JOB SUMMARY

• Actively participate in daily stand-ups and other scrum ceremonies.
• Design new solutions and drive alignment across engineering and product teams.
• Expertly break down work at the epic level, setting project goals.
• Prioritize work within a project to deliver on the most necessary or urgent requirements.
• Anticipate and mitigate risk on projects.
• Effectively communicate with stakeholders on project progress.
• Write code to implement new features or optimize existing services.
• Determine the most efficient means to sufficiently test new code: unit tests, integration tests, performance tests, etc.
• Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation for our tier-1 critical services facing millions of users worldwide.
• Use logs, monitoring tools, and work with developers to determine root causes across distributed components.
• Set standard processes for the team for on-call responsibilities such as deployments, monitoring, and investigating incidents
• Perform code reviews for members of the team, bearing a sense of responsibility for approved code.
• Coach and mentor teammates in an open, supportive, flexible, empathetic manner. Help onboard new team members.
  

Basic qualifications

• Minimum of 7 years of related experience crafting and operating backend services.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience.
• 1+ years of related experience crafting and operating large-scale, high-availability backend services.
• Demonstrated knowledge crafting and operating JVM services.
• Proven track record of designing and driving consensus on backend architectures.
• 1+ years of related experience using caching technologies.
• Demonstrated knowledge of asynchronous programming, object-oriented programming patterns, functional programming patterns, and source control systems and CI/CD pipelines.
• 1+ years experience operating within a Public Cloud Provider (e.g., AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)
• Experience with observability tools for metrics, logging, and monitoring (e.g., Datadog, Splunk, Grafana)
• Demonstrated knowledge of AGILE/Scrum practices.
• Skilled at work breakdown and task estimation.
• Strong communication skills and a desire to share your knowledge with team members and others across Disney Streaming.

Preferred qualifications

• Demonstrated knowledge of messaging technologies (e.g., Kafka, Kinesis, SQS, etc.)

The hiring range for this position is $142,106 to $219,230 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.