
Sr Software Engineer
The Walt Disney Company2 months ago
Glendale, CA, USA or Seattle, WA, USASenior
Base Salary
$142k - $190k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define platform capabilities and design and implement products and services for Disney’s media supply chain.
- Build scalable, maintainable, well-tested backend software that supports multiple customers and stakeholders.
- Design, build, test, deploy, troubleshoot, and maintain high-quality software solutions.
- Ensure platform performance, scalability, fault tolerance, and resiliency.
- Collaborate with software engineers, cross-functional teams, vendors, and stakeholders to refine requirements and solve cross-team problems.
- Contribute to and review code, establish engineering standards, and ensure product and design specifications are met.
- Provide technical guidance, promote best practices, mentor junior engineers, and conduct code reviews.
- Maintain understanding of core systems and upstream and downstream dependencies.
- Troubleshoot complex issues and fix defects as needed.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline, or equivalent qualification.
- At least 5 years of related experience designing backend architectures and delivering backend applications in production.
- Experience with Java, GraphQL, REST APIs, microservice architectures, asynchronous programming, and the Spring Framework.
- Experience architecting and delivering high-volume, cached, fault-tolerant, multithreaded, scalable systems.
- Experience with MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch, Postgres, and DynamoDB.
- Experience with AWS Lambda, EC2, S3, SQS, Step Functions, and Fargate.
- Experience with Docker, GitLab CI, Terraform or CloudFormation, and Jenkins.
- Expertise across the full application development lifecycle, including unit testing, code reviews, and documentation.
- Strong communication, attention to detail, adaptability, and ability to work collaboratively.
- Preferred: media distribution experience, vendor-team collaboration, performance testing, application profiling, and expertise in Java and AWS, Azure, or GCP.
Benefits
- Full-time position based in Glendale, California, with an alternate listed location in Seattle, Washington.
- Compensation package may include medical and financial benefits, bonus, and/or long-term incentive units, depending on level and position.
Tech Stack
Amazon DynamoDBAWSAzureDockerElasticsearchGitLab CI/CDGoogle Cloud PlatformGraphQLJavaJenkinsMongoDBPostgreSQLRedisTerraform