Software Engineer II

Job Posting Title:

Software Engineer II

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Job Description:

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology

Technology is at the heart of Disneys 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 Disneys media business globally.

The team marries technology with creativity to build world-class products enhance storytelling and drive velocity innovation and scalability for our are Storytellers and Innovators. Creators and Builders. Entertainers and Engineers. We work with every part of The Walt Disney Companys media portfolio to advance the technological foundation and consumer media touch points serving millions of people around the world.

Here are a few reasons why we think youd love working here:

Building the future of Disneys media: Our Technologists are designing and building the products and platforms that will power our media advertising and distribution businesses for years to come. Reach Scale & Impact: More than ever Disneys technology and products serve as a signature doorway for fans connections with the companys brands and stories. Disney. Hulu. ESPN. ABC. ABC Newsand many more. These products and brands and the unmatched stories storytellers and events they carry matter to millions of people globally. Innovation: We develop and implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms and solve complex and distinctive technical problems.

Product Engineering is a unified team responsible for the engineering of Disney Entertainment & ESPN digital and streaming products and platforms. This includes product engineering media engineering quality assurance engineering behind personalization commerce lifecycle and identity.

The Observability & Insights group ensures that Disney Streamings distributed systems are reliable performant and transparent. We build the telemetry dashboards alerting insights pipelines and developer experience tooling that enable engineers across the organization to understand system health and take action quickly.

Job Summary:

We are seeking a Software Engineer who is passionate about observability tooling data and this role you will contribute to building and improving components that support how engineering teams collect analyze and act on critical system data. You will work alongside other engineers to implement solutions that enhance visibility into systems support the development lifecycle and improve reliability and performance.

This role is encouraged to leverage modern AI tools to enhance development workflows and productivity. We are looking for engineers who are interested in learning and applying emerging technologies in practical ways across the engineering lifecycle.

If youre passionate about observability analytics and solving technical problems as part of a team wed love to hear from you.

Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:

• Contribute to the development and maintenance of components that support observability tools data pipelines and engineering systems.
• Collaborate with teammates to implement features that improve system monitoring data collection and analysis.
• Learn and apply AI-assisted development tools to improve coding efficiency and workflow productivity.
• Help implement updates to existing engineering data models and integrations across systems.
• Assist in debugging issues and contribute to root cause analysis under guidance from senior engineers.
• Support the delivery of data-driven insights that help improve system performance and reliability.
• Identify small opportunities to improve code quality documentation or team processes.

Required Education Experience/Skills/Training:

Basic Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of professional experience in software development.
• Experience building and maintaining applications using modern programming languages (e.g. Golang TypeScript Python Java C Rust) and frameworks (e.g. React Angular).
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.
• Experience with modern development practices including version control (e.g. GitHub) and CI/CD or configuration-based deployments (e.g. Kubernetes Terraform CloudFormation).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with observability platforms (e.g. Datadog Splunk New Relic).
• Familiarity with data platforms and databases such as Databricks Snowflake MySQL or PostgreSQL.
• Experience working in large-scale engineering environments.
• Exposure to distributed systems or streaming platforms; understanding of client-server architecture is a plus.
• Exposure to using data or observability tools to support engineering improvements.

Education

• BS in a quantitative field (Computer Science Engineering Math/Statistics or similar).

Preferred Education

• Masters in a quantitative field (Computer Science Engineering Math/Statistics or similar).

The hiring range for this position in Seattle WA and New York NY is $123000 - $165000 per year and in Glendale CA is $117500 - $157500. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidates 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.

Job Posting Segment:

PE - Sports News & Entertainment Tech Enablement

Job Posting Primary Business:

PE - Sports News & Entertainment Enablement - News & Entertainment Engineering

Primary Job Posting Category:

Software Engineer

Employment Type:

Full time

Primary City State Region Postal Code:

Seattle WA USA

Alternate City State Region Postal Code:

USA - CA - 1200 Grand Central Ave USA - NY - 7 Hudson Square

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Required Experience:

IC