Senior Software Engineer - Platform and Infrastructure

The Walt Disney Company • Bristol, CT

3d • $141,900 - $199,400 • Onsite

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. The Business Operations team helps guide and articulate technology strategy and research, and is responsible for driving the day-to-day operation of the Product & Technology organization, including: project and portfolio management and tracking; organization-level capital, space, and resource management and allocation; process management; technical incident management; and our administrative and workplace experience support team. As a member of a diverse and talented organization, the Senior Software Engineer crafts elegant and extensible tools, prototypes, and architectures for high-visibility and critical projects. This individual is responsible for direct technical contribution to projects within the team and assisting with ongoing investigations of technologies affecting Disney’s industries. Experience in the fields of native application development, API integration, user experience design, version control, and continuous integration is desired.

Requirements

• A bachelor’s degree in computer science or related technical field
• 5+ years of experience in technical fields
• Hands-on experience with machine learning methods and techniques
• Experience building and maintaining production-grade software
• Experience leveraging AI-assisted development tools in a safe, responsible, and effective manner
• Experience with effective API integration and design
• Demonstrated ownership and responsibility of the development, implementation, and release of the software lifecycle
• Experience with defensive application design and understanding of cybersecurity best practices
• Excellent technical communication skills and attention to detail
• Curiosity and a desire to learn

Nice To Haves

• Experience with audio/video processing and analysis
• Experience with real-time updates and event-driven architectures
• Hands-on experience with AWS services like Kinesis, Dynamo, ElastiCache, Lambda, S3, ECS, Aurora, and Bedrock
• Experience with modern JavaScript/TypeScript development, including production use in back-end RESTful APIs and front-end web applications
• Experience with native mobile application development for iOS (Swift) and/or Android (Kotlin)
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform and CloudFormation
• Experience with monitoring tools like CloudWatch and Datadog
• Workflow implementation centered on real-time updates and event-driven architectures

Responsibilities

• Design prototypes and tools supporting Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology
• Responsible for researching best approaches and architectures to solve interesting and unique problems facing Disney’s businesses.
• Identify elegant solutions to complex and unique problems

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: Senior