Lead Software Engineer, Vision & Content Platforms

ESPN

Glendale (CA)

On-site

USD 158,000 - 212,000

Full time

9 hours ago

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Job summary

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is seeking a Lead Product Software Engineer to join our Content Platform Engineering team, responsible for building and operating content inspection pipelines that enable intelligent analysis of media assets at scale.

In this role, you will lead the development of systems that apply computer vision and vision language models to video and image content, extracting fine‑grained temporal metadata such as scene boundaries, visual events, object

Qualifications

7+ years relevant industry experience
Strong proficiency in Java or Python
Experience designing and building distributed systems and APIs (REST or GraphQL)
Strong experience with AWS and cloud-native system design
Translate product requirements into scalable technical solutions
Experience with containerization and orchestration in production
Full lifecycle of application development including testing, reviews, documentation
Experience with various data stores and data models
Experience in Agile/Scrum methodologies
Strong written and spoken communication skills

Responsibilities

Lead execution translating product and business requirements into technical solutions
Write, test, and deploy high quality, maintainable software
Collaborate with platform engineers and product teams to support business goals
Provide production support through issue investigation and on‑call activities
Mentor peers and promote engineering best practices in design reviews, testing, and documentation