The Walt Disney Company

Senior SDET – Backend Infrastructure, APIs

The Walt Disney Company

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Santa Monica • California, Washington • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $141,900 - $203,900 per year

Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

AWSCloudDjangoDockerFlaskGrafanaJavaJavaScriptKafkaKubernetesNode.jsPythonReactSDLCSpinnaker

About the role

  • Independently breaking down large epics and stories into smaller tasks based on stakeholder requirements
  • Contributing to the architecture, development and maintenance of test frameworks and pipelines that verify backend services and APIs across multiple products
  • Developing and supporting high quality code to build and enhance test automation, quality infrastructure, and innovative proof-of-concepts
  • Maintaining documentation meant for both end user and project contributor consumption
  • Supporting and mentoring junior developers, providing meaningful insight, code reviews and technical direction across the team
  • Investigating and troubleshooting issues across our services and driving them to resolution
  • Keeping up with industry trends and new publicly available technologies, coming up with innovative ideas and solutions for complex technical problems
  • Serving as an advanced resource for engineers on the team, training and helping others to contribute meaningful and impactful features and capabilities
  • Being an active member of the larger Quality Engineering team, helping increase productivity and impact through innovation, curiosity, and thoughtful debate.

Requirements

  • 5 years of relevant experience in a software development in test (SDET or SE)
  • Bachelor’s degree or the foreign equivalent in related field or equivalent years of work experience
  • Proficient in object-oriented design and expertise with one of the following programming languages: Python, Java, Node/JavaScript
  • Experience working with high-performing teams using Agile and Lean methodologies
  • Experience in modern design patterns and techniques
  • Excellent collaboration skills and ability to use standard software development lifecycle (SDLC) tools such as Jira and Confluence, and version control systems.
  • Experience shipping production Python, Flask, Django, React or Node.js applications (preferred)
  • Experience with developing and deploying applications in cloud platforms (e.g. AWS)
  • Experience with Kafka, Amazon SQS, and Kinesis (preferred)
  • Experience writing Gherkin Syntax to facilitate the development of automated test scenarios (preferred)
  • Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Spinnaker, and continuous integration/delivery systems (preferred)
  • Experience with testcase management (e.g. JIRA Xray), code management (e.g. git, SonarQube) and data visualization (e.g. Grafana, Data Dog) tools (preferred).
Benefits
  • 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 level and position offered.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
object-oriented designPythonJavaNode.jsFlaskDjangoReactAgile methodologiesLean methodologiesGherkin Syntax
Soft skills
collaborationmentoringtroubleshootinginnovationcommunicationproblem-solvingtechnical directiondocumentationteamworkcuriosity