Disney Entertainment & ESPN Product & Technology

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. 

The team marries technology with creativity to build world-class products, enhance storytelling, and drive velocity, innovation, and scalability for our businesses. We are Storytellers and Innovators. Creators and Builders. Entertainers and Engineers. We work with every part of The Walt Disney Company’s 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 you’d love working here: 

Building the future of Disney’s 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, Disney’s technology and products serve as a signature doorway for fans' connections with the company’s brands and stories. Disney+. Hulu. ESPN. ABC. ABC News…and 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. 

Commerce, Data & Identity provides the core product management functions for areas crucial to Disney’s media businesses. These include initiatives and products that power digital commerce, identity, and growth, as well as those that reach uniquely across The Walt Disney Company enterprise, such as messaging and privacy, among others. Additionally, it is responsible for the data engineering, science, and products for Disney Entertainment & ESPN, along with their interconnection with other parts of The Walt Disney Company. 

Engineering Services designs, builds, and sustains technology that powers DE&E Technology’s worldwide content production and distribution platforms. In doing so, they contribute to a series of cross-functional services and technologies, including Quality Assurance, Data Analytics, Software Development, Broadcast Infrastructure, and Networking & Security.

Job Summary:

The Media and Session Data Product (MSDP) team for the Data organization within the DEEPT organization is in search of a Software Engineer II.  As a member of the MSDP team you will build data pipelines and datasets which are a vital key to success – enabling dozens of engineering and analytical teams to unlock the power of media session data to drive key business decisions and provide engineering, analytics, and operational teams the critical information necessary to scale the largest streaming service.  Expanding, scaling, and standardizing the core foundational principles through consistent observability, lineage, data quality, logging, and alerting across all engineering teams in the Data organization is imperative to the creation of a single pane of glass.  The MSDP team is seeking to grow their team of world class Software Engineers that share their charisma and enthusiasm for making a positive impact!

Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:

• Develops, documents, implements and test features within existing systems
• Presents technical issues, solutions and project status to senior and executive team members
• Serves as escalation point for technical problems and maintenance
• Actively contributes to architectural direction, code reviews, design documents, and planning for assigned work
• Able to break down features into prioritized tasks.
• Mentors others in areas they have experience in

Required Education, Experience/Skills/Training:

• 3+ years of hands-on software engineering experience.  
• Designing, building, and maintaining full stack codes utilizing various technical languages e.g. Scala, Java, C++, C, C#, Python, SQL
• Troubleshooting code for bugs using various tools available in the IDE and/or logging
• Write production-grade, maintainable code primarily for data pipelines leveraging Airflow, Databricks Asset Bundles, or Snowflake in Scala.
• Implement complex data transformations using Spark Structured streaming, Spark SQL and core Spark APIs.  
• Own the end-to-end lifecycle of data products from ingestion, transformation, orchestration, to consumption by analytics, ML, and reporting teams.  
• Designing and implementing relational and non-relational database schemas e.g. MySql, Mongodb, Dynamodb
• Using basic and advanced features of code management tools e.g. GitHub
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or relevant technical field

The hiring range for this position in Seattle, WA is $120,300 - $161,300 per year, in San Francisco, CA is $125,800 - $168,700 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.