Disney is looking for a Software Engineer II to join the API Services team within Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology. In this role, you will build highly available, high-throughput services critical to delivering content to subscribers, focusing on big data and backend engineering.
What You'll Do
- Be part of a team of big data and backend engineers to deliver high-value projects.
- Build components of a large-scale data platform for real-time and batch processing.
- Own features of big data applications to fit evolving business needs.
- Participate in building the next-generation service platform on cloud-based big data infrastructure.
- Continuously improve performance, scalability, and availability.
- Participate in sprint planning, backlog refinement, and retrospectives.
- Build automated tests to ensure application reliability.
- Participate in code reviews.
What We're Looking For
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent training or work experience.
- 3+ years of experience in a technical field.
- Ability to work with team members and project management to understand requirements and provide technical solutions.
- Comfort with ambiguity and being part of conversations with discordant views.
- Intermediate understanding of software development fundamentals and architecture.
- Experience with Java and Scala, and associated technologies.
- Experience building and maintaining highly automated systems using tools like Jenkins, Cloud Formation, Terraform, Kubernetes, and Spinnaker.
Nice to Have
- Interest in or experience with web technologies and web system architecture.
- Knowledge or experience with AWS products and services (EC2, S3, Lambda, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, CloudFront, etc.) or other cloud providers.
Technical Stack
- Languages: Scala, Java, Python
- Data Processing: Apache Flink, Spark, Databricks
- Cloud (AWS): ECS, Lambda, DynamoDB, Kinesis, CloudFront, WAF
Team & Environment
You will join the API Services team within the Product Engineering organization.
Benefits & Compensation
- Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits.
- A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided.
- Compensation varies by location: New York, NY: $123,000.00 - $165,000.00; San Francisco, CA: $128,700.00 - $172,500.00; Santa Monica, CA: $117,500.00 - $157,500.00.
Work Mode
This is an onsite role located in New York, NY; 2450 Broadway, CA; or Market St, CA.
Disney is an equal opportunity employer.
