Job Posting Title:
Software Engineer IReq ID:
10064071Job Description:
About the Role & Team
Media Engineering builds the software and systems that prepare media content and metadata for the Disney Streaming platform - providing the best possible playback experience to our viewers.
Media Engineering handles audio, video, and metadata content from ingest through publish - for normalization, processing, and packaging - supporting operator tools and automation for a scalable workflow. We build logic across players and back-end services to measure, control, and optimize playback across our stack. Our combined Disney and Hulu team is looking for hardworking team players to join the Media Engineering team, who will thrive upon the legacy of Disney and Hulu, embrace unconventional thinking, and who are passionate about contributing to The Walt Disney Company’s direct-to-consumer (DTC) experience through strategic hard work and determination.
The Software Engineer I will be part of the Media Status engineering team, which works on building out the scalable distributed systems for processing media that is core to our products. The Media Status team offers observability services of the media processing pipeline. In order to orchestrate media (movies, episodes, events, etc) from the studios onto the streaming platforms, media needs to undergo a substantial amount of processing. This processing ecosystem is complex and constantly evolving. Media Status sits atop that ecosystem, integrating with all its sub-systems. Media Status primarily solves for status, data aggregation, search, and scale. Our team abstracts complexities for consumers through our services, so the media processing pipeline can be more easily monitored and managed.
What You Will Do
You would join a team that works closely together collaborating on projects and initiatives to push our platform forward. You will also frequently work with other teams within the Media Engineering organization to produce successful integrations and excitement to our product consumers. On a typical days you might:
- Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain our software
- Propose, promote, and develop proof of concepts to improve and evolve our software
- Manage individual project priorities, deadlines and deliverables
- Present directly to leadership to influence change
- Contribute to a culture of collaboration and innovation
- Provide on-call rotational support as needed
Required Qualifications & Skills
- BA/BS degree in Computer Science or related software engineering field or equivalent practical experience
- 1-3 years of developing software products
- Experience in programming with Scala or Javascript and proficient with one or more general purpose programming languages (Rust, Java, Scala, Javascript, C#, C++, etc)
Preferred Qualifications
- Knowledge of Functional Programming, in any language
- Some understanding of cloud native architectures, preferably in AWS
Job Posting Segment:
Cross Business GroupsJob Posting Primary Business:
Shared Service-TechnologyPrimary Job Posting Category:
Software EngineerEmployment Type:
Full timePrimary City, State, Region, Postal Code:
New York, NY, USAAlternate City, State, Region, Postal Code:
Date Posted:
2023-10-11More Information
Application Details
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Organization Details
5014 Disney Streaming Technology LLC US