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Sr. Software Engineer, Scala

| New York City, NY | Hybrid
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We are looking for a Sr. Engineer to join the Ecosystem Reliability Engineering (ERE) team. The ERE team is responsible for improving the application experience by increasing Disney Streaming’s reliability and decreasing the acceptable error margin. Additional focus should be to de-risk launches, which include big titles, feature rollouts, and global expansion. The Ecosystem Reliability Engineering reports directly to Disney Streaming’s CTO and is responsible for improving the reliability, performance, and user experience across Disney+, ESPN+, and Hulu.
This is an opportunity to optimize the user’s experience through analyzing Disney Streaming’s entire ecosystem, identifying areas of improvement, and building custom tooling to proactively increase issue identification and triage. The analysis, identification, and recommendations you make will help drive engineering initiatives and priorities.
To be successful in this role, you need to be a strong engineer; always striving to solve complex problems at scale. Preferably having a strong background in distributed services as well as client architecture. Whether you’re in New York, California, Seattle, or remote, we provide opportunities to elevate your career and to transform an industry.
Responsibilities :

  • Partnering with cross-functional teams on identifying, defining, supporting, and improving reliability and performance.
  • Building, maintaining, and improving custom tooling that provides automated analysis of the ecosystem’s health while proactively identifying issues prior to becoming an incident
  • Ability to communicate, discuss, and champion reliability efforts
  • Gather and analyze a variety of data points (qualitative and quantitative) and distill that information down into key insights for engineering.


Basic Qualifications :

  • Reliability efforts and initiatives in a technical organization.
  • Experience with modern SRE practices
  • Cross-functional work with teams of different expertise.
  • Service Reliability/Operational experience running large scale high-performance systems & Internet services.
  • You can write reliable and understandable code in JavaScript, Scala, or other languages (Scala preferable)
  • Big data experience with extracting (e.g. SQL, Snowflake, Databricks, Athena)
  • Comfortable analyzing various logs (HTTP Archive, and various client/service logs)
  • Ability to query and visualize data using Grafana, Kibana, ElasticSearch, cloudwatch or similar


Preferred Qualifications:

  • Subject matter expertise in one or more of the following areas: iOS, Android, browser, or streaming technologies.
  • AWS products and services (Cloudwatch, Athena, DynamoDB, ECS, ElastiCache, Elasticsearch, Kinesis, Lambda, S3, SNS, SQS, etc…) or other cloud providers.


Required Education :

  • BS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering (or equivalent professional experience)


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