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The Walt Disney Company Senior Software Engineer - Infrastructure & Devops in Glendale, California
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.
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.
The Ads & Data Platform team is responsible for building and delivering the technology that supports Disney’s industry-leading, multi-billion dollar advertising business. Working across all of Disney’s streaming and linear channels, this team’s scope is wide ranging – they impact everything from core infrastructure development to the viewer-first ad formats subscribers see on their screens. Award-winning technologies, like the proprietary Disney Ad Server or DRAX, Disney’s programmatic advertising solution, are the backbone of Disney’s ad business and a key driver of Disney’s future success. What sets Disney’s advertising business apart, and what makes working here such a cool opportunity, is a combination of: world-class advertising technology built in-house, and the most beloved brands, franchises, and content.
The Ad Infrastructure team is seeking a dedicated Senior software and cloud engineer to join our team. Our systems enable DevOps practices so teams’ feature releases can be faster and more stable in production. Our platforms and tools reduce the cognitive load of ownership and operations so that teams can devote the majority of their time to delivering business value.
Job Summary
You’ll write automation tools to support developers deploying and running cloud infrastructure.
You will implement and execute best practices and security standards for operating in the cloud.
You will contribute to a library of shared terraform modules.
When we hit the limits of our scale, you will participate in investigations and RCA’s to continuously improve by learning from failures.
Work with infrastructure tooling and be a good resource for forming cloud infrastructure as code.
Participate in on-call rotations.
Provide support to dev teams for our tooling and platform.
Basic Qualifications
Bachelors in Computer Sciences or similar field
5+ years of relevant experience
5+ years of experience with Python or Go
5+ years of experience with Kubernetes or EKS
Advanced expertise in AWS, Terraform, automation and devops workflows
Experience with Spinnaker and Docker
Preferred Qualifications
AWS Certifications
Experience with Unix/Linux systems
Experience with Airflow
Experience with Istio
The hiring range for this position in Los Angeles, CA is $136,030 to $182,490 per year, in San Francisco is $148,994 to $199,870 per year, and New York, NY or Seattle, WA is between $142,516 – 191,180. 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.
Job ID: 10065189
Location: Glendale,California
Job Posting Company: Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology
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