Sr Product Software Engineer

The Walt Disney Company • Santa Monica, CA

2d • Onsite

About The Position

Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology is seeking a Sr Product Software Engineer to reimagine magical viewing experiences and transform Disney’s media business. This role involves designing and building the infrastructure for Disney’s media, advertising, and distribution businesses, impacting millions of consumers globally through products like Disney+, Hulu, ESPN, and more. The Lifecycle Messaging team focuses on creating and delivering scaled, customer-centric multi-channel messaging experiences across the customer journey to drive engagement, revenue growth, customer delight, and brand trust, utilizing the Unified Messaging Platform.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience building internet-scale web or services applications
• Experience and/or certification with Cloud Services
• Excellent understanding of software development fundamentals
• Experience with writing unit, integration and functional tests
• Experience with standard CI/CD procedures & tools like jenkins, github action, spinnaker
• Proven ability to integrate with service APIs and/or SDKs
• Experience working in a modern, agile software team with version control & project management tools (e.g. Git, SVN, Jira, Basecamp)
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience.
• Minimum of 5 years related work experience.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in a Java and/or alternative JVM application development environments (Scala)
• Knowledge or certification with AWS services, including ECS (Docker), S3, EC2, Lambda, CloudWatch
• Experience with big data technologies & tools like Spark, Databricks, EMR
• Experience with Terraform or other infrastructure as code tooling
• Experience with graph-based data workflows such as Apache Airflow, Meson
• Experience building scalable, fault-tolerant, high-uptime systems
• Creative and inventive problem solving
• Experience mentoring other developers

Responsibilities

• Lead the design & enhancement of critical services in UMP, ensuring scalability, performance, and reliability.
• Research and integrate new technologies into the production environment to optimize core service offerings.
• Promote and support Agile methodologies such as Scrum, Kanban, and Scrumban by actively participating in regular ceremonies such as stand-up, retrospectives and sprint planning.
• Provide technical guidance to junior team members, covering code quality, system design, and best practices in software development.
• Actively participate in code reviews, offering constructive feedback to improve code quality, system reliability, and performance.
• Collaborate with your squad, Product Managers, Designers, QA, Operations, and other stakeholders to understand requirements and articulate technical decisions and outcomes.

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