Sr Software Engineer
Aplicar ahora Aplique más tarde Job ID 10129775 Ubicación Seattle, Washington, Estados Unidos / Santa Mónica, California, Estados Unidos / Glendale, California, Estados Unidos / San Francisco, California, Estados Unidos / Nueva York, Nueva York, Estados Unidos Business Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology Fecha de publicación 02/10/2025Detalles del empleo:
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.
The Personalization and Recommendations team builds systems that provide distinctly tailored experiences to viewers across our streaming products around the globe. We use Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence to create powerful content discovery experiences across web, mobile, and living room devices. Through the development of scalable, intelligent, and responsive systems, our team is at the forefront of positively differentiating our viewer experiences each and every day. We are on a mission to connect viewers with content they love.
The Data and Infrastructure team is central to that mission: we provide the data to our Machine Learning models and downstream client teams that enable the most relevant content to viewer matching possible. Our challenge is to source and provide the highest quality data to feed into our recommendation systems, and build out the infrastructure required to deliver personalized data on every request, every time for our hundreds of millions of subscribers around the world.
As a Senior Software Engineer in this role, you’ll apply your passion for data, along with your previous experience working with large scale, low-latency backend distributed systems and data stores to help our team meet this goal. You’ll collaborate closely with machine learning engineers, data engineers and software engineers, as well as project managers and product managers to create the best experiences possible for our viewers.
If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you!
What You’ll Do:
Design, build and maintain large-scale, low-latency data stores that power personalized content recommendations at global scale
Develop and optimize backend APIs and services that reliably deliver personalization data to downstream clients for our hundreds of millions of streaming subscribers
Craft and evolve data production and ingestion pipelines to ensure timely, performant and economical persistence of foundational personalization data
Collaborate with machine learning engineers to design and implement elegant solutions used for feature storage, retrieval, and online inference
Champion operational excellence by leading observability best practices and participating in an on-call rotation for our tier one critical services
What You’ll Bring:
Basic Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or related field), or equivalent work experience
5+ years of related experience working with large scale distributed systems and data at scale
Strong grasp of computer science fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, design patterns, etc.)
Strong programming skills in Java, Python, or comparable object-oriented language
Hands-on experience with NoSQL data stores (e.g. DynamoDB, Cassandra, ScyllaDB, or other)
Familiarity with Databricks or equivalent large-scale data processing platforms
Demonstrated knowledge of caching technologies
Demonstrated knowledge of operating within a Public Cloud Provider (e.g. AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)
Demonstrated knowledge of source control systems and CI/CD pipelines
Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
Preferred Qualifications
Experience designing performant database schemas at scale
Proficiency working in Databricks to build data pipelines
Experience with distributed data processing frameworks, such as Apache Spark
Demonstrated knowledge of messaging technologies (e.g. Kafka, Kinesis, SQS, or other)
Familiarity with recommendation systems industry architectures and best practices
Hands-on experience using AI to accelerate design and development
The hiring range for this position in Glendale, CA is $138,900 - $186,200, for Santa Monica, CA is $138,900 - $186,200, for Seattle, WA is $145,400 - $195,000, and for New York, NY is $145,400 - $195,000, and for 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.
Acerca de Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology:
En Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology, fusionamos imaginación e innovación para reinventar las formas en las que las personas disfrutan e interactúan con los cuentos y los productos más queridos del mundo. Nuestro trabajo tiene un gran alcance y es sumamente sofisticado. Brindamos experiencias increíbles, transformamos el futuro de los medios de comunicación y creamos productos y plataformas que permiten la conexión entre las personas de cualquier lugar del mundo y los cuentos y los deportes que más les gustan.
Disney tiene la capacidad de combinar tecnología de primer nivel con una creatividad inigualable, y eso nos hace únicos. Es la esencia de nuestro pasado, presente y futuro. Somos narradores e innovadores. Creadores y constructores. Artistas e ingenieros.
Acerca de The Walt Disney Company:
The Walt Disney Company, junto con sus subsidiarias y afiliadas, es una empresa internacional diversificada líder en entretenimiento familiar y medios de comunicación que incluye tres segmentos comerciales principales: Disney Entertainment, ESPN y Disney Experiences. Desde sus humildes comienzos como estudio de dibujos animados en la década de 1920 hasta su reconocido nombre en la industria del entretenimiento en la actualidad, Disney continúa con orgullo su legado de crear historias y experiencias de clase mundial para toda la familia. Las historias, los personajes y las experiencias de Disney llegan a consumidores e invitados de todos los rincones del mundo. Con operaciones en más de 40 países, nuestros empleados y miembros del elenco trabajan juntos para crear experiencias de entretenimiento que sean apreciadas a nivel local y global.
Este puesto es en Disney Streaming Technology LLC , que forma parte de una empresa comercial que denominamos Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology.
Disney Streaming Technology LLC es un empleador que ofrece igualdad de oportunidades. Los solicitantes recibirán consideración para el empleo independientemente de su raza, religión, color, sexo, orientación sexual, género, identidad de género, expresión de género, nacionalidad, ascendencia, edad, estado civil, condición de militar o veterano, afección médica, información genética o discapacidad, o cualquier otro fundamento prohibido por la ley federal, estatal o local. Disney defiende un entorno empresarial donde las ideas y decisiones de todas las personas nos ayudan a crecer, innovar, crear las mejores historias y ser relevantes en un mundo en constante evolución.