Principal Software Engineer
Postuler maintenant Postuler ultérieurement Job ID 10124662 Emplacement Santa Monica, Californie, États-Unis / Bristol, Connecticut, États-Unis / New York, New York, États-Unis / Glendale, Californie, États-Unis / San Francisco, Californie, États-Unis / Seattle, Washington, États-Unis / Morrisville, Caroline du Nord, États-Unis Entreprise Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology Date de publication 03/07/2025Résumé du poste:
Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology
Technology is at the heart of Disney’s past, present, and future. Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is a global organization of engineers, product developers, designers, technologists, data scientists, and more – all working to build and advance the technological backbone for Disney’s media business globally. The team marries technology with creativity to build world-class products, enhance storytelling, and drive velocity, innovation, and scalability for our businesses. We are Storytellers and Innovators. Creators and Builders. Entertainers and Engineers. We work with every part of The Walt Disney Company’s media portfolio to advance the technological foundation and consumer media touch points serving millions of people around the world.
Here are a few reasons why we think you’d love working here:
Building the future of Disney’s media: Our Technologists are designing and building the products and platforms that will power our media, advertising, and distribution businesses for years to come.
Reach, Scale & Impact: More than ever, Disney’s technology and products serve as a signature doorway for fans' connections with the company’s brands and stories. Disney+. Hulu. ESPN. ABC. ABC News…and many more. These products and brands – and the unmatched stories, storytellers, and events they carry – matter to millions of people globally.
Innovation: We develop and implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms, and solve complex and distinctive technical problems.
Product Engineering is a unified team responsible for the engineering of Disney Entertainment & ESPN digital and streaming products and platforms. This includes product engineering, media engineering, quality assurance, engineering behind personalization, commerce, lifecycle, and identity.
Responsibilities
Take ambiguous or conflicting requirements and bring clarity by proposing different solutions and communicating concrete and concise trade-offs.
Manage partnerships with CDNs and other vendors in the media distribution space to provide technical solutions in the distribution problem space
Lead technical architecture in the CDN space, building solutions and driving conversations as necessary
Develop a mental and quantitative model for our coordinated mesh CDN strategy and architecture
Manage CDN relationships, negotiating traffic, capacity, and pricing to optimize Disney’s ability to serve a high-quality media experience at the lowest cost possible
Develop scalable and simple solutions to challenging engineering problems that are easy to maintain on ambitious timelines
Tie data from internal and external sources, transforming & improving as needed to power well-structured database and data lake solutions
Lead by example writing well-constructed and easy to maintain code, defensive and robust tests.
Raise the quality bar across the team by driving engineering standard methodologies and innovative tools, design patterns and engineering processes.
Take ambiguous or conflicting requirements and bring clarity by proposing software architectures and communicating concrete and concise trade-offs.
Basic Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in computer science-related field or equivalent work experience
10+ years of experience in a development background and proficiency in Python
Experience working with CDNs or a media background. Finance experience is a plus.
Experience with data modeling and simplifying data across multiple sources into a normalized format for leveraging in data-intensive use-cases
You have experience designing and shipping data engineering software solutions.
You have a mind for building easily developed and deployed applications
Databricks experience or other data lake technology is preferred
You have working knowledge of Python in a Spark environment. You have an interest in video streaming and internet networking.
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The hiring range for this position in Seattle, WA and in New York City, NY is $193,100 to $258,900 per year; the hiring range for this position in Santa Monica/Burbank/Glendale/L.A., California and in Bristol, Connecticut is $184,300 to $247,100; and the hiring range for this position in North Carolina is $175,500 to $235,400 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. 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.
Informations Supplémentaires:
DISNEYTECHSur Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology:
Chez Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology, nous allions imagination et innovation pour réinventer la manière dont les gens vivent et interagissent avec les histoires et les produits les plus appréciés au monde. Notre travail est extrêmement vaste et complexe. Nous créons des expériences incroyables, transformons l’avenir des médias et créons des produits et des plateformes qui rapprochent les gens du monde entier des histoires et des sports qu’ils aiment.
Chez Disney, notre capacité à associer une technologie de classe mondiale à une créativité sans pareille nous rend uniques. C’est l’essence même de notre passé, de notre présent et de notre avenir. Nous sommes des narrateurs et des innovateurs. Des créateurs et des bâtisseurs. Des artistes et des ingénieurs.
Sur The Walt Disney Company:
The Walt Disney Company, ainsi que ses filiales et sociétés affiliées, forme l’une des principales entreprises internationales diversifiées de divertissement familial et de médias. Elle comprend trois secteurs d'activités essentiels : Disney Entertainment, ESPN et Disney Experiences. Depuis ses modestes débuts en tant que studio de dessins animés dans les années 1920 jusqu’à son statut de référence actuel dans le secteur du divertissement, Disney poursuit fièrement sa tradition de création d’histoires et d’expériences exceptionnelles pour tous les membres de la famille. Les histoires, les personnages et les expériences de Disney touchent les consommateurs et les visiteurs du monde entier. À travers nos activités présentes dans plus de 40 pays, nos employés et cast members collaborent pour créer des expériences de divertissement appréciées à la fois au niveau universel et local.
Le poste est rattaché à Disney Streaming Technology LLC , qui fait partie d’une entreprise que nous appelons Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology.
Disney Streaming Technology LLC est un employeur qui souscrit au principe d’égalité des chances à l’emploi. Les candidat(e)s seront pris(es) en considération pour un emploi sans distinction de race, de religion, de couleur, de sexe, d’orientation sexuelle, de genre, d’identité de genre, d’expression de genre, d’origine nationale, d’ascendance, d’âge, d’état matrimonial, de statut militaire ou d’ancien combattant, d’état de santé, d’informations génétiques ou de handicap, ou de tout autre motif interdit par la loi fédérale, étatique ou locale. Disney défend un environnement commercial où les idées et décisions de tous et toutes nous aident à grandir, innover, créer les meilleures histoires et être pertinents dans un monde en évolution constante.