Database Engineer II

1 Month ago • 3 Years + • DevOps • $120,300 PA - $161,300 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

The Database Engineer II will build and maintain highly available relational database systems across multiple cloud environments. Responsibilities include ensuring 24/7/365 availability of DE&ET database infrastructure, leveraging software development and automation for infrastructure modernization, designing fault-tolerant and highly available systems, and proactively managing infrastructure changes. The role involves performance tuning, troubleshooting, adhering to engineering standards, developing automation tools, building scalable and resilient infrastructure using IaC, providing infrastructure insights, maintaining documentation, and participating in on-call support. The engineer will work with relational databases like PostgreSQL, MySQL, Amazon RDS, and Amazon RDS Aurora in an Agile environment.
Must have:
  • Build and maintain highly available relational database systems
  • Leverage software development and automation
  • Design fault-tolerant, distributed database infrastructure
  • Proactive infrastructure planning and implementation
  • Performance tuning and troubleshooting
  • Develop automation and tooling
  • Build scalable and resilient infrastructure
  • Experience with AWS cloud infrastructure
Good to have:
  • Experience in DRE/SRE role
  • CI/CD pipeline experience
  • Azure and GCP experience
  • Configuration management experience (Ansible, Chef)

Job Details

Job Summary:

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 maximize 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 for Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology:

  • Building the future of Disney’s media business: DE&E Technologists are designing and building the infrastructure that will power Disney’s 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 execute groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms and enhance how audiences experience sports, entertainment & news.

Engineering Services designs, builds, and sustains technology that powers DE&E Technology’s worldwide content production and distribution platforms. In doing so, they contribute to a series of cross-functional services and technologies, including Quality Assurance, Data Analytics, Software Development, Broadcast Infrastructure, and Networking & Security. 

Job Summary:

The individual in this position will join the Data Stores team in an exciting and fast-paced environment where they will help build and maintain highly available relational database systems operating across multiple cloud environments.  These databases support many of the systems powering DE&ET’s digital media supply chain and consumer facing products.

We’re looking for an individual who can apply software engineering principles to database engineering and administration to build processes and automation to help deliver infrastructure faster, safer, more consistently and with the right level of observability required to operate at scale.

Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:

  • Responsible for building, deploying, and ensuring all DE&ET database infrastructure is available 24/7/365.

  • Leverage software development and automation to design, modernize, and deliver database infrastructure.

  • Analyze, design, and deploy fault-tolerant, distributed, and highly available database infrastructure.

  • Proactively plan and implement infrastructure changes through capacity forecasting, software release cycles, and right sizing.

  • Provide database expertise through performance tuning, troubleshooting and administration.

  • Develop, enhance, and adhere to engineering and administration standards.

  • Develop automation and tooling to increase operational efficiency while ensuring system reliability and security.

  • Build infrastructure and systems for scalability, resiliency, availability, and recovery though infrastructure as code and configuration management.

  • Provide relevant insights of data store infrastructure through metrics, monitoring, and alerting.

  • Maintain thorough and well-written documentation.

  • Participate in live event support and on-call rotation.

Required Education, Experience/Skills/Training:

Basic Qualifications 

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

  • 3+ years of related work experience with relational database systems such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, Amazon RDS, and Amazon RDS Aurora.

  • Experience working in Agile software development.

  • Experience with source control management tools (Git, GitLab, GitHub).

  • Intermediate to advanced level of expertise in one or more programming languages such as Python, Java, or Go.

  • Experience running, deploying, and maintaining production cloud infrastructure in Amazon Web Services.

  • General understanding and experience with Linux operating system, network, and containers.

  • Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation).

  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications 

  • Experience operating within a database reliability engineering (DRE) and/or systems reliability engineering (SRE) role.

  • Experience building a proper path to production leveraging multiple lifecycles, testing, integration, and CI/CD pipelines.

  • Experience running, deploying, and maintaining production cloud infrastructure in Azure and GCP.

  • Experience with configuration management (Ansible, Chef).

#DisneyTECH


The hiring range for this position in New York or Seattle is $120,300 to $161,300 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.

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The key to our success…. The Cast, Crew, Imagineers and Employees who honor Disney’s rich legacy by stretching the bounds of imagination to create the never-before-seen, bringing unparalleled entertainment experiences to people of all ages. Begin a career that delivers unparalleled creative content and experiences to audiences around the world and just imagine the stories you could be part of…

What is #LifeAtDisney like? It’s a series of magical moments with cast members and employees developing and telling our stories in the most innovative ways. Whether it’s a day spent as a Disney VoluntEAR, or celebrating the release of a new interactive experience, retail product or movie, our days are filled with the knowledge that we are creating entertainment experiences the whole family can enjoy. Follow @DisneyCareers on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram for a peek behind-the-curtain, and discover how you could connect to a world of stories with Disney!

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