Product Software Engineer II — Streaming Backend

The Walt Disney Company; Santa Monica (CA); Presencial; USD 119.000 - 160.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

The Walt Disney Company in Santa Monica, CA is seeking a Product Software Engineer II to join the Playback Services team within the Media Engineering group. You will design and implement high-performance backend services that enable media playback and delivery across Disney platforms.

Responsibilities include leading architecture discussions, contributing to production reliability, mentoring engineers, and sharing knowledge through the DSS technical community.

Formación

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience
• 3+ years related experience crafting backend architectures and delivering backend applications in production; knowledge of large-scale, high-availability backend services and JVM
• Experience building RESTful services (Scala APIs) and async programming models; threading/concurrency
• Strong CS fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, databases) and design patterns
• Experience with Public Cloud (e.g. AWS) and source control; CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with build/deployment (Jenkins, Docker) and messaging (Kafka, Kinesis, SQS)
• Observability tools (Datadog, Splunk, Grafana); caching technologies; AGILE practices
• Strong written and verbal communication; self-driven, problem solver

Responsabilidades

• Build high-performance, stable, scalable backend systems for enterprise use
• Lead architecture discussions and set coding standards within the team
• Participate in on-call rotations to support production systems
• Mentor other engineers and share knowledge within DSS community
• Engage in presentations and tech talks to promote best practices

Conocimientos

Backend architectures

Scala APIs

JVM services

Async programming

CS fundamentals

Agile/Scrum

Design patterns

Public Cloud (AWS)

Git & CI/CD

High-availability systems

Educación

Bachelor’s degree in CS or related

Herramientas

Jenkins

Docker

Kafka

Kinesis

SQS

Datadog

Splunk

Grafana

Git

Descripción del empleo

The Walt Disney Company in Santa Monica, CA is seeking a Product Software Engineer II to join the Playback Services team within the Media Engineering group. You will design and implement high-performance backend services that enable media playback and delivery across Disney platforms.

Responsibilities include leading architecture discussions, contributing to production reliability, mentoring engineers, and sharing knowledge through the DSS technical community.