Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology
Location
Santa Monica, CA | United States
Job description
Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology
On 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 Disney’s 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 maximize 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 think 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 enhance how audiences experience sports, entertainment & news
Media Engineering
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.
Disney's Supply Chain Ingest team is seeking a Software Developer who is sharp, motivated and will help build the technology backbone for our current and future products. The team is responsible for the end-to-end technology needed to acquire video-on-demand, rich metadata, live, and linear content from over 1000 streaming providers and deliver the highest quality streaming services to tens of millions of users. As a part of this team, you would use technologies like React(js), SpringBoot(java), Redis, Kafka and AWS resources such as S3, DynamoDB, SQS, Elasticache, Elasticsearch, etc.
What You’ll Do:
Champion engineering best practices to write well constructed and easy to maintain code while collaborating with product managers and other team leads to deliver business functionality.
Propose robust solutions for the content management platform services and interfaces.
Design well-architected solutions and build iteratively into systems while maintaining the best agile practices; and write defensive and robust tests.
Communicate status with peers and/or managers and present views and opinions patiently.
Partner with project management to release and launch production quality software, lead a project from vision to completion.
Mentor other developers on the team on standards, process, and best practices.
Minimum Qualifications:
A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
3+ years of software development experience, and proficiency in Javascript and Java.
Expertise with core Computer Science fundamentals, including Object-Oriented programming, data structures and algorithms (hashing, trees, graphs, search etc.)
Fundamental understanding of relational, key-value document, and graph databases
An enjoyment for going deep on performance tuning, and a love of owning a problem end-to-end.
A desire to relentlessly pursue innovative ways on how to tackle problems and improve systems.
Nice-to-haves
Curiosity for streaming Video-on-demand, and Live Event delivery software and infrastructure
Experience with Distributed Systems and Event-driven Architecture
Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
Passion for Live Sports, News, and Data!
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