Lead Software Engineer at The Walt Disney Company

Santa Monica, California, United States

Not SpecifiedCompensation

Expert & Leadership (9+ years)Experience Level

Full TimeJob Type

UnknownVisa

Entertainment, Media, TechnologyIndustries

Proven experience with working in mission-critical infrastructure
Experience building and maintaining large-scale data systems with varied requirements and large storage capabilities
Enjoyment of building large-scale big data infrastructure

Develop, scale, and improve in-house/cloud and open-source big data engines (e.g. Spark, Flink, Presto/Trino, etc.)
Investigate new big data technology, and apply it to the Disney Streaming production environment
Build next-gen cloud-based big data infrastructure for batch and streaming data applications, and continuously improve performance, scalability and availability
Handle architectural and design considerations such as performance, scalability, reusability, and flexibility issues
Advocate engineering best practices, including the use of design patterns, code review, and automated unit/functional testing
Work together with other engineering teams to influence them on big data system design and optimization
Define and lead the adoption of best practices and processes
Collaborate with senior internal team members and external stakeholders to gather requirements and drive implementation
Collaborate efficiently with Product Managers and other developers to build datastores as a service