to join the Media Security team within the Playback Services, Media Engineering organization. This team is responsible for building highly available, high throughput services crucial for delivering high-quality content to subscribers, focusing on the backend of media rights services for facilitating playback and antipiracy technologies. The role is ideal for individuals interested in streaming media, digital rights management, live sports and entertainment, and contributing to the core functionality of streaming products.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience.
• Minimum of 3 years related experience delivering backend applications in a production environment.
• Familiarity with operating high-availability backend services and JVM services.
• Working knowledge of functional programming patterns and experience contributing to RESTful services (Scala APIs).
• Familiarity with async programming models (events, callbacks, promises, async/await) and threading/concurrency.
• Understanding of computer science fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, databases, etc.) and developing knowledge of design patterns and principles.
• Exposure to a Public Cloud Provider (e.g., AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud).
• Understanding of source control concepts and systems, CI/CD pipelines and exposure to Git.
• Familiarity with build and deployment technologies such as Jenkins and Docker.
• Exposure to messaging technologies (e.g., Kafka, Kinesis, SQS, etc.).
• Familiarity with observability tools for metrics, logging, and monitoring (e.g., Datadog, Splunk, Grafana).
• Awareness of caching technologies.
• Knowledge of AGILE/Scrum practices.
• Good written and verbal communication skills.
• Eager to learn, developing problem-solving skills with a collaborative mindset.

Responsibilities

• Write code, complete programming tasks, write tests, perform testing, and debug code for backend services within a team building high-performance, scalable systems.
• Contribute to developing specifications for assigned components, projects, and fixes, and participate in architecture discussions and code reviews to uphold team quality standards.
• Support owned software throughout its lifecycle, performing technical maintenance, troubleshooting, and maintaining documentation.
• Participate in the on-call rotation, learning to support systems and services during production incidents.
• Collaborate with team members and relevant personnel across the organization to deliver features and resolve issues within the team's domain.

Benefits

• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level