Lead Software Engineer

Company: Disney Streaming
Location: Santa Monica
Posted on: June 18, 2022

Job Description:

Disney Streaming is looking for a talented and motivated Lead Software Engineer to join the User Settings & Artifacts team.This team is the intersection between user and content metadata in Disney, and has to contend with both deep understanding of content metadata and the need to scale our services in order to service users across the globe. This team is currently creating multi-tenant systems designed to meet the needs of Disney+, Hulu, Star+, and as well as any legacy systems still migrating to our shared platform.We are a fast paced and fast growing team, you will have influence over the technical direction and architecture for the services and tools built by the team. You will also have an opportunity to learn about the international landscape and challenges in the area of payments as we keep rapidly growing our streaming services around the world over the next few years.Responsibilities :

• Design multi-tenant, multi-region applications for high levels of uptime
• Help improve the quality of the team's code across the code base
• Complete designed systems to high levels of quality and reliability
• Triage and debug incidents
• Communicate with stakeholders to negotiate over technical designsBasic Qualifications :
  • 7+ years of experience in backend development.
  • Proficient in designing and implementing large scale distributed systems.
  • Hands on experience with industry standard observability tools for distributed systems
  • Experience working with at least one Object Oriented Language like Java (or JVM variant languages like Scala, Kotlin), Python, or others.
  • Knowledge/experience with AWS products and services (EC2, S3, Lambda, DynamoDB, RDS, ElastiCache, CloudFront, etc.) or other cloud providers.
  • In-depth experience working on relational and/or noSQL databases.
  • Experience with high performance queue systems (Kafka, Kinesis, RabbitMQ, etc.)
  • Previous experience taking ownership of features/functionality and delivering projects end-to-end with high quality and robust architecture.
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to work with distributed multi-functional business partners
  • Ability to investigate any technical component as well as understand and drive the overall systems architecture.Required Education : BS/MS Degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent work experienceAdditional Information : #DisneyTechLocation: Santa Monica, CA or remote

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