Hybrid Software Engineer II – Live Pipeline

at The Walt Disney Company

• Job title: Software Engineer II – Live Pipeline
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: $117,500 - $157,500 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, Cloud, Go
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Glendale, United States

About the role

• Software Engineer II for Disney Streaming services, building systems that power viewer playback. Collaborating with teams to implement scalable backend services for media platforms.

Responsibilities

• 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.