Manager, Software Engineering

Overview:

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.

The Product & Data Engineering team is responsible for end to end development for Disney's world-class consumer-facing products, including streaming platforms Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+, and digital products & experiences across ESPN, Marvel, Disney Studios, NatGeo, and ABC News. The team drives innovation at scale for millions of consumers around the world across Apple, Android, Smart TVs, game consoles, and the web, with our platforms powering core experiences like personalization, search, messaging and data.

The Hulu Discovery team builds systems that provide data at scale. We implement reliable, high-request services that deliver data that helps power the Hulu user experience across web, mobile, and living room devices. We are looking for a software engineer who wants to build and operate these critical services that support a massive population of Hulu viewers!

Responsibilities:

• Guide an engineering team in its ownership of systems and processes
• Collaborate with engineering and product leadership to establish priorities
• Champion cross-team projects
• Collaborate efficiently with product management, technical program management, operations, and other engineering teams
• Provide priority and roadmap guidance to engineers and project managers
• Provide input for stakeholders and decision makers in architecture, roadmap, and product
• Communicate architecture, roadmap, and product objectives to engineers
• Coach and mentor other specialists on the team
• Work with individual engineers to map out career growth and goals
• Create an environment of trust for people to be themselves and able to excel

Basic Qualifications:

• Strong discipline to delegate work and focus on solving management problems
• Strong verbal/written communication and data presentation skills
• A broad perspective on problem-solving
• Strong programming skills in an object-oriented language
• 8 years of experience in software engineering
• 5+ years of related experience crafting large-scale, highly available Java services
• 3 years of experience as a manager of software engineers
• Experience deploying and scaling within a cloud infrastructure
• Experience using source control systems and CI/CD pipelines

Required Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience

The hiring range for this position in San Francisco is $180,200 to $241,600 per year, in Seattle or New York is $172,300, to $231,100 per year and in Santa Monica is $164,500 to $220,600 per year.