Lead Software Engineer
Company: Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology
Location: New York
Posted on: October 11, 2024
Job Description:
Disney Entertainment & ESPN TechnologyOn 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 our 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
enhance 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 believe you'd love
working here:
- Building the future of Disney's media: DE&E Technologists
are designing and building the infrastructure that will power our
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 implement groundbreaking products
and techniques that shape industry norms and improve how audiences
experience sports, entertainment & news.Media Engineering is an
innovative organization that is focused on providing the best
possible video playback experience, art, and metadata to customers
around the world, powered by exceptional technology. This strategic
work requires streamlining and repurposing technology across
different business and distribution channels - including streaming,
linear, and theatrical - so that technology can ebb and flow across
the needs of the business.Live and Linear Tooling Team (LILOX)This
team is responsible for the management of Live and Linear airings
across the D+ and Hulu spaces. This means ingesting airings as CNF
from Metal, managing linear schedules to ensure no gaps or overlaps
between airings on a single channel, contract resolution for
blackout or features such as replay/lookback, as well as tools for
the management of airings, live events, and stream health and
fallback logic.Responsibilities
- Own and contribute to engineering solutioning of complex model
scoring, quality scoring and model deployment, including road
mapping with an emphasis on ensuring high quality engineering
processes, sufficient business impact and scalability across all
practices.
- Design and build robust software applications, utilizing
software engineering and machine learning expertise to deliver high
performance solutions.
- Craft web applications specific to the managing of live and
linear scheduling for the DTC services
- Prioritize tasks within a project to deliver high value
initiatives, while anticipating and mitigating potential risk
wherever possible.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product and
engineering, to identify opportunities, business impact and
technical requirements.
- Act in people supervisory capacity and serve as a technical
leader, setting best practices and leading architectural
discussions within the team.
- Mentor, empower, and provide career growth opportunities for
team members.
- Manage AWS infrastructure supporting the EPG and scheduling
ecosystems
- Work on improving system scale and throughput for handling high
concurrency
- Contribute to a culture of collaboration and innovation
- Provide on-call rotational support as neededBasic
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems,
Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable
field of study, and/or equivalent experience
- 7+ years of software development experience and proficiency in
Java and AWS technologies and cloud infrastructurePreferred
Qualifications
- Experience integrating media players into web applications
- Solid understanding of web accessibility fundamentals.
- Strong knowledge to web standards and new technologies.
- Understanding of async programming models (events, callbacks,
promises, async/await) and threading/concurrency
- Understanding of source control concepts and systems, CI/CD
pipelines and exposure to Git
- Experience with build and deployment technologies such as
Jenkins and Docker. Experience with messaging technologies (e.g.,
Kafka, Kinesis, SQS, etc.)#DISNEYTECH
The hiring range for this position in Seattle, WA and in New York
City, NY is $156,292 to $209,660 per year; the hiring range for
this position in Santa Monica/Burbank/Glendale/L.A., California and
in Bristol, Connecticut is $149,240 to $200,200; and the hiring
range for this position in San Francisco, California is $163,426 to
$219,230 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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