Sr Software Engineer

Job Posting Title:

Sr Software Engineer

Req ID:

10098713

Job Description:

Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology

On any given day at Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology, we’re reimagining ways to create magical viewing experiences for the world’s most beloved stories while also transforming Disney’s media business for the future. Whether that’s evolving our streaming and digital products in new and immersive ways, powering worldwide advertising and distribution to improve flexibility and efficiency, or delivering Disney’s unmatched entertainment and sports content, every day is a moment to make a difference to partners and to hundreds of millions of people around the world.

A few reasons why we think you’d love working here:

• Building the future of Disney’s media: DE&E Technologists are designing and building the infrastructure that will power our media, advertising, and distribution businesses for years to come.

• Reach & Scale: The products and platforms this group builds and operates delight millions of consumers every minute of every day – from Disney+ and Hulu, to ABC News and Entertainment, to ESPN and ESPN+, and much more.

• Innovation: We develop and implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms and enhance how audiences experience

The Media Processing and Distribution (MPD) Core Media team develops the video encoding, packaging, and orchestration systems that power Disney’s video streaming platforms (Disney+, ESPN+, and Hulu). We are looking for hardworking team players to join Media Engineering, who will thrive on Disney’s story telling legacy, who will embrace unconventional thinking, and who are passionate about contributing to The Walt Disney Company’s direct-to-consumer (DTC) experience.

Our team is looking to add a Senior Software Engineer to our Media Manufacturing team who possesses a wide range of technical knowledge. This position will be working primarily on the back end with some front end of our applications that supports the workflow orchestration of our Video-on-Demand (VOD) processing pipeline.

Responsibilities:

The MPD Core Media Manufacturing Sr Software Engineer position on our Media Manufacturing team will contribute to the design, implementation, and maintenance of Video-on-Demand (VOD) workflow orchestration. This position will be working primarily on the back end with some front end of our applications that supports the workflow orchestration of our Video-on-Demand (VOD) processing pipeline

• Contributing to the design, development, deployment, troubleshooting and maintenance of the orchestration software system responsible for Disney’s Video-on-Demand (VOD) media encoding pipeline.

• Participating in the design process of new features and workflows leveraging microservice architectural principles.

• Designing and implement new features in Scala and Java that may touch multiple distinct services, including the design, definition, and integration with multiple RESTful APIs.

• Building and deploying applications in a hybrid environment in both on-prem and AWS cloud environments.

• Collaborating closely with technical leads, project managers, and other team members to understand, scope, plan and complete development assignments.

• Developing a deep understanding of Disney Streaming’s media processing workflows, architecture of orchestration system software components and how those components integrate with other systems.Ensuring high software quality and performance standards by participating in code reviews, conducting unit testing, and monitoring the production environment.

• Apply Agile methodology and practices, including participation in regular scrums, sprint planning, and backlog grooming.

• Diagnose issues, evaluate and recommend the best resolution, and execute against that plan.

• Handle on call support / troubleshooting issues including off hours and weekends as necessary

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience working as a developer within complex systems development environments

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field or equivalent experience in lieu of

• Experienced in Java, Scala, MySQL, GitHub Enterprise, AWS, Jenkins 2, Groovy, Docker, ECS, Kubernetes, R