Software Engineer II - Live Pipeline

The Walt Disney Company • Glendale, CA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is seeking a motivated software engineer to join the Live Pipeline team within the Product Engineering Organization. This team is responsible for implementing reliable, high-throughput services that handle media metadata and generate the manifest/playlist delivered to web, mobile, and living room devices. The role involves building and operating essential services that support all Disney Streaming users across platforms like Hulu, Disney+, Star+, and ESPN+. The team works on systems that power live playback for Disney Streaming clients running on various devices, including smart TVs, smartphones, gaming consoles, FireTV, Apple TV, and Roku. The engineer will apply backend development experience to build large-scale, distributed services, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and maintain a deep understanding of core systems.

Requirements

• 3+ years of hands-on, professional software engineering experience in backend development.
• Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent industry experience.
• Strong programming skills in Go / C++ and other object-oriented languages, and a strong grasp of computer science fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, databases, etc.)
• Experience using source control systems and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience performing load testing and building creative solutions to optimize performance, latency, and cost.
• An ability to work both independently and collaboratively.
• A broad perspective on problem-solving.
• Experience deploying and scaling within a cloud/on-prem infrastructure.
• Expert in AWS
• Strong communication skills and a desire to share your knowledge with team members and others at Disney Streaming.

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with streaming video technology (i.e. DASH, HLS, CMAF, etc).
• Demonstrates a proactive problem-solving mindset, actively seeking to resolve issues, taking the initiative to identify and correct defects, and collaborating with colleagues to continuously analyze and optimize performance.
• Proven capability to excel in a small, fast-paced development team environment, coupled with the ability to independently manage tasks, diagnose and resolve issues, and effectively balance multiple competing priorities under stringent deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate essential services that support all Disney Streaming users.
• Apply experience with backend development to build large-scale, distributed services.
• Collaborate with other software engineers and cross-functional teams.
• Maintain a deep understanding of our core systems and how they interact with upstream and downstream dependencies.
• Contribute and review code, set standards, and work with engineers to ensure product and design specifications are met.
• Responsible for fundamental platform performance, scalability and resiliency.
• Contribute to cross-functional troubleshooting of complex issues as needed.

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
• Education Level: Associate degree