Join the Live Pipeline team within the Product Engineering Organization and contribute to building the critical systems that power viewer playback across Disney Streaming services.
Implement reliable, high-throughput services that handle media metadata and generate the manifest/playlist delivered to web, mobile, and living room devices.
Apply your experience with backend development to build large-scale, distributed services.
Collaborate with other software engineers and cross-functional teams.
Maintain a deep understanding of core systems and how they interact with upstream and downstream dependencies.
Contribute and review code, set standards, and work with engineers to ensure product and design specifications are met.
Responsible for fundamental platform performance, scalability and resiliency.
Contribute to cross-functional troubleshooting of complex issues as needed.

Requirements

3+ years of hands-on, professional software engineering experience in backend development.
Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent industry experience.
Strong programming skills in Go / C++ and other object-oriented languages, and a strong grasp of computer science fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, databases, etc.)
Experience using source control systems and CI/CD pipelines.
Experience performing load testing and building creative solutions to optimize performance, latency, and cost.
An ability to work both independently and collaboratively.
A broad perspective on problem-solving.
Experience deploying and scaling within a cloud/on-prem infrastructure.
Expert in AWS
Strong communication skills and a desire to share your knowledge with team members and others at Disney Streaming.

Benefits

A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.

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Hard Skills & Tools

backend developmentprogramming in Goprogramming in C++data structuresalgorithmsdatabasesload testingperformance optimizationcloud infrastructureCI/CD pipelines

Soft Skills

collaborationproblem-solvingindependent workcommunicationknowledge sharing