Disney Direct to Consumer
Location
Morrisville, NC | United States
Job description
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 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 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 is an innovative organization that is passionate about providing the best possible video playback experience, art, and metadata to customers worldwide, powered by exceptional technology. This 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.
The Experience Delivery team within Media Engineering builds high-performance globally distributed critical path services that serve as the source of truth for a wide variety of parameters that are critical to understanding and evolving the user’s playback experience. We also provide apis for a wide range of session level data relied on for operational insights across the wider organization. We work in a highly collaborative yet fundamentally self directed environment striving to realize business objectives with pragmatic and robust solutions.
As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in both the technical direction of our projects and the development of our team's skills. Your responsibilities will include the design and implementation of complex systems, ensuring the successful delivery of high-quality solutions, and contributing to the broader goals of the team. If you enjoy streaming media, are interested in live sports and entertainment, or just want to join a fast-growing team that plays an integral part of the revenue producing arm of a company, then our team is for you.
Technologies we use include Go, PostgresQL, Kubernetes, AWS (CloudFront, Lambda, Kinesis, Aurora, many others) and more. Experience in these areas is highly valued, but not required.
Responsibilities:
Own the design and development of robust, scalable, and efficient backend solutions
Serve as an active owner of team remit proactively identifying and vying for improvements
Curate nuanced well reasoned opinions from first principles to guide team decisions
Collaborate closely with other engineering teams, and stakeholders
Lead by example, promoting good coding practices and continuous learning within the team
Be an excellent partner to team members across all levels
Qualifications:
Successfully lead and shipped projects for mission critical systems
Demonstrated success operating in self directed environments
Track record of using empirical evidence to make decisions
Curious by nature with a proven passion for learning
History of garnering influence and buy-in through excellent communication, empathy, and reason
Deeply pragmatic able to identify high leverage solutions without being dogmatic in approach
Experience with distributed systems preferably within a cloud environment
Familiar with the technologies we use
Required:
Bachelor’s degree in computer science-related field or equivalent work experience
About The Walt Disney Company:
The Walt Disney Company, together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading diversified international family entertainment and media enterprise with the following business segments: media networks, parks and resorts, studio entertainment, consumer products and interactive media. From humble beginnings as a cartoon studio in the 1920s to its preeminent name in the entertainment industry today, Disney proudly continues its legacy of creating world-class stories and experiences for every member of the family. Disney’s stories, characters and experiences reach consumers and guests from every corner of the globe. With operations in more than 40 countries, our employees and cast members work together to create entertainment experiences that are both universally and locally cherished.
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