Principal Software Engineer - ESPN+

工作 ID 10122415 地點纽约, 纽约州, 美國 / 旧金山, 加利福尼亚州, 美國 有意工作的公司 Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology 日期已公佈 Aug. 18, 2025

申請

工作概要:

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.

Job Summary:

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.

This role involves building and maintaining both the personalized content recommendation engine that primarily powers ESPN, as well as our in-house A/B testing solution that lets us experiment efficiently. This complex system is built on a foundation of big data pipelines that bring together data about millions of users and thousands of new pieces of content daily. In addition, we have several real-time systems that enable our algorithms to be adaptable to the constantly changing sports news landscape. On top of this foundation, we blend simple algorithms together with complex ML to deliver real-time recommendations at scale.

We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer who is passionate about developing high performance data platforms. To be successful in this role, you need effective communication and collaboration skills, a passion for learning and trying new things, and a strong foundational understanding of programming and computer science. You cannot be afraid to get your hands dirty. We are looking for someone to take ownership of many of the data engineering pieces of our system, take on infrastructure and operations tasks, as well as get involved in our ML and A/B testing efforts. We are a small, effective, agile team run by startup veterans.

Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:

Work with a distributed team of engineers across multiple products building software collaboratively.
Work cross-team to build consensus on approach for delivering projects Collaborate with business partners to understand and refine requirements
Eliminate ambiguity in projects and communicate direction to engineers to help team members work in parallel
Ramp up quickly on existing software to deliver incremental, integrated solutions in a complex environment
Build high-performance, stable, scalable systems to be deployed in an enterprise setting Lead high-level architecture discussions and planning sessions
Participate in the code review process by assessing pull requests
Support systems and services during production incidents as part of the on-call rotation Author and recommend technical proposals and root cause analyses
Provide mentoring and advice for other specialists
Establish engineering practices and standards within the team to drive quality and excellence

Required Education, Experience/Skills/Training:
Basic Qualifications:

Expert in Python and SQL skills processing big datasets.
A strong grasp of computer science fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, databases, etc.)
Experience with at least one major MPP or cloud database technology (Snowflake, Redshift, Big Query, Databricks)
You are a problem solver with strong attention to detail and excellent analytical and communication skills
In-depth experience with Cloud technologies like AWS (S3, ECS, EMR, EC2, Lambda, etc.) Experience using source control systems and CI/CD pipeline

Preferred Qualifications:

Expert in Data Modeling techniques and Data Warehousing standard methodologies and practices
Solid experience with data integration toolsets (i.e Airflow), CI/CD

Experience with:

Minimum of 10 years of related big data engineering experience modeling and developing large data pipelines and platforms

Required Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience

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The hiring range for this position in New York is $193,100.00 - $258,900 per year and in San Francisco, CA $201,900.00 - $270,700.00 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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