The Walt Disney Company

Senior Principal Software Engineer

The Walt Disney Company

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: New York City • California, New York, Washington • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $223,700 - $328,600 per year

Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • 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

Requirements

  • 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
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 the level and position offered

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
software developmentdata ingestionbackend servicesnormalized datastoremulti-tenant systemvideo player stackDASHHLSCMAFmetadata standards
Soft skills
collaborationmentoringguidancecommunicationinnovationexperimentationcommunity buildingtechnical design executionproject discoverycontinuous improvement
Certifications
Bachelor’s Degree
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