About the role

  • Software Engineer II for Disney Streaming services, building systems that power viewer playback. Collaborating with teams to implement scalable backend services for media platforms.

Responsibilities

  • Join the Live Pipeline team within the Product Engineering Organization and contribute to building the critical systems that power viewer playback across Disney Streaming services.
  • Implement reliable, high-throughput services that handle media metadata and generate the manifest/playlist delivered to web, mobile, and living room devices.
  • Apply your experience with backend development to build large-scale, distributed services.
  • Collaborate with other software engineers and cross-functional teams.
  • Maintain a deep understanding of core systems and how they interact with upstream and downstream dependencies.
  • Contribute and review code, set standards, and work with engineers to ensure product and design specifications are met.
  • Responsible for fundamental platform performance, scalability and resiliency.
  • Contribute to cross-functional troubleshooting of complex issues as needed.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of hands-on, professional software engineering experience in backend development.
  • Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent industry experience.
  • Strong programming skills in Go / C++ and other object-oriented languages, and a strong grasp of computer science fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, databases, etc.)
  • Experience using source control systems and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Experience performing load testing and building creative solutions to optimize performance, latency, and cost.
  • An ability to work both independently and collaboratively.
  • A broad perspective on problem-solving.
  • Experience deploying and scaling within a cloud/on-prem infrastructure.
  • Expert in AWS
  • Strong communication skills and a desire to share your knowledge with team members and others at Disney Streaming.

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

Software Engineer II – Live Pipeline

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

$117,500 - $157,500 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

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