Senior Golang Backend Lead for Scalable News Platform

5014 Disney Entertainment & Sports LLC; Glendale (CA); On-site; USD 142,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Disney Entertainment & Sports LLC is seeking a Senior Product Software Engineer to shape the News Distribution Platform. You will lead the design and delivery of scalable backend services inGo and Java, partnering with product and editorial to power high-quality guest experiences from Glendale, CA.

You will own end-to-end initiatives, drive architecture decisions, and mentor engineers while improving reliability, performance, and developer effectiveness in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field is required.
• 5+ years building distributed backend systems in production.
• Strong experience with Golang (preferred) and Java.
• Experience deploying services in AWS or similar cloud.
• Deep understanding of caching technologies like Redis or Memcached.
• Proven leadership, coaching, and mentoring abilities.
• Strong problem-solving and proactive, detail-oriented approach.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and source control tools.
• Experience with observability tools (Datadog, Grafana).
• Experience with Agile/Scrum development environments.

Responsibilities

• Own complex technical initiatives end-to-end from design through production deployment.
• Set architectural direction for backend distribution APIs and services for high availability and low latency.
• Partner with product, editorial, and engineering stakeholders to translate requirements into solutions.
• Prioritize initiatives to deliver high-impact, time-sensitive outcomes and manage risks.
• Champion engineering best practices across code quality, testing, CI/CD, observability, and incident response.
• Set standards for operational excellence including monitoring, alerting, and on-call processes.
• Perform thorough code reviews and uphold technical rigor and maintainability.
• Mentor engineers and foster ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Drive performance optimization across services, caching layers, and data stores.
• Contribute to technical documentation and promote knowledge sharing across teams.

Skills

Communication skills

Leadership

Problem solving

Golang

Java

AWS

Redis

Memcached

Git

GitLab

Jenkins

Datadog

Grafana

CI/CD

Observability

Agile/Scrum

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Golang

Java

AWS

Redis

Memcached

Git

GitLab

Jenkins

Datadog

Grafana

Job description

Disney Entertainment & Sports LLC is seeking a Senior Product Software Engineer to shape the News Distribution Platform. You will lead the design and delivery of scalable backend services inGo and Java, partnering with product and editorial to power high-quality guest experiences from Glendale, CA.

You will own end-to-end initiatives, drive architecture decisions, and mentor engineers while improving reliability, performance, and developer effectiveness in a fast-paced environment.