Senior Software Developer - Build Tooling Development
Role Overview
This position must sit onsite four (4) days a week in one of our technology offices listed above
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.
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.
Key Skills for This Role
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Responsibilities:
- Work with a team of engineers building software in a collaborative software development process to achieve the teams' goals
- Build and maintain software to abstract build, release, and deploy events for use by dozens of development organizations
- Understand the needs of the 1000s of developers that use our software and actively and measurably improve their experience
- Work directly with app development teams to determine needs and implement CI/CD best practices
- Lead the development of critical features ensuring they meet user needs and fit for purpose
- Support critical build and artifact storage systems for the entire organization
- Participate in the on-call rotation, supporting systems and services during production incidents
Qualifications:
- Minimum of 5 years relevant professional experience
- Proficiency in at least one modern programming language, such as Python, Java, C++, C, C#, etc.
- Familiarity with scripting in Bash / Powershell
- Understanding of a modern collaborative SDLC and experience with a variety of workflows, processes and techniques, i.e.: Scrum, Kanban, GitOps, Monorepos, Micro Services, Feature Flagging, etc
- Experience working with version-controlled environments and CI/CD workflows. Proficiency in setting up and maintaining pipelines with at least one of:
- GitLab CI
- GitHub Actions
- TeamCity
- Jenkins
- Argo
- SonarQube (for code quality and scanning)
- In-depth knowledge of Linux:
- File systems, user and group management, process control, permission schemes.
- SSH key management and secure shell operations.
- Cloud Platforms:
- Hands-on experience with AWS core services i.e. EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch, etc.
- Understanding of the wider AWS ecosystem and knowledge of other cloud providers desirable
- Containers & Orchestration:
- Docker: Experience building, running, and debugging containerized applications.
- Kubernetes and Helm: Operational knowledge of deploying workloads via manifests or Helm charts.
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- Experience provisioning and managing infrastructure using through code and configuration using tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, etc
- Familiarity with AI tooling within the software development lifecycle and how to effectively integrate and utilize these tools to enhance development processes
- Ability to effectively collaborate with remote team members
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- BA/BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent technical experience
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