Company:
The Walt Disney Company
Location: Seattle
Closing Date: 08/11/2024
Salary: £150 - £200 Per Annum
Hours: Full Time
Type: Permanent
Job Requirements / Description
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.
The API Registry team’s mission is to enable all software teams to take a contract first approach to development. This is an approach to API design and maintenance that solves the common problem of specifications and implementations drifting over time, and it does so while reducing levels of boilerplate code across the board and increasing joy.
Job Summary:
The API Registry is a location and set of workflows used for collaboration on, validation, and sharing of specifications. It is used in conjunction with both pre-existing and internally developed code generation toolkits to enable development teams to more easily develop services using the contract-first methodology, reducing time to market, defect rates, and cross-service integration friction.
The Lead Software Engineer is involved in planning, scoping, solution architecting, software design, and implementation, leveraging cloud-native, commercial, and open-source tools and frameworks to solve complex business needs:
Basic Qualifications
Department/Group Overview:
Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology
On any given day at Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology, we’re reimagining ways to create magical viewing experiences for the world’s most beloved stories while also transforming Disney’s media business for the future. Whether that’s evolving our streaming and digital products in new and immersive ways, powering worldwide advertising and distribution to maximize flexibility and efficiency, or delivering Disney’s unmatched entertainment and sports content, every day is a moment to make a difference to partners and to hundreds of millions of people around the world.
A few reasons why we think you’d love working for Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology:
- Building the future of Disney’s media business: DE&E Technologists are designing and building the infrastructure that will power Disney’s media, advertising, and distribution businesses for years to come.
- Reach & Scale: The products and platforms this group builds and operates delight millions of consumers every minute of every day – from Disney+ and Hulu, to ABC News and Entertainment, to ESPN and ESPN+, and much more.
- Innovation: We develop and execute groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms and enhance how audiences experience sports, entertainment & news.
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.
The API Registry team’s mission is to enable all software teams to take a contract first approach to development. This is an approach to API design and maintenance that solves the common problem of specifications and implementations drifting over time, and it does so while reducing levels of boilerplate code across the board and increasing joy.
Job Summary:
The API Registry is a location and set of workflows used for collaboration on, validation, and sharing of specifications. It is used in conjunction with both pre-existing and internally developed code generation toolkits to enable development teams to more easily develop services using the contract-first methodology, reducing time to market, defect rates, and cross-service integration friction.
The Lead Software Engineer is involved in planning, scoping, solution architecting, software design, and implementation, leveraging cloud-native, commercial, and open-source tools and frameworks to solve complex business needs:
- Builds solutions for problems of sizable scope and complexity, which have been successfully deployed for customers/users.
- Provide support to platform users related to platform onboarding, issue resolution, ad hoc code debugging, and platform bug fixes.
- Builds and enhances Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.
- Writes code that establishes and enhances frameworks, typically for software programs and systems that have little or no precedent.
- Reviews code for readability, maintainability, testability, and clear usability.
- Leads in project proposal, architecture, and design. Contributes to architecture design and implementation of assigned projects and may lead in the effort.
- Provides integration and platform support to internal users and teams.
Basic Qualifications
- 7 years of intermediate to advanced coding experience with one or more of the following programming languages: Scala.
- Experience writing, maintaining and deploying RESTful services.
- Experience integrating with CI/CD platforms and tool chains such as GitHub, Artifactory, Gitlab, and Jenkins.
- Experience with specification languages such as OpenAPI and Smithy.
- Experience with one or more of the following programming languages: Java, Kotlin.
- Experience applying security best practices to application, system, and public cloud infrastructure.
- Amazon Web Services-based infrastructure and management including some of: Route 53, ALB, EC2, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, Lambda, VPC, ECS, EKS, IAM, S3, etc.
- BS Computer Science or related technical discipline or its equivalent.
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