Sr Software Engineer - and Linear Tooling

Sr Software Engineer - Live and Linear Tooling

Location:

New York, New York, United States / Seattle, Washington, United States

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology 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.

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer to join our Live and Linear Tooling team, focusing on the management of live and linear content across the Disney+, ESPN and Hulu spaces. The applications in this space are responsible for ingestion of live and linear feed metadata from upstream partners, managing linear schedules to ensure no gaps or overlaps between airings on a single channel, contract resolution for blackout features such as replay/lookback, and tools for managing airings, live events, and stream health and fallback logic.

• Write and Maintain Software Solutions: Design, write, test, and deploy high-quality code to develop reliable, maintainable software solutions.
• Collaborate with Cross-Functional Teams: Work closely with software engineers, product managers, and program managers to ensure technical solutions effectively support business goals and content strategies. Foster a culture of collaboration and continuous learning.
• Production Support: Monitor and optimize production systems, ensuring platform stability, performance, and uptime.

• 5+ years relevant industry experience
• Proficiency in at least one object-oriented programming language (e.g., Java, Python)
• Solid understanding of software design principles, algorithms, and data structures
• Expertise with full lifecycle of application development, including best practices of unit testing, code reviews, documentation, etc.
• Experience with a wide range of data store technologies such as Redis, Elasticsearch, Postgres, and DynamoDB
• Experience in Agile/Scrum methodology
• Team player with strong oral and written communication skills

• Proficiency in Java
• Experience with high scale, high availability systems
• Deep AWS experience (Lambdas, Kinesis Streams)
• Kubernetes experience in production environments
• Observability tooling experience (e.g., Datadog)
• Experience breaking down ambiguous business requirements into technical designs

• Experience working with REST APIs for building and consuming services.
• Experience with cloud platforms like AWS and their core services (e.g., S3, Lambda, EC2).
• Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience with build and deployment technologies such as Docker, Gitlab-CI, Terraform/Cloud formation, and Jenkins.
• Experience with frameworks such as Spring, Spring Boot.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience.

The hiring range for this position in New York City, NY and Seattle, WA is $ to $ 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.

At Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology, we’re blending imagination and innovation to reimagine the ways people experience and engage with the world’s most beloved stories and products. Our work is wide‑ranging and deeply sophisticated. We create amazing experiences, transform the future of media, and build products and platforms that enable the connection between people everywhere and the stories and sports they love.

Disney’s ability to marry world‑class technology with one‑of‑a‑kind creativity makes us unique. It is at the heart of our past, present, and future.

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