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Disney Cruise Line

Senior Software Engineer

Disney Cruise Line, Seattle, Washington, us, 98127

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Technology is at the heart of Disneys 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 Disneys 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 Companys media portfolio to advance the technological foundation and consumer media touch points serving millions of people around the world. A few reasons why we think youd love working for Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology Building the future of Disneys media business:

DE&E Technologists are designing and building the infrastructure that will power Disneys 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.

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 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 one. We are looking for a Senior 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. On a daily basis you should bring: A willingness and desire to effectively communicate and collaborate across teams and systems.

A sense of ownership of the projects delivered by your team and department

A passion for mentoring, learning, and adapting to a very dynamic and fast paced environment

An understanding of how to define technical and operational metrics to measure system health and to manage risk.

A keen eye for potential optimizations and enhancements to our services

Kindness and pragmatic optimism.

Your unique view and experience

What You Will Do: Contribute to the design, development, testing, deployment, and support of stateful microservices and lambdas in a multi-region cloud environment.

Promote and support Agile methodologies such as Scrum, Kanban, and Scrumban by actively participating in regular ceremonies such as stand-up, retrospectives and sprint planning.

Mentor engineers within your squad (and beyond!) to help them improve their technical ability and build their profile within and outside of the organization.

Collaborate with your squad, Product Managers, Designers, QA, Operations, and other stakeholders to understand requirements and articulate technical decisions and outcomes.

What You Will Bring: Basic Qualifications Minimum of 5+ years of software engineering experience

Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience.

Understanding of message based distributed, scalable, and resilient systems

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.

Preferred Qualifications Desire to work in a start-up, fast-growth, or rapid-change environment

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

Familiarity with the Scala programming language and popular frameworks such as: Cats, Cats Effect, ZIO, and http4s.

Familiarity with both object oriented programming (OOP) and functional programming (FP) best practices.

Familiarity with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Terraform, and infrastructure as code (IaC) best practices.

#DISNEYTECH The hiring range for this position in Seattle, WA is $145,400.00 to $195,000.00 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidates 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. #J-18808-Ljbffr