Sr Software Engineer bei Disney

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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.

Product Engineering is a unified team responsible for the engineering of Disney Entertainment & ESPN digital and streaming products and platforms. This includes product engineering, media engineering, quality assurance, engineering behind personalization, commerce, lifecycle, and identity.

Job Summary:

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Core Content Technologies engineering team you will build and manage systems that provide dynamic content management for many of Disney Entertainment’s brands including ABC Entertainment, ABC News, ABC OTV, Disney, Marvel, National Geographic, Studios. This group also owns content ingestion from many internal and 3rd party sources, publishing pipelines and complex image services, You will help set the tone for a fast paced, passionate squad charged with unlocking highly engaging interactive functionality at high scale.

You will apply your proven engineering chops to help contribute to the design, development, test and deployment of first-rate, innovative software solutions. You will also contribute to a high level of operational excellence for systems underpinning applications used by millions of Disney Entertainment fans every day.

You will be challenged to work at a scale most never approach and be rewarded by a job you love!

Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:

• Contribute to the design, development, testing, deployment, and support of core software in a cloud environment.
• Mentor engineers within your squad (and beyond!) to help them improve their technical ability and build their profile within and outside of the organization.

Required Education, Experience/Skills/Training:

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience
• 3+ 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.
• Collaborate efficiently with product management, technical program management, operations, and other engineering teams.
• Strong communication skills and a desire to share your knowledge with team members and others at Disney.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working on highly scalable, real-time software platforms
• Extensive experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) or similar cloud service
• Experience implementing and optimizing complex cloud software installations and infrastructure

Required Education  

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field

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