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Manager, Software Engineering

Jetzt bewerben Später bewerben Job ID 10114105 Standort Seattle, Washington, USA / Santa Monica, Kalifornien, USA / San Francisco, Kalifornien, USA Veröffentlichungsdatum 24/02/2025 Unternehmen Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology

Job-Zusammenfassung:

Job Summary:

On any given day at Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology, we’re reimagining ways to create magical viewing experiences for the world’s most beloved stories while also transforming our media business for the future. Whether that’s evolving our streaming and digital products in new and immersive ways, powering worldwide advertising and distribution to enhance flexibility and efficiency, or delivering Disney’s unmatched entertainment and sports content, every day is a moment to make a difference to partners and to hundreds of millions of people around the world.

A few reasons why we think you’d love working here:

  • Building the future of Disney’s media: DE&E Technologists are designing and building the infrastructure that will power our media, advertising, and distribution businesses for years to come.
  • Reach & Scale: The products and platforms this group builds and operates delight millions of consumers every minute of every day – from Disney+ and Hulu, to ABC News and Entertainment, to ESPN and ESPN+, and much more.
  • Innovation: We develop and implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms and enhance how audiences experience sports, entertainment & news.

The Commerce, Growth & Identity (CGI) team is dedicated to three business-critical areas at Disney that will help transform its media business. They create seamless user experiences for consumers who can choose from a wide range of subscription plans, enabling more choice and flexibility. The CGI team is also focused on building innovative and cutting-edge capabilities that will drive subscriptions, engagement, and monetization across Disney’s streaming and digital products.

At Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology you'll have the opportunity to create highly scalable and reliable services that power Disney+. You'll get to understand the challenges of facilitating a high-quality, flawless media streaming experience across mobile, connected devices, and web, all while using the latest technologies available from AWS and beyond. You'll be tasked with raising the bar by innovating and adopting new patterns and technologies to keep your teams on the bleeding edge of development.

At Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology we feel strongly that teams should own their own processes, decide their own technologies, and design solutions for the long term. If you're interested in working in a highly collaborative team environment like this, please get in touch - we'd love to hear from you!

Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology has already achieved a number of key landmarks for our partners including launching Eurosport Player, ESPN+ and of course the highly successful Disney+ service.

We are looking for an experienced Software Engineering Manager to join us.

Responsibilities:

  • Be responsible for the full lifecycle of software development (requirements gathering, designing, building, testing, maintenance, and support).

  • Design, build, deploy, and operate solutions capable of processing a large number of concurrent requests quickly, correctly, and reliably.

  • Work within a cross functional team of engineers building software in a collaborative & agile development environment.

  • Support the team in continuously improving the organization’s tools and best practices for owning and operating software.

  • Hire and nurture engineers through mentorship and career advocacy. Provide goals, career path, promotion guidance, motivation to your direct reports.

  • Enable data-driven prioritization and decision-making for your team through cross-organizational communication.

  • Execute and improve the project processes.

  • Encourage individual decision-making amongst your team to support growth opportunities for your directs.

  • Foster an open environment of mutual support and engineering effectiveness.

  • Ultimately responsible for the project success, including the full lifecycle of software development (requirements gathering, designing, building, testing, maintenance, support, stakeholder management, innovation, team growth), product and architecture vision and execution against that vision and organization objectives.

  • Be responsible for a project delivering some of the highest scale distributed systems in the world, solving challenging and varied engineering problems.

  • Collaborate with product teams, engineering teams to design and build solutions.

  • Integrate with a variety of teams and domains, ranging from advertising, media, commerce, or user experience.

  • Escalate and report project status, progress, risks to your leadership.

  • Drive and maintain a culture of quality, innovation and experimentation.

  • Work with other teams, evangelize the solution, best-practices, data driven decisions, identify new use cases and features and drive adoption.

  • Coach engineers best practices and technical concepts of building large scale distributed systems.

  • Influence and drive software engineering and architecture best practices and standards within the team and wider organization.

Basic Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience.

  • Minimum 8 years of related work experience, including experience in an engineering leadership role.

  • Experience and interest in Java, functional programming, and AWS

  • Knowledge and experience with distributed systems, their development, operations, observability.

  • Experience leading modern software engineering teams, cross-functional approach to software development, devOps and automation approaches.

  • Proficient in designing and implementing large scale distributed systems.

  • Previous experience taking ownership of a project and delivering end-to-end with high quality and robust architecture.

  • Ability to dive deep into any technical component as well as understand and drive the overall systems architecture.

  • You're a self-learner, independent, and have excellent problem-solving skills.

  • You care deeply about craftsmanship in your software, and can work backwards from the customer experience.

  • You have excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience building large scale distributed systems, solving problems including scalability, reliability, observability, validation, cost efficiency, etc.

  • Experience deploying and running AWS-based solutions and familiarity with tools such as DynamoDB, Elasticache, Cloud Formation, Lambda, IAM, Kinesis, S3, Firehose, etc.

  • Experience with devOps, building automation and reliability in large scale systems, immutable infrastructure, containerization, including tools such as Jenkins, Docker, EC2, ECS, Cloudwatch, languages like Python, Go.

  • Automated testing at different levels (unit, integration, functional, performance, etc.)


The hiring range for this position in Seattle, WA is $175,800 - $235,700 and in Los Angeles, CA is $167,700 - $224,900 and for San Francisco, CA is $183,700 - $246,400. 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.


Über Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology:

Disney Entertainment und ESPN Technology (DE&E Technology) bildet das technologische Rückgrat und die Produktentwicklung für die beiden Medienbereiche von Disney und trägt dazu bei, das Unternehmen an der Spitze der Innovation zu halten. So die Technologie kontinuierlich genutzt werden, um das Erzählen von Geschichten und die Kreativität zu verbessern und gleichzeitig Skalierbarkeit, Flexibilität und Effizienz für seine Geschäftsbereiche zu bieten.

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 Hulu, LLC, das Teil eines Geschäftssegments ist, das wir Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology nennen.

Hulu, 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.

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