Lead Software Engineer

工作 ID 10121134 地點西雅圖, 华盛顿州, 美國 / 圣莫尼卡, 加利福尼亚州, 美國 / 旧金山, 加利福尼亚州, 美國 / 纽约, 纽约州, 美國 有意工作的公司 Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology 日期已公佈 May 16, 2025

申請

工作概要:

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:

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.
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.
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 Content Experience & Delivery team builds systems that provide data at scale to teams across Disney+, Hulu, and Star+. We implement reliable, high-request services that deliver data that helps power streaming user experiences, across web, mobile, and living room devices. We are looking for a software engineer who wants to build and operate these critical services that support all of our users!

We're a fast-paced, dynamic, collaborative and fun team, and looking forward to finding out more about you!

You'll join a hardworking group of engineers who strive to create the best-in-class Recommendations & Discovery experiences for hundreds of millions of customers across Disney+, Hulu, ABC and ESPN. You will collaborate with Data Science/ML and Product teams to innovate on, develop and operate Recommendation Systems at scale.

As a Lead Software Engineer, you will collaborate closely with engineers, project managers, and product managers to find the best solution for our viewers. You will drive projects end-to-end: designing the initial solution; finding alignment with stakeholders; execution of the necessary code; and overseeing the deployment of services to production. Members of the team look to your code and documentation as examples of What To Do. You value good-faith collaboration, driving best practices, and promoting excellence on your team. If this sounds like you, we would love to hear from you!

What You Will Do:

Lead the development of well-architected solutions and delivery of maintainable code.
Lead development of testing methodologies and delivery of test frameworks.
Lead technical design and implementation of complex new features.
Expertly break down work at the epic level, setting project milestones with reasonable deadlines.
Design new solutions and ensure alignment across engineering and product teams.
Prioritize work within a project to deliver on the most necessary or urgent requirements.
Write code to implement new features or optimize existing services.
Effectively communicate with stakeholders on project progress.
Anticipate and mitigate risk on projects.
Determine the most efficient means to sufficiently test new code: unit tests, integration tests, performance tests, etc.
Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation for our tier-1 critical services facing millions of users worldwide.
Use logs, monitoring tools, and work with developers to determine root causes across distributed components.
Set best practices for the team for on-call responsibilities such as deployments, monitoring, and investigating incidents
Perform code reviews for members of the team, bearing a sense of responsibility for approved code.
Coach and mentor teammates in an open, respectful, flexible, empathetic manner. Help onboard new team members.
Actively participate in daily stand-ups and other scrum ceremonies.

What You Will Bring:

Basic Qualifications:

Minimum of 7 years of related experience crafting and operating backend services.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience
1+ years of related experience crafting and operating large-scale, high-availability backend services.
Experience with algorithms and ML model implementation & operation at scale for consumer facing experiences.
Demonstrated knowledge crafting and operating JVM services.
Proven track record of designing and driving consensus on backend architectures.
Demonstrated knowledge of asynchronous programming.
Demonstrated knowledge of object-oriented programming patterns.
Demonstrated knowledge of functional programming patterns.
Demonstrated knowledge of source control systems and CI/CD pipelines.
1+ years experience operating within a Public Cloud Provider (e.g., AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)
Experience with observability tools for metrics, logging, and monitoring (e.g., Datadog, Splunk, Grafana)
Ability to design and understand high-level architecture and frameworks as well as dive deep into individual technical components and systems.
Ability to pragmatically drive technical projects with an analytical and data-driven approach.
Demonstrated knowledge of AGILE/Scrum practices.
Skilled at work breakdown and task estimation.
Strong communication skills and a desire to share your knowledge with team members and others across Disney Streaming.

Preferred Qualifications

Demonstrated knowledge of messaging technologies (e.g., Kafka, Kinesis, SQS, etc.)
Experience working with remote global teams and a flexible schedule to meet in different time zones.

#DISNEYTECH

The hiring range for this position in New York, NY and Seattle, WA is $159,500.00 to $213,900.00 per year, in San Francisco, CA is $166,800.00 - $223,600.00 and in Santa Monica, CA is $152,200.00 to $204,100.00 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. 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.

申請

關於Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology:

在Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology，我們結合想像力與創新，以重新想像人們體驗和參與世上最受歡迎故事和產品的方式。我們的工作內容廣泛，且精深細密。我們創造令人驚豔的體驗、改變媒體的未來，並打造產品和平台，讓世界各地的人們都能與自己喜愛的故事和體育活動緊密相連。

Disney結合世界級技術與獨特創意，因而與眾不同。這是我們過去、現在和未來的核心。我們是故事敍述者和創新者。創作者和創建者。表演者和工程師。

關於 The Walt Disney Company:

Walt Disney Company 連同其子公司和聯營公司，是領先的多元化國際家庭娛樂和媒體企業，其業務主要涉及三個範疇：Disney Entertainment、ESPN 及 Disney Experiences。Disney 在 1920 年代的起步之初，只是一間卡通工作室，至今已成為娛樂界的翹楚，並昂然堅守傳承，繼續為家庭中每位成員創造世界一流的故事與體驗。Disney 的故事、人物與體驗傳遍世界每個角落，深入人心。我們在 40 多個國家/地區營運業務，僱員及演藝人員攜手協力，創造全球和當地人們都珍愛的娛樂體驗。

這個職位隸屬於 Disney Streaming Technology LLC，其所屬的業務部門是 Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology。

Disney Streaming Technology LLC 是提供平等就業機會的僱主。求職者都會獲得聘僱考量的機會，不分種族、宗教、膚色、生理性別、性傾向、社會性別、性別認同、性別表達、原國籍、血統、年齡、婚姻狀態、軍人或退伍軍人身份、醫療狀況、遺傳資訊或殘疾狀況、或者聯邦、州級或地方法律所禁止的其他任何基本特徵。Disney 提倡讓所有人的想法和決策都有助我們發展、創新、創造最好故事的商業環境，並與瞬息萬變的世界息息相關。

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