Disney is looking for a Software Engineer II to join the API Services team within Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology. In this role, you will build highly available, high-throughput services critical to delivering content to subscribers, focusing on big data and backend engineering.

What You'll Do

Be part of a team of big data and backend engineers to deliver high-value projects.
Build components of a large-scale data platform for real-time and batch processing.
Own features of big data applications to fit evolving business needs.
Participate in building the next-generation service platform on cloud-based big data infrastructure.
Continuously improve performance, scalability, and availability.
Participate in sprint planning, backlog refinement, and retrospectives.
Build automated tests to ensure application reliability.
Participate in code reviews.

What We're Looking For

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent training or work experience.
3+ years of experience in a technical field.
Ability to work with team members and project management to understand requirements and provide technical solutions.
Comfort with ambiguity and being part of conversations with discordant views.
Intermediate understanding of software development fundamentals and architecture.
Experience with Java and Scala, and associated technologies.
Experience building and maintaining highly automated systems using tools like Jenkins, Cloud Formation, Terraform, Kubernetes, and Spinnaker.

Nice to Have

Interest in or experience with web technologies and web system architecture.
Knowledge or experience with AWS products and services (EC2, S3, Lambda, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, CloudFront, etc.) or other cloud providers.

Technical Stack

Languages: Scala, Java, Python
Data Processing: Apache Flink, Spark, Databricks
Cloud (AWS): ECS, Lambda, DynamoDB, Kinesis, CloudFront, WAF

Team & Environment

You will join the API Services team within the Product Engineering organization.

Benefits & Compensation

Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits.
A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided.
Compensation varies by location: New York, NY: $123,000.00 - $165,000.00; San Francisco, CA: $128,700.00 - $172,500.00; Santa Monica, CA: $117,500.00 - $157,500.00.