Lead Software Engineer
Jetzt bewerben Später bewerben Job ID 10131323 Standort Santa Monica, Kalifornien, USA / San Francisco, Kalifornien, USA / New York City, New York, USA / Seattle, Washington, USA Veröffentlichungsdatum 27/09/2025 Unternehmen Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & TechnologyJob-Zusammenfassung:
Disney Entertainment & ESPN Product & Technology
Technology is at the heart of Disney’s past, present, and future. Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology (DEEP&T) 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.
Commerce, Data & Identity (CDI) provides the core product management functions for areas crucial to Disney’s media businesses. These include initiatives and products that power digital commerce, identity, and growth, as well as those that reach uniquely across The Walt Disney Company enterprise, such as messaging and privacy, among others. Additionally, it is responsible for the data engineering, science, and products for Disney Entertainment & ESPN, along with their interconnection with other parts of The Walt Disney Company.
The Big Data Infrastructure team
The Big Data Infrastructure team manages big data services such as Hadoop, Spark, Flink, Presto, Hive, etc. Our services are distributed across the data center and Cloud, supporting a large scale of data amount and thousands of physical resources. We focus on the virtualization of big data environments, cost efficiency, resiliency, and performance. The right person for this role should have proven experience with working in mission-critical infrastructure and enjoy building and maintaining large-scale data systems with the challenge of varied requirements and large storage capabilities. If you are someone who enjoys building large-scale big data infrastructure, then this is a great role for you
Responsibilities
Develop, scale, and improve in-house/cloud and open-source big data engines (e.g. Spark, Flink, Presto/Trino, etc).
Investigate new big data technology, and apply it to the DisneyStreaming production environment.
Build next-gen cloud-based big data infrastructure for batch and streaming data applications, and continuously improve performance, scalability and availability
Handle architectural and design considerations such as performance, scalability, reusability, and flexibility issues.
Advocate engineering best practices, including the use of design patterns, code review, and automated unit/functional testing.
Work together with other engineering teams to influence them on big data system design and optimization.
Define and lead the adoption of best practices and processes. Collaborate with senior internal team members and external stakeholders to gather requirements and drive implementation
Collaborate efficiently with Product Managers and other developers to build datastores as a service.
Collaborate with senior internal team members and external stakeholders to gather requirements and drive implementation.
Basic Qualifications
Experience in building in-house big data infrastructure.
Experience in developing and optimizing big data components (e.g. Spark, Flink, Presto/Trino, etc)
Experience with modern data formats (Iceberg, Delta, Hudi etc)
Experience with CICD, fine-tuned metrics, security and compliance enhancement
Ability to drive a project from end to end, including clarifying requirements, resolving conflicts, handling tech challenges and delivering the results
Motivation to dive deep and become an expert in one or more big data areas. Ready to unpack and crack open-source software to fix bugs or develop new features, and contribute back to the community
Preferred Qualifications
Experience in building in-house big data infrastructure.
Experience in contributing big data components (e.g. HDFS, Hive, Spark, Flink, Presto/Trino, etc)
Experience in container tech stack, including Kubernetes, Docker, Volcano, etc
Experience in managing a big data cluster with over 1000 nodes.
Required Education
7+ years of relevant professional experience and Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field OR 5+ years of relevant professional experiences and a Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field
Additional Information
#DISNEYTECH
#CDI
The hiring range for this position in New York, NY and Seattle, WA is $159,500.00 to $213,900.00 per year, in San Francisco, CA is $166,800.00 - $223,600.00 and in Santa Monica, CA is $152,200.00 to $204,100.00 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.
Weitere Informationen:
DISNEYTECHÜber Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology:
Bei Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology vereinen wir Fantasie und Innovation, um die Art und Weise neu zu erfinden, wie Menschen die beliebtesten Geschichten und Produkte der Welt erleben und mit ihnen interagieren. Unsere Arbeit ist vielfältig und anspruchsvoll. Wir schaffen erstaunliche Erlebnisse, transformieren die Zukunft der Medien und entwickeln Produkte und Plattformen, die Menschen überall mit den Geschichten und Sportarten verbinden, die sie lieben.
Disneys Fähigkeit, erstklassige Technologie mit einzigartiger Kreativität zu verbinden, macht uns einzigartig. Es ist der Mittelpunkt unserer Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft. Wir sind Erzähler und Innovatoren. Kreative und Erbauer. Entertainer und Ingenieure.
Über The Walt Disney Company:
Die Walt Disney Company ist zusammen mit ihren Tochtergesellschaften und verbundenen Unternehmen ein führendes, diversifiziertes internationales Familienunterhaltungs- und Medienunternehmen mit folgenden Geschäftsbereichen: Disney Entertainment, ESPN sowie Disney Experiences. Von seinen bescheidenen Anfängen als Zeichentrickfilmstudio in den 1920er Jahren bis zu seiner aktuellen Vorreiterrolle in der Unterhaltungsindustrie trägt Disney stolz sein Erbe weiter und bietet Geschichten und Erlebnisse von Weltklasse, die alle Familienmitglieder bezaubern. Disneys Geschichten, Figuren und Abenteuer erreichen Verbraucher und Gäste aus allen Teilen der Welt. Gemeinsam schaffen unsere Mitarbeiter und Darsteller aus Niederlassungen in über 40 Ländern der Welt Unterhaltungserlebnisse, die sowohl auf globaler Ebene als auch im heimischen Umfeld begeistern.
Diese Position ist bei Disney Streaming Technology LLC, das Teil eines Geschäftssegments ist, das wir Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology nennen.
Disney Streaming Technology LLC bietet als Arbeitgeber Chancengleichheit. Die Beurteilung der Möglichkeit der Beschäftigung von Bewerbern erfolgt unabhängig von ethnischer Zugehörigkeit, Religion, Hautfarbe, Geschlecht, sexueller Orientierung, Geschlechtsidentität, Geschlechtsausdruck, nationaler Herkunft, Abstammung, Alter, Familienstand, militärischem Status oder Veteranenstatus, Gesundheitszustand, genetischen Informationen oder einer Behinderung, oder anderer gemäß Bundes-, Landes- oder örtlichem Gesetz verbotener Merkmale. Disney fördert eine Unternehmenskultur, in der Ideen und Entscheidungen aller Personen uns dabei helfen, zu wachsen, innovativ zu sein, die besten Geschichten zu schreiben und in einer sich ständig weiterentwickelnden Welt von Bedeutung zu sein.