Principal Software Engineer

Overview:

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 Disney’s 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 maximize 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.

The Product & Data Engineering team is responsible for end to end development for Disney’s world-class consumer-facing products, including streaming platforms Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+, and digital products & experiences across ESPN, Marvel, Disney Studios, NatGeo, and ABC News. The team drives innovation at scale for millions of consumers around the world across Apple, Android, Smart TVs, game consoles, and the web, with our platforms powering core experiences like personalization, search, messaging and data.

A few reasons why we think you’d love working for Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology:

• Building the future of Disney’s media business: DE&E Technologists are designing and building the infrastructure that will power Disney’s 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 execute groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms and enhance how audiences experience sports, entertainment & news.

The Hulu Discovery team builds systems that provide data at scale. We implement reliable, high-request services that deliver data that helps power the Hulu user experience across web, mobile, and living room devices. We are looking for a software engineer who wants to build and operate these critical services that support a massive population of Hulu viewers!

We're a fast-paced, dynamic, collaborative and fun team, and looking forward to finding out more about you!

Job Summary:

You'll join a hardworking group of engineers who build and manage systems that publish data to Hulu’s internal and edge-facing services - ultimately powering Hulu clients running on smart TVs, smartphones, gaming consoles, FireTV, Apple TV, Roku, and others.

We're passionate about data - just like you! You'll apply your experience with database technologies to construct distributed, large-scale services.

Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:

• Work with product stakeholders to design solutions related to the discovery of content for Hulu viewers

• Work with engineering stakeholders to design resilient, scalable architectures that span many teams and services.

• Work with engineering teams to execute on your designs and contribute the solutions of others

• Lead engineering teams in the execution of your solutions

• Mentor individual engineers with the aim of growing technical and domain expertise

• Make a case for your ideas by presenting to engineering and product stakeholders

• Manage a broad set of work and provide clear information to stakeholders on the status of your efforts

Basic Qualifications:

• Strong programming skills in Java and other object-oriented languages, and a strong grasp of computer science fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, databases, etc.)

• Strong architectural design capabilities

• A pragmatic approach to execution that focuses on frequently delivering value to Hulu’s viewers

• Strong discipline to delegate work and focus on solving management problems

• Strong verbal/written communication and data presentation skills

• A broad perspective on problem-solving

• An ability to work both independently and collaboratively

• 10+ years of experience crafting large-scale, highly available Java services utilizing various database and messaging technologies

• Experience designing complex, broad system architectures

• Experience operating highly critical production services

• Experience establishing and maintaining observability best practices

• Experience designing systems for three 9s resiliency

• Deep experience building on AWS

• Experience deploying and scaling within a cloud infrastructure.

• Experience managing heavy data including ingesting, cleansing, validation, and analysis

• Experience with tools and methodologies for identifying patterns in data

• Deep experience with data systems including databases, messaging systems, distributed data computing and analytics such as Spark, Flink, Hadoop, EMR

• Preferred experience directly managing and mentoring a team

Required Education:  

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

The hiring range for this position in San Francisco is $197,900 to $265,400 per year, in Seattle or New York is $189,300, to $253,800 per year and in Santa Monica is $180,700 to $242,300 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.