Sr Software Engineer

2 Months ago • 5-8 Years • Backend Development • $145,400 PA - $203,900 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

The Content Experience Delivery organization at Disney Streaming seeks a Senior Software Engineer for its Hydration Orchestration (H2O) team. This team builds critical services delivering layout information and content metadata to end-user devices, ensuring low latency and high availability at scale. Responsibilities include active participation in scrum ceremonies, designing solutions, collaborating with various teams, breaking down project work, prioritizing tasks, writing and testing code (unit, integration, performance), participating in 24/7 on-call rotation, troubleshooting issues, following CI/CD best practices, performing code reviews, and mentoring junior team members. The role requires strong backend service development expertise and experience with large-scale, high-availability systems.
Must have:
  • 5+ years backend service experience
  • JVM service expertise
  • Strong CS fundamentals
  • Backend architecture design
  • Caching and OOP knowledge
  • Source control & CI/CD
  • Public Cloud experience
  • Agile/Scrum experience
Good to have:
  • Large-scale service experience
  • Messaging technologies (Kafka, Kinesis, etc.)
  • Asynchronous programming
  • Functional programming
  • Observability tools (Datadog, Splunk, etc.)

Job Details

Job Summary:

The Content Experience Delivery organization is composed of teams on a mission to deliver the best browse experience to our viewers across all of the Disney Streaming brands. 

 

The Hydration Orchestration (H2O) team is at the forefront of that mission! We build critical services that deliver layout information and content metadata directly to end-user devices. Our challenge is to provide low latency and high availability at scale for millions of users, with an interface that can keep up with our constantly-growing streaming applications. We're a fast-paced, dynamic, collaborative and fun team, and looking forward to finding out more about you! 

 

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will collaborate closely with engineers, project managers, and product managers to find the best solution for our viewers. Your code is easy to read, well-tested, and drives best practices on the team. Your documentation is clear and concise, quick to drive alignment. You value good-faith collaboration and having excellent relationships with our partner teams.  

 

Responsibilities:  

  • Actively participate in daily stand-ups and other scrum ceremonies. 
  • Design new solutions and drive alignment across engineering and product teams. 
  • Collaborate with team members to design new solutions and drive alignment across partner teams. 
  • Break down project work into tasks with reasonable time estimates. 
  • Prioritize work within a project to deliver on the most necessary or urgent requirements. 
  • Communicate with team members on progress. 
  • Write code to implement new features or optimize existing services. 
  • Test code through various means: unit tests, integration tests, performance tests, etc. 
  • Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation for our tier-1 critical services facing millions of users worldwide.  
  • Use logs, monitoring tools, and work with developers to determine root causes across distributed components. 
  • Follow industry best practices for service operations regarding CI/CD, monitoring, and investigation of incidents. 
  • Perform code reviews for members of the team, bearing a sense of responsibility for approved code. 
  • Mentor team members in areas of expertise. Help to onboard new team members. 

 

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 of related experience crafting and operating backend services. 
  • Demonstrated knowledge crafting and operating JVM services. 
  • Strong grasp of computer science fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, databases, etc). 
  • Able to design and drive consensus on backend architectures. 
  • Demonstrated knowledge of caching technologies. 
  • Demonstrated knowledge of object-oriented programming patterns. 
  • Demonstrated knowledge of source control systems and CI/CD pipelines. 
  • Demonstrated knowledge of operating within a Public Cloud Provider (e.g., AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud) 
  • Demonstrated knowledge of AGILE/Scrum practices. 
  • Skilled at work breakdown and task estimation. 
  • Strong communication skills, both written and verbal. 

 

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Minimum of 3 years of related experience crafting and operating large-scale, high-availability backend services utilizing various database and messaging technologies. 
  • Demonstrated knowledge of messaging technologies (e.g., Kafka, Kinesis, SQS, etc.) 
  • Demonstrated knowledge of asynchronous programming. 
  • Experience with functional programming patterns. 
  • Experience with observability tools for metrics, logging, and monitoring (e.g. Datadog, Splunk, Grafana). 

#DISNEYTECH

 


The hiring range for this position in Los Angeles, CA is $138,900 - $186,200, in Seattle, WA is $145,400 - $195,000 and in San Francisco, CA is $152,100 - $203,900. 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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