Principal Software Engineer

About the position

Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology is looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join Playback Services within the Media Engineering organization. Our team's mission is to build highly available, high throughput services that are essential to delivering high quality content to our subscribers. The team is responsible for the backend of media playback, facilitating media selection, device customization, and antipiracy technologies. If you enjoy streaming media, are interested in live sports and entertainment, or just want to join a fast-growing team that plays a critical role in the core functionality of our streaming products, then our team is for you!

Responsibilities

• Work with a team of engineers building software in a collaborative development process
• Work cross-team to build consensus on approach for delivering projects
• Collaborate with business partners to understand and refine requirements
• Eliminate ambiguity in projects and communicate direction to engineers to help team members work in parallel
• Ramp up quickly on existing software to deliver incremental, integrated solutions in a complex environment
• Build high-performance, stable, scalable systems to be deployed in an enterprise setting
• Lead high-level architecture discussions and planning sessions
• Participate in the code review process by assessing pull requests
• Support systems and services during production incidents as part of the on-call rotation
• Author and recommend technical proposals and root cause analyses
• Provide mentoring and advice for other specialists
• Establish engineering practices and standards within the team to drive quality and excellence
• Represent the DSS technical community at presentations, tech talks, and other knowledge-sharing efforts

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience
• 10+ years related experience crafting backend architectures and delivering backend applications in a production environment
• Expertise in functional programming patterns and experience building RESTful services using Scala APIs; validated knowledge of operating large-scale high-availability backend services
• Understanding of async programming models (events, callbacks, promises, async/await) and threading/concurrency
• Knowledge of source control systems, messaging and caching technologies, CI/CD pipelines, public cloud providers and observability tools for metrics, logging, and monitoring (Git, Jenkins, Docker, Kafka, Kinesis, SQS, DynamoDB, RDBMS, Redis, AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Datadog, Splunk, Grafana)
• Knowledge of AGILE/Scrum practices

Benefits

• Base pay range of $193,100.00 to $258,900.00 per year in Seattle, WA and New York City, NY
• Base pay range of $184,300.00 to $247,100.00 in Santa Monica/Burbank/Glendale/L.A., California and in Bristol, Connecticut
• Base pay range of $201,900.00 to $270,700.00 in San Francisco, California
• Bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package
• Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered