Disney Jobs – Software Engineer

Job Description:

As a member of the Watch Services team, you will architect, build and support the APIs that deliver ESPN’s video content to all our platforms, and the authentication services that grant streaming access to Fans. As a principal software engineer you will be responsible for designing extensible solutions, at scale, and advancing our platform onto modern frameworks and technologies. We are looking for a passionate, impactful technologist who seeks to bring the best out in themselves and those around them. Someone who can provide a fresh perspective and innovative insight to our initiatives.

Job Responsibilities:

• Architect, design, implement, support and improve highly scalable, fault tolerant, business critical software applications
• Contribute and review code, set standards, and work with engineers to ensure product and design specifications are met.
• Maintain a deep understanding of our core systems and how they interact with upstream and downstream dependencies.
• Provide mentoring to engineers on advanced technical issues. Provide guidance and enforcement of development practices and processes.
• Research, learn, and evangelize widespread adoption of new technologies and architecture patterns.
• Influence and contribute to department technical strategy and planning.
• Responsible for fundamental platform performance, scalability, and resiliency of multiple mission-critical cloud-based services. Lead cross-functional troubleshooting of complex issues as needed

Job Requirements:

• Extensive knowledge in cloud-based technologies such as AWS EC2, ECS, Fargate, S3, Lambda, CloudFormation, RDS, etc.
• Expertise in developing high volume, cached, fault tolerant, multi-threaded scalable systems
• Mastery in Java and experience with multiple open-source technologies like Spring, Tomcat, Nginx, Solr, Elasticsearch, Redis, GraphQL, etc

Qualification & Experience:

• Advanced experience working with relational databases (MySQL/Aurora/MS SQL) and NoSQL data stores (Dynamo, Mongo, Cassandra)
• Highly knowledgeable with hands-on experience on high throughput messaging systems like Kafka, SNS/SQS, Rabbit, etc (Kafka preferred)
• Expertise with full lifecycle of application development, including best practices of unit testing, code reviews, documentation, etc.
• Motivated self-starter with the ability to learn and adapt to new technologies. Can effectively articulate complex ideas and influence others through well-reasoned explanations
• Extensive hands-on experience building scalable, low latency, high-throughput APIs
• Experience with build and deployment technologies such as Jenkins and Docker

Job Details:

Company: The Walt Disney Company

Vacancy Type:  Full Time

Job Location: Glendale, CA, US

Application Deadline: N/A

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