Software Engineer I

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.

Job Summary:

As a member of Disney’s Web Core Services Infrastructure team you will work with a diverse set of technologies to facilitate the release of web applications into production. You will collaborate with application developers, project managers, test engineers, sysadmins, AWS support engineers, and software vendors. You will stitch together internal tools into a cohesive, easily understandable CI/CD system. You will own automation that builds and runs code from multiple locations to create artifacts that are analyzed, tested, published, deployed, and consumed by millions of users around the world.

Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:

• Create and maintain systems that support continuous integration and deployment.
• Automate development and release processes.
• Monitor production infrastructure and perform incident root cause analysis. 
• Participates in the code review to gain validated understanding of the fundamental knowledge of software systems.
• Review and test other developers' code.
• Support application developers and evangelize cloud-first best practices

Basic Qualifications

• Minimum of 0-2+ years of relevant work experience
• Basic foundational programming knowledge of web-based applications.
• Experience working within a modern Javascript workflow.
• Experience with React and frameworks like Next.js or Node

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working across multiple teams in a collaborative environment
• Experience with RFCs and other ways of collaborating and building consensus
• Exposure to large scale systems and applications
• Proven ability to learn, understand, and adapt to new technologies.
• Self-learner who identifies root causes and drives solutions.
• Ability to write code that is easy to read and understand that follows standard methodologies.
• Highly thorough with the ability to clearly detail work.
• Exhibits emotional intelligence, managing oneself under high pressure/stressful situations and meets urgent timelines.
• Optimally collaborates and communicates with team members.

Required Education

• BS Computer Science or related technical discipline or its equivalent

The hiring range for this position in New York, NY and Seattle, WA is $99,900 to $133,900 per year and in Glendale, CA is $95,300 to $127,800 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.