Sr Software Engineer - Live and Linear Tooling

The Walt Disney Company; New York (NY); On-site; USD 148,700 - 199,400; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Bonus opportunities

Comprehensive benefits package

Job summary

A global entertainment and media enterprise is seeking a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer to join their Live and Linear Tooling team. This role focuses on managing live and linear content for platforms like Disney+, ESPN, and Hulu. Key responsibilities include designing and deploying high-quality software, collaborating with teams to meet business objectives, and ensuring system stability and performance. Ideal candidates will have over 5 years of relevant experience, expertise in object-oriented programming, and a solid understanding of software design principles.

Qualifications

• 5+ years relevant industry experience.
• Proficiency in at least one object-oriented programming language (e.g., Java, Python).
• Solid understanding of software design principles, algorithms, and data structures.

Responsibilities

• Design, write, test, and deploy high-quality code to develop reliable software.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to align technical solutions and business goals.
• Monitor and optimize production systems for stability and performance.

Skills

Object-oriented programming

Team collaboration

Software design principles

Agile/Scrum methodology

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or comparable field

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Job description

Sr Software Engineer - Live and Linear Tooling

Location: New York, New York, United States / Seattle, Washington, United States

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is a global organization of engineers, product developers, designers, technologists, data scientists, and more – all working to build and advance the technological backbone for Disney’s media business globally.

Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer to join our Live and Linear Tooling team, focusing on the management of live and linear content across the Disney+, ESPN and Hulu spaces. The applications in this space are responsible for ingestion of live and linear feed metadata from upstream partners, managing linear schedules to ensure no gaps or overlaps between airings on a single channel, contract resolution for blackout features such as replay/lookback, and tools for managing airings, live events, and stream health and fallback logic.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Write and Maintain Software Solutions: Design, write, test, and deploy high-quality code to develop reliable, maintainable software solutions.
• Collaborate with Cross-Functional Teams: Work closely with software engineers, product managers, and program managers to ensure technical solutions effectively support business goals and content strategies. Foster a culture of collaboration and continuous learning.
• Production Support: Monitor and optimize production systems, ensuring platform stability, performance, and uptime.

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years relevant industry experience
• Proficiency in at least one object-oriented programming language (e.g., Java, Python)
• Solid understanding of software design principles, algorithms, and data structures
• Expertise with full lifecycle of application development, including best practices of unit testing, code reviews, documentation, etc.
• Experience with a wide range of data store technologies such as Redis, Elasticsearch, Postgres, and DynamoDB
• Experience in Agile/Scrum methodology
• Team player with strong oral and written communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Proficiency in Java
• Experience with high scale, high availability systems
• Deep AWS experience (Lambdas, Kinesis Streams)
• Kubernetes experience in production environments
• Observability tooling experience (e.g., Datadog)
• Experience breaking down ambiguous business requirements into technical designs

Experience with

• Experience working with REST APIs for building and consuming services.
• Experience with cloud platforms like AWS and their core services (e.g., S3, Lambda, EC2).
• Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience with build and deployment technologies such as Docker, Gitlab-CI, Terraform/Cloud formation, and Jenkins.
• Experience with frameworks such as Spring, Spring Boot.

Required Education

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience.

The hiring range for this position in New York City, NY and Seattle, WA is $148,700.00 to $199,400.00 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region, job‑related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long‑term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.

About Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology

At Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology, we’re blending imagination and innovation to reimagine the ways people experience and engage with the world’s most beloved stories and products. Our work is wide‑ranging and deeply sophisticated. We create amazing experiences, transform the future of media, and build products and platforms that enable the connection between people everywhere and the stories and sports they love.

Disney’s ability to marry world‑class technology with one‑of‑a‑kind creativity makes us unique. It is at the heart of our past, present, and future.

About The Walt Disney Company

The Walt Disney Company, together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading diversified international family entertainment and media enterprise that includes three core business segments: Disney Entertainment, ESPN, and Disney Experiences. From humble beginnings as a cartoon studio in the 1920s to its preeminent name in the entertainment industry today, Disney proudly continues its legacy of creating world‑class stories and experiences for every member of the family.

This position is with Disney Streaming Technology LLC, which is part of a business we call Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology.

Disney Streaming Technology LLC is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, military or veteran status, medical condition, genetic information or disability, or any other basis prohibited by federal, state or local law. Disney champions a business environment where ideas and decisions from all people help us grow, innovate, create the best stories and be relevant in a constantly evolving world.

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