Software Engineer II - Manifest Delivery

The Walt Disney Company • Santa Monica, CA

29d

About The Position

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology 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. Here are a few reasons why we think you’d love working here: 1.Building the future of Disney’s media: Our Technologists are designing and building the products and platforms that will power our media, advertising, and distribution businesses for years to come. 2.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. 3.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. The Manifest Delivery team is accountable for ensuring that customers can play back videos across Disney's suite of streaming applications. The team's responsibilities include delivering HLS and DASH manifests that power the in-app players across a variety of players for the VOD experience. The team is involved in end-to-end quality of service for playback, from how long it takes to start a video to how the video segments are delivered. We are looking for a Software Developer to help us build a robust, reliable, and fast set of manifest services.

Requirements

• Minimum 3 years of software development experience preferably with Golang.
• Experience building scalable, fault-tolerant, high-uptime systems in a cloud native environment - preferably AWS cloud.
• Experience designing and building backend APIs.
• Strong understanding of OO design patterns and concepts.
• Experience with maintaining large code bases with version control, testing flows and monitoring tools.
• Excellent communication, collaboration skills and a strong teamwork ethic.

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with streaming video technology (i.e. DASH, HLS, CMAF, etc).
• Proactive problem-solving mindset - actively looking to solve problems, taking initiative to find and fix defects and collaborating with peers to continuously analyze and optimize performance.
• Ability to thrive in a small, fast-paced development team while also being capable of independently managing tasks, troubleshooting issues, and balancing multiple priorities under tight deadlines.
• Experience with: Backend API design and distributed cloud computing Software Development collaboration best practices (i.e. git workflows, pull request feedback, etc.)

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain high scale Golang backend APIs to power DASH and HLS VOD and live dynamic ad insertion playback across Disney’s streaming applications.
• Develop infrastructure and deploy maintain highly available distributed systems via AWS with tooling like Spinnaker and Kubernetes.
• Write design documents for new systems, contribute to team pull requests and documentation and actively participate in team agile ceremonies.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees