The Walt Disney Company

Sr Software Engineer

The Walt Disney Company
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Base Salary

$149k - $199k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, maintain, and deploy scalable, secure, and efficient software applications using Scala and other backend languages.
  • Use AWS services including CloudFormation, EC2, Lambda, S3, and DynamoDB to deploy and manage cloud applications.
  • Implement containerized solutions with Docker and deploy and manage services on Kubernetes.
  • Design and build fault-tolerant, highly available, and scalable distributed systems.
  • Implement observability practices using tagging, metrics, logging, and Datadog monitoring.
  • Collaborate with product managers, UI/UX designers, and DevOps engineers to define requirements, design systems, and deliver features.
  • Write clean, maintainable, and testable code, conduct code reviews, and mentor junior engineers.
  • Address complex technical challenges and improve system performance, scalability, and reliability.
  • Follow team best practices for the safe use of LLMs and suggest improvements.

Requirements

  • Bachelor-level degree in Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, or a similar field.
  • 5+ years of software development experience focused on functional-programming Scala stacks.
  • Hands-on experience with AWS cloud services and Kubernetes container orchestration.
  • Strong understanding of distributed systems, RESTful APIs, microservices architecture, and event-driven architecture.
  • Experience with functional programming languages, preferably Scala using ZIO, Cats, and Cats Effect; alternatives include RxJava, Kotlin, Clojure/Lisp, Haskell, OCaml, Elm, and TypeScript Effect.
  • Experience with AWS, CloudFormation, Terraform, or similar technologies.
  • Experience with Istio and Spinnaker.
  • Full software development lifecycle experience, including post-release maintenance.
  • Experience with version control systems such as Git and Jira.
  • Understanding of distributed-system design and scaling, observability solutions, tagging, metrics, and logging is preferred.
  • Proficiency with continuous integration and delivery pipelines and modern development tools is preferred.

Benefits

  • Full-time position based in the New York City office.
  • Hiring range is $148,700 to $199,400 per year, with potential bonus and/or long-term incentive units in addition to medical, financial, and other benefits.

Tech Stack

Amazon DynamoDBAWSClojureDatadogDockerGitHaskellIstioKotlinKubernetesLispScalaSpinnakerTerraformTypeScript
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