Senior Software Engineer - Identity

3 Months ago • 5 Years + • Software Development & Engineering • $136,038 PA - $199,870 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Senior Software Engineer in Disney's Identity organization, you'll drive the simplification and streamlining of services. You'll make technical and architectural decisions, influence roadmaps, and collaborate with Product, Project Management, and Engineering. Responsibilities include designing, developing, testing, deploying, and supporting microservices and lambdas in a multi-region cloud environment using Agile methodologies. You will also mentor engineers and collaborate with stakeholders. The team focuses on building and running high-traffic, globally replicated systems for Disney's consumer-facing applications, ensuring API stability, performance, and security.
Must have:
  • 5+ years experience
  • JVM languages (Java, Scala, Kotlin)
  • Cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure)
  • Agile methodologies
  • Microservices development
  • API design and development
Good to have:
  • OOP and FP best practices
  • AWS, Terraform, IaC
  • Mentoring experience

Job Details

Job Summary:

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.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be responsible for driving a mission to simplify and streamline services throughout the Identity organization. You will be empowered to make technical and architectural decisions, and to influence the roadmap for your squad and the wider team, working in partnership with your peers across Product, Project Management and Engineering.

You will contribute to and be part of an engaging, dynamic and inclusive engineering organization, grounded in scrum and agile practices, CI/CD, great collaboration, delivering solutions grounded in quality and motivated by a commitment to continuous learning and improvement. Identity Engineering delivers Consumer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) capabilities across The Walt Disney Company (TWDC) including but not limited to: D+, Hulu, ESPN+, and Parks. Identity Engineering squads build and run high-traffic and globally replicated systems which form an integral and visible part of every user’s journey at Disney properties.

The Identity Platform Consolidation squad is responsible for making sure consumer-facing application programming interfaces (APIs) are stable, performant, and can meet the broad needs of the business, while maintaining modern security standards. We are a mission-driven team working with squads throughout Disney to collaborate on improved solutions.

Responsibilities

  • Contribute to the design, development, testing, deployment, and support of stateful microservices and lambdas in a multi-region cloud environment.
  • Use Agile methodologies such as Scrum, Kanban, and Scrumban to plan day-to-day activities and drive continuous improvement over time.
  • Mentor engineers within your squad (and beyond!) to help them improve their technical ability and build their profile within and outside of the organization.
  • Collaborate with your squad, Product Managers, Designers, QA, Operations, and other stakeholders to understand requirements and articulate technical decisions and outcomes.

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.
  • Minimum of 5 years related work experience.
  • Familiarity with at least one of the following Java Virtual Machine (JVM) languages: Java, Scala, or Kotlin.
  • Familiarity with at least one of the following cloud providers: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Compute (GCP), or Microsoft Azure.
  • A willingness to learn and experiment with new technologies.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Familiarity with both object oriented programming (OOP) and functional programming (FP) best practices.
  • Familiarity with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Terraform, and infrastructure as code (IaC) best practices.


The hiring range for this position in Seattle, WA and in New York, NY is $142,516 to $191,180 per year; the hiring range for this position in Santa Monica is $136,038 to $182,490; and the hiring range for this position in San Francisco, California is $148,994 to $199,870 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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