Senior Stateful Streaming Microservices Engineer

The Walt Disney Company; Burbank (CA); On-site; USD 136,000 - 182,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus & long-term incentives

Job summary

The Walt Disney Company is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for User State and Customizations within Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology in the Burbank area. You will deliver scalable microservices and data pipelines while mentoring teammates across platforms like Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+.

You will collaborate with product and data teams to build robust pipelines and data stores, applying cloud-native practices and Agile methods to drive impact at scale.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of software engineering experience building highly available architectures.
• Proficient in Java, Scala, or Python.
• Experience shipping software at scale with strong communication.
• Experience with performance tuning and distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, deploy, and support stateful microservices and Lambdas in a multi-region cloud environment.
• Promote and support Agile methodologies such as Scrum, Kanban, and Scrumban by leading regular ceremonies.
• Mentor engineers within your squad (and beyond!) to help them improve their technical ability and profile.
• Collaborate with Product Managers, Designers, QA, Operations, and other stakeholders to understand requirements and articulate technical decisions and outcomes.

Skills

Java

Scala

Python

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

SpringBoot

DynamoDB

Apache Kafka

Kinesis

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

The Walt Disney Company is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for User State and Customizations within Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology in the Burbank area. You will deliver scalable microservices and data pipelines while mentoring teammates across platforms like Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+.

You will collaborate with product and data teams to build robust pipelines and data stores, applying cloud-native practices and Agile methods to drive impact at scale.