Walt Disney-posted 4 days ago
$234,400 - $314,300/Yr
Full-time • Senior
Santa Monica, CA
Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries
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Technology is at the heart of Disney's past, present, and future. Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is a global organization of engineers, product developers, designers, technologists, data scientists, and more - all working to build and advance the technological backbone for Disney's media business globally. The team marries technology with creativity to build world-class products, enhance storytelling, and drive velocity, innovation, and scalability for our businesses. We are Storytellers and Innovators. Creators and Builders. Entertainers and Engineers. We work with every part of The Walt Disney Company's media portfolio to advance the technological foundation and consumer media touch points serving millions of people around the world. This Senior Principal Software Engineer position is an executive and architectural role within the Media Engineering Ecosystem Architecture team. This role is responsible for leading multi-pillar, multi-disciplinary large scale, strategic and complex company initiatives that intersect with the Media Platform domain which powers content and media metadata for all Disney direct-to-consumer experiences and advertising systems. This role provides technical leadership and industry experience to ensure both the successful execution of immediate business objectives and the long-term innovation and capability of the media technology ecosystem.

  • Lead the design and roadmap for the various areas of the Media Platform including acquisition, processing, storage, and distribution of media and metadata components from both first and third party providers to multiple consumers across the Disney direct-to-consumer experiences, advertising systems, and data analysis.
  • Partner with development, product, program, operations, architecture, and others in a matrix structure to perform project discovery and technical design execution at a multi-pillar level.
  • Be an ambassador from Media Engineering to teams across The Walt Disney Company to evangelize platform metadata capabilities and understand unique use-cases for design and inclusion in continued platform expansion.
  • Work with product, engineering, and leadership groups in DE&E Product & Technology to foster a community and culture of quality, innovation, and experimentation across the organization.
  • Provide guidance and mentor the technical and business teams and individuals by providing solutions, recommendations, and documentation driving continuous improvement.
  • Follow incidents within the domain and partner with teams to derive insights for resilience and self-healing capabilities into future iterations.
  • Engage in industry level conversations around technology standards and innovation as a representative of the Walt Disney Company.
  • Bachelor's Degree in technical field or equivalent experience.
  • 12+ years of experience in software development.
  • Skills collaborating with multiple distributed teams to build alignment and find common paths forward.
  • Experience designing, developing, and testing services and workflows to support multiple data ingestion paths and formats.
  • Experience designing, developing, and testing backend services and systems to support high scale distribution and denormalized edge data access.
  • Experience building, managing, and testing an authoritative normalized datastore with robust data sanitation supporting complex tiered model structures with distributed update notifications.
  • Experience building, managing, and testing a multi-tenant system and support environment allowing for operational flows without development intervention.
  • Experience building, testing, and deploying a video player stack across a diverse device and application ecosystem.
  • Experience using and implementing industry media (DASH, HLS, CMAF) and metadata standards (SCTE, CableLabs, ESNI) as well as state of the art practices.
  • Experience engaging and collaborating in industry standards bodies.
  • Strong interpersonal, administrative, presentation and analytical skills.
  • Clear communication, collaborative teamwork skills, and ability to build consensus with multiple stakeholders.
  • A broad, enterprise-wide view of the business and varying degrees of appreciation of strategy, process & capabilities, and governance.
  • A 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.
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