Walt Disney-posted 3 months ago
$138,900 - $186,200/Yr
Senior
Santa Monica, CA
5,001-10,000 employees
Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries

Technology is at the heart of Disney's past, present, and future. Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology (DEEP&T) 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. We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Data Foundation Platform team. We build and provide cloud platform and services that are used by data engineering teams and data scientists across Disney Entertainment and ESPN Technology, particularly in processing data related to our streaming and web-based businesses (e.g., data from Disney+, Hulu, ESPN, etc.). The successful candidate will have a passion for technology and solid coding skills. Knowledge of specific technologies may be helpful but is less important than an ability to learn quickly. We value team members who aren't afraid to dive deep when required, think for themselves, and have great communication and teamwork skills.

  • Contribute to maintaining, updating, and expanding existing Data platform projects written in Spark, Python, and Scala
  • Design, and code shared libraries that abstract complex business logic to allow consistent functionality across all data pipelines in the Data organization
  • Build and evolve secure systems across cloud and on-prem environments, integrating with a wide variety of external systems
  • Build and maintain functionality across a range of areas - backend services, front-end UI, APIs, and command-line tools
  • Drive operational excellence through observability, alerting, and reliability practices
  • Be an active participant and advocate of agile/scrum ceremonies to collaborate and improve processes for our team
  • Engage with and understand our customers, forming relationships that allow us to understand and prioritize both innovative new offerings and incremental platform improvements
  • Maintain detailed documentation of your work and changes to support data quality and data governance requirements
  • BS/BA in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a closely related field
  • 5+ years software engineering experience in developing large projects
  • Strong algorithmic problem-solving expertise and fundamental programming skills
  • Proficient in Data Engineering technologies like Airflow, Spark, Databricks, Snowflake, OpenSearch, Neptune
  • Hands-on experience with modern architectural paradigms such as microservices, event-driven systems, and containerization (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Solid understanding of software design patterns and system design principles, with the ability to both apply best practices and critically assess them when needed
  • Proficiency with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure, with a preference for AWS experience
  • Strong communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across technical and non-technical teams
  • Passion to explore new technologies and participate in proof of concepts
  • Demonstrated curiosity and enthusiasm for exploring new technologies through hands-on experimentation or proof-of-concept projects
  • Strong interest in tackling complex, fast-evolving technology or business challenges
  • Experience designing and building internet-scale platforms or systems with high availability and performance requirements
  • Contributions to open-source projects or a portfolio of personal work (e.g., GitHub) that reflects your technical interests and abilities
  • Medical, financial, and/or other benefits
  • Bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package
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