Lead Software Engineer

Company: Disney Streaming
Location: Mercer Island
Posted on: June 25, 2022

Job Description:

Disney Streaming encompasses the teams behind the Hulu, Disney+, ESPN+, and Star+ streaming services within Disney's Media & Entertainment Distribution group. We sit at the intersection between entertainment, sports, and technology and seek to connect viewers with the stories they love, while pushing the streaming industry forward with consumer-first innovation.The Content and Experience Delivery organization is composed of teams on a mission to deliver the best browse experience to our viewers across all of the Disney Streaming brands.The Experience Orchestration Services (EOS) team is at the forefront of that mission! We build critical services that deliver layout information and content metadata directly to end-user devices. Our challenge is to provide low latency and high availability at scale for millions of users, with an interface that can keep up with our constantly-growing streaming applications. As a Lead Software Engineer, you will collaborate closely with engineers, project managers, and product managers to find the best solution for our viewers. You will drive projects end-to-end: designing the initial solution; finding alignment with stakeholders; execution of the necessary code; and overseeing the deployment of services to production. Members of the team look to your code and documentation as examples of What To Do. You value good-faith collaboration, driving best practices, and promoting excellence on your team. If this sounds like you, we would love to hear from you!

#disneytechResponsibilities : You'll join a hardworking group of engineers who build and manage systems that publish data to Disney Streaming's internal and edge-facing services - ultimately powering Disney Streaming clients running on smart TVs, smartphones, gaming consoles, FireTV, Apple TV, Roku, and others.
We're passionate about data - just like you! You'll apply your experience with database technologies to construct distributed, large-scale services.

• Actively participate in daily stand-ups and other scrum ceremonies.
• Design new solutions and drive alignment across engineering and product teams.
• Expertly break down work at the epic level, setting project milestones with reasonable deadlines.
• Prioritize work within a project to deliver on the most necessary or urgent requirements.
• Anticipate and mitigate risk on projects.
• Effectively communicate with stakeholders on project progress.
• Write code to implement new features or optimize existing services.
• Determine the most efficient means to sufficiently test new code: unit tests, integration tests, performance tests, etc.
• Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation for our tier-1 critical services facing millions of users worldwide.
• Use logs, monitoring tools, and work with developers to determine root causes across distributed components.
• Set best practices for the team for on-call responsibilities such as deployments, monitoring, and investigating incidents
• Perform code reviews for members of the team, bearing a sense of responsibility for approved code.
• Coach and mentor teammates in an open, respectful, flexible, empathetic manner. Help onboard new team members.Basic Qualifications :
  • 7+ years of related experience crafting and operating backend services.
  • 1+ years of related experience crafting and operating large-scale, high-availability backend services.
  • Demonstrated knowledge crafting and operating JVM services.
  • Proven track record of designing and driving consensus on backend architectures.
  • 1+ years of related experience utilizing caching technologies.
  • Demonstrated knowledge of asynchronous programming.
  • Demonstrated knowledge of object-oriented programming patterns.
  • Demonstrated knowledge of functional programming patterns.
  • Demonstrated knowledge of source control systems and CI/CD pipelines.
  • 1+ years experience operating within a Public Cloud Provider (e.g., AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)
  • Experience with observability tools for metrics, logging, and monitoring (e.g., Datadog, Splunk, Grafana)
  • Demonstrated knowledge of AGILE/Scrum practices.
  • Skilled at work breakdown and task estimation.
  • Strong communication skills and a desire to share your knowledge with team members and others across Disney Streaming.Preferred Qualifications:
    • Demonstrated knowledge of messaging technologies (e.g., Kafka, Kinesis, SQS, etc.)Required Education : BS in Computer Science is preferred or equivalent degree is acceptable Additional Information : Working hybrid from our office in Seattle, WA is preferred or a willingness to work Remote in Pacific Time Zone is acceptable

Keywords: Disney Streaming, Seattle , Lead Software Engineer, IT / Software / Systems , Mercer Island, Washington