Backend Engineer, News Distribution Platform

The Walt Disney Company; Glendale (CA); On-site; USD 118,000 - 158,000; Full time

Job summary

The Walt Disney Company is seeking a Product Software Engineer for the News Distribution Platform in California. You will design, develop and test backend services in Go and Java, scale cloud infrastructure, and collaborate with product, editorial, and engineering teams to deliver reliable news experiences.

You will drive testing, code reviews, CI/CD, and observability, participate in on-call rotations, and champion best practices while delivering robust technical solutions for daily and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent work experience.
• 3+ years of experience building and operating highly available, distributed backend systems in production.
• Experience developing large-scale backend services using Golang (preferred) and/or Java.

Responsibilities

• Effectively communicate with stakeholders on project progress.
• Design and develop new solutions and drive alignment across engineering and product teams.
• Determine the most efficient means to sufficiently test new code: unit tests, integration tests, performance tests, etc.
• Follow best practices for on-call responsibilities such as deployments, monitoring, and investigating incidents
• Use logs, monitoring tools etc. and work with developers to determine root causes across distributed components during production incidents.
• Participate in code reviews for members of the team, bearing a sense of responsibility for approved code.
• Partner with product, editorial, and engineering stakeholders to translate business requirements into robust technical solutions.

Skills

Golang

Java

AWS

CI/CD

Observability

Agile/Scrum

Git

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Git

AWS

Docker

Job description

The Walt Disney Company is seeking a Product Software Engineer for the News Distribution Platform in California. You will design, develop and test backend services in Go and Java, scale cloud infrastructure, and collaborate with product, editorial, and engineering teams to deliver reliable news experiences.

You will drive testing, code reviews, CI/CD, and observability, participate in on-call rotations, and champion best practices while delivering robust technical solutions for daily and