About the role

  • Lead Software Engineer developing best-in-class big data infrastructure for Disney’s media business. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance product capabilities and customer support.

Responsibilities

  • Build a best-in-class big data infrastructure on top of K8s
  • Provide an easy-to-use interface to users and continuously enrich the tooling in this ecosystem.
  • Make sure the system design for on-prem is compatible with the cloud environment as much as possible
  • Drive the evaluation, prototyping, adoption and productionization of modern technologies from the K8s community, to continuously improve the performance, scalability and security.
  • Emphasis on automation and observability.
  • Develop the process and tooling for CICD, system monitoring etc.
  • Advocate for engineering excellence and operation excellence.
  • Help the team establish best practices.
  • Collaborate with team members, PMs/TPMs and other stakeholders to gather requirements, clarify ambiguities and work towards the goals.
  • Provide prompt customer support with the mindset of customers being the north star.

Requirements

  • At least 7 years of professional software engineering experience
  • Solid experience with K8s, including a deep understanding of key K8s components (e.g. control plane)
  • Solid experience with deploying and managing applications on K8s
  • Desire to dive deep and become an expert in one or more big data areas
  • Ready to unpack open-source software for deep understanding, bug fixes and development of new features
  • Willing to be engaged in the open source community and contribute to the community
  • Solid problem-solving skills and the ability to move fast
  • Ability to drive a project from end to end, including clarifying requirements, resolving conflicts, handling tech challenges and finally delivering the results.
  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience

Benefits

  • 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.

Job title

Lead Software Engineer

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$155,700 - $228,600 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

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