Senior, Software Engineer

BUILD SOMETHING BIGGER THAN YOURSELF

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.

How will you contribute to our magical experience?

This team is responsible for the management of Live and Linear airings across the Disney+ and Hulu spaces. This means ingesting airings as CNF from Metal, managing linear schedules to ensure no gaps or overlaps between airings on a single channel, contract resolution for blackout or features such as replay/lookback, as well as tools for the management of airings, live events, and stream health and fallback logic.

The Senior Software Engineer will be responsible for:

• Craft web applications specific to the managing of live and linear scheduling for the DTC services.
• Manage AWS infrastructure supporting the EPG and scheduling ecosystems.
• Work on improving system scale and throughput for handling high concurrency.
• Contribute to a culture of collaboration and innovation.
• Build quality products.
• Provide on-call rotational support as needed.

What we need from you to be part of this story:

• Degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 6+ years developing software products.
• Experience in programming with Java or any other Object-oriented programming language.
• Advanced level of English.
• Experience with AWS and cloud infrastructure.
• Media player integration in web apps.
• Knowledge of web accessibility and standards.
• Familiar with async programming (promises, async/await, etc.).
• Understanding of concurrency and threading.
• Skilled in Git, CI/CD, Jenkins, Docker (is a plus).
• Experience with messaging systems (Kafka, Kinesis, SQS) is a plus.