The Walt Disney Company · 1 day ago
Software Engineer II - Streaming Data Platform
New York, NY
Full-time
Onsite
Mid Level
$120K/yr - $161K/yr
3+ years expThe Walt Disney Company is a leading diversified international family entertainment and media enterprise. They are seeking a Software Engineer II to join the Streaming Data Platform team, responsible for building tooling, standards, and processes for reliable, real-time data across the organization.
Amusement Park and ArcadeAnimationConsumer GoodsDigital MediaE-CommerceMedia and EntertainmentMulti-level MarketingPerforming ArtsResorts
Responsibilities
Participate in the full lifecycle of software development (requirements gathering, designing, building, testing, maintenance, and support)
Write solid docs, examples, and migration playbooks; participate in code reviews
Join an on-call rotation with support from senior engineers and managers; contribute to post-incident learning
Collaborate with product teams, engineering teams, data analysts and data scientists to design and build data-forward solutions
Integrate with a variety of teams and domains, ranging from advertising, web analytics, and consumer devices
Drive and maintain a culture of quality, innovation and experimentation
Work with other teams, evangelize the platform, best-practices, data driven decisions, identify new use cases and features and drive adoption
Contribute to internal SDKs/agents (Python/Scala/Java) that make adoption 'drop-in.'
Qualification
Required
3 years of software engineering, ideally using a JVM language (Java, Kotlin, Scala is a big plus)
Knowledge and experience with distributed systems, their development, operations, observability
Practical AWS exposure (S3, IAM), and CI/CD familiarity
Automated testing at different levels (unit, integration, functional, performance, etc.)
Cross-functional approach to software development, devOps experience
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
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
Preferred
Experience or interest in Scala, functional programming
Experience with data contracts (OpenAPI, Smithy, Avro, Protobuf, JSON Schema) and code-generation
Experience with streaming data pipelines using tools such as Kinesis, Kafka, Storm, or Flink
Experience with building automation and reliability in large scale systems, immutable infrastructure, containerization, including tools such as Jenkins, Docker, EC2, ECS, K8s, Github Actions
Familiarity with binary data serialization formats such as Protobuf, Parquet, Avro, or Thrift
Benefits
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.
Company
The Walt Disney Company
The Walt Disney Company started as a cartoon studio and evolves into sports coverage and television shows.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$11BKey Investors
Citibank
2020-04-13Post Ipo Debt· $5B
2020-03-20Post Ipo Debt· $6B
1978-01-06IPO
Leadership Team
Robert Iger
CEO
Christine M. McCarthy
Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
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