Sr Software Engineer

The Content Experience Delivery organization is composed of teams on a mission to deliver the best browse experience to our viewers across all of the Disney Streaming brands. 

The Hydration Orchestration (H2O) team is at the forefront of that mission! We build critical services that deliver layout information and content metadata directly to end-user devices. Our challenge is to provide low latency and high availability at scale for millions of users, with an interface that can keep up with our constantly-growing streaming applications. We're a fast-paced, dynamic, collaborative and fun team, and looking forward to finding out more about you! 

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will collaborate closely with engineers, project managers, and product managers to find the best solution for our viewers. Your code is easy to read, well-tested, and drives best practices on the team. Your documentation is clear and concise, quick to drive alignment. You value good-faith collaboration and having excellent relationships with our partner teams.  

Responsibilities:  

• Actively participate in daily stand-ups and other scrum ceremonies. 

• Design new solutions and drive alignment across engineering and product teams. 

• Collaborate with team members to design new solutions and drive alignment across partner teams. 

• Break down project work into tasks with reasonable time estimates. 

• Prioritize work within a project to deliver on the most necessary or urgent requirements. 

• Communicate with team members on progress. 

• Write code to implement new features or optimize existing services. 

• Test code through various means: unit tests, integration tests, performance tests, etc. 

• Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation for our tier-1 critical services facing millions of users worldwide.  

• Use logs, monitoring tools, and work with developers to determine root causes across distributed components. 

• Follow industry best practices for service operations regarding CI/CD, monitoring, and investigation of incidents. 

• Perform code reviews for members of the team, bearing a sense of responsibility for approved code. 

• Mentor team members in areas of expertise. Help to onboard new team members. 

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 of 5 years of related experience crafting and operating backend services. 

• Demonstrated knowledge crafting and operating JVM services. 

• Strong grasp of computer science fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, databases, etc). 

• Able to design and drive consensus on backend architectures. 

• Demonstrated knowledge of caching technologies. 

• Demonstrated knowledge of object-oriented programming patterns. 

• Demonstrated knowledge of source control systems and CI/CD pipelines. 

• Demonstrated knowledge of operating within a Public Cloud Provider (e.g., AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud) 

• Demonstrated knowledge of AGILE/Scrum practices. 

• Skilled at work breakdown and task estimation. 

• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal. 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Minimum of 3 years of related experience crafting and operating large-scale, high-availability backend services utilizing various database and messaging technologies. 

• Demonstrated knowledge of messaging technologies (e.g., Kafka, Kinesis, SQS, etc.) 

• Demonstrated knowledge of asynchronous programming. 

• Experience with functional programming patterns. 

• Experience with observability tools for metrics, logging, and monitoring (e.g. Datadog, Splunk, Grafana). 

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