Job Posting Title:
Senior Principal Software Engineer
Req ID:
10103076
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 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.
User Foundations
The User Foundations team builds critical User Capabilities that are shared across all experiences on the streaming services: Disney+, Hulu, ESPN+ and Star+. We implement reliable, high-throughput services and pipelines for gathering information about our users,and delivering personalized experiences. We’re a fast-paced, dynamic, collaborative and fun team, and are looking for someone who can slot right in and start delivering from day 1.
Job Summary:
We are looking for a Senior Principal Software Engineer who is passionate about developing high performance platforms. To be successful in this role, you need effective communication and collaboration skills, a passion for learning and trying new things, and a strong foundational understanding of programming and computer science.
As a member of our team, you will apply your knowledge and skills to help us deliver scalable, performant, maintainable, and testable software.
Things you’ll be working on:
Identity patterns that can help the teams scale, create proposals, and drive adoption of those patterns
Challenge current architectural choices while collaborating to solve problems in innovative ways
Drive best engineering practices to write well-constructed and easy-to-maintain code, defensive and robust tests.
Lead through metrics - understand application performance and costs and push for better results.
Work with Product Management to help translate business requirements into Technical solutions - drive the delivery of key projects across the various cross functional teams
Lead architecture group to inspire change across the organization as well as partner organizations
Represent Disney streaming in various internal and external conferences, blogs, mentor Senior engineers
What to bring
12+ years of related experience crafting large-scale, highly available Java services utilizing various database and messaging technologies.
Strong programming skills in Java and other object-oriented languages, and a strong grasp of computer science fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, databases, etc.)
Experience using source control systems and CI/CD pipelines.
An ability to work both independently and collaboratively.
Champion cross-team projects.
Coach and mentor other specialists on the team to ensure that all software utilizes Hulu and industry best practices for data persistence and real-time streaming applications.
Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:
Develop software designs and specifications
Develops and writes code to meet design specifications
Test, document and deploy code
Provide technical mentorship, and code quality assurance
Support, maintain and break-fix production products
Work with a team to design solutions to various interesting and challenging problems
Be a champion for engineering excellence
Become and stay an expert in current and emerging technologies and tools
Required Education, Experience/Skills/Training:
Basic Qualifications
12+ years of software engineering experience
Understanding of message based distributed, scalable, and resilient systems
Desire to work in a start-up, fast-growth, or rapid-change environment
Experience working on diverse teams
Problem-solving skills to identify the root cause and implement the fix.
Solid communication skills – written, and oral
Ability to be flexible, adapting to changing priorities
Fluent in multiple programming languages and an expert in at least one of: JavaScript, Python, Java
Experience transforming requirements into software design, documentation and software.
Ability to coach teammates to become better engineers
Ability to lead technical projects
Experience with:
SpringBoot and related Spring projects
Non-relational database technologies e.g. DynamoDB
Redis and/or MemCache
Apache Kafka and/or Kinesis
Terraform, Docker and Kubernetes
Expert with at least one of: AWS, Azure, GCP
Experience building, testing, and tuning distributed systems
Required Education
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience
The hiring range for this position in Santa Monica, CA is $223.7K - 300K, and for Seattle, WA is $234.4K - 314.3K and for San Francisco, CA is $245.1K - 328.6K. 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.
Job Posting Segment:
Product & Data Engineering
Job Posting Primary Business:
PDE - Engagement Experiences & Platforms
Primary Job Posting Category:
Software Engineer
Employment Type:
Full time
Primary City, State, Region, Postal Code:
Santa Monica, CA, USA
Alternate City, State, Region, Postal Code:
USA - CA - Market St, USA - WA - 925 4th Ave
Date Posted:
2024-10-29
