Software Engineer II - Live Pipeline

The Walt Disney Company

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Remote, USA Posted 15 days ago $117,500–$157,500 / year

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At a glance

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TL;DR

As a Software Engineer II on the Live Pipeline team within Disney’s Product Engineering organization, you will play a crucial role in developing and maintaining high-throughput services that handle media metadata and generate manifests for playback across various streaming platforms. Your day-to-day responsibilities include collaborating with cross-functional teams to build reliable systems, contributing to code reviews, ensuring platform performance and scalability, and troubleshooting complex issues. The ideal candidate has 3+ years of backend development experience, proficiency in Go or C++, and a solid understanding of computer science fundamentals. Expertise in AWS, CI/CD pipelines, and load testing is essential, as is the ability to work both independently and collaboratively. Familiarity with streaming video technologies like DASH, HLS, and CMAF is preferred for this fast-paced, dynamic environment that supports Disney Streaming services including Hulu, Disney+, Star+, and ESPN+.

Skills

AWS Go C++ CI/CD DASH HLS CMAF Python PostgreSQL Kubernetes Terraform Prometheus Grafana

What you'll do

Design and implement large-scale distributed backend services for live streaming.
Ensure fundamental platform performance, scalability, and resiliency in cloud environments.
Contribute to and review code while setting engineering standards within the team.
Troubleshoot complex issues across multiple systems and dependencies collaboratively.
Optimize performance, latency, and cost through creative solutions and load testing.

What we're looking for

3+ years of professional backend development experience.
Strong programming skills in Go/C++ and understanding of computer science fundamentals.
Experience with source control systems and CI/CD pipelines.
Expertise in AWS and deploying/scaling within cloud/on-prem infrastructure.
Ability to work independently and collaboratively, contributing to code reviews.

Market check

Salary context

This $117,500–$157,500 range sits above 28% of similar postings on FindRole.

Peer median band

$123,000–$198,000

Median floor and ceiling across peers.

Typical midpoint (25–75%)

$135,000–$184,900

Middle half of comparable postings.

Based on 240 comparable postings.

* 240 is the maximum number of comparable postings sampled.

Employer

About The Walt Disney Company

The Walt Disney Company is a diversified global entertainment and media enterprise operating in segments including Disney Parks, Experiences and Products; Entertainment (ABC, Hulu, Disney+); and ESPN. Industry: Entertainment & Media

The Walt Disney Company currently has 118 open roles on FindRole.

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