Senior, Software Engineer

Technology is at the heart of Disney's past, present, and future. 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.

This team is responsible for the management of Live and Linear airings across the Disney+ and Hulu spaces. This involves ingesting airings as CNF from Metal, managing linear schedules, contract resolution for blackout or features such as replay/lookback, as well as tools for the management of airings, live events, and stream health and fallback logic.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will:

• Craft web applications specific to managing live and linear scheduling for DTC services
• Manage AWS infrastructure supporting EPG and scheduling ecosystems
• Work on improving system scale and throughput for handling high concurrency
• Contribute to a culture of collaboration and innovation
• Build quality products
• Provide on-call rotational support as needed

Required Qualifications:

• Degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience
• 6+ years developing software products
• Experience in programming with Java or any other Object-oriented programming language
• Advanced level of English
• Experience with AWS and cloud infrastructure
• Media player integration in web apps
• Knowledge of web accessibility and standards
• Familiar with async programming
• Understanding of concurrency and threading
• Skilled in Git, CI/CD, Jenkins, Docker (is a plus)
• Experience with messaging systems (Kafka, Kinesis, SQS) is a plus

The Walt Disney Company offers a dynamic environment where innovation and storytelling are united, creating world-class experiences and products. Join our team to contribute to the technological foundation serving millions worldwide while being part of a company that values creativity, collaboration, and continuous innovation.