Description
Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Data Stores team. The successful candidate will help build and maintain highly available relational database systems operating across multiple cloud environments. These databases support many of the systems powering DEEP&T's digital media supply chain and consumer-facing products.
The Senior Software Engineer will analyse, design, program, debug, and modify software enhancements and new products for use in local, networked, cloud-based, or Internet-related computer programs. This role delivers large or highly complex software programs and systems that are critical to the organisation's technology platforms and commercial applications.
Responsibilities:
- Building, deploying, and ensuring all DEEP&T database infrastructure is available 24/7/365
- Leveraging software development and automation to design, modernise, and deliver database infrastructure
- Participating in setting the architectural direction for database platforms and projects
- Managing multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced, deadline-oriented environment
- Analysing, designing, and deploying fault-tolerant, distributed, and highly available database infrastructure
- Proactively planning and implementing infrastructure changes through capacity forecasting, software release cycles, and right-sizing
- Providing database expertise through performance tuning, troubleshooting, and administration
- Developing, enhancing, and adhering to engineering and administration standards
- Developing automation and tooling to increase operational efficiency while ensuring system reliability and security
- Building infrastructure and systems for scalability, resiliency, availability, and recovery through infrastructure as code and configuration management
- Providing relevant insights of data store infrastructure through metrics, monitoring, and alerting
- Maintaining thorough and well-written documentation
- Participating in live event support and on-call rotation
- May provide oversight and direction to junior team members
- Building relationships with engineering teams and leads
Basic Qualifications:
- 5+ years of related work experience with relational database systems such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, Amazon RDS, and Amazon RDS Aurora
- BA/BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent technical experience
- Fundamental understanding of database internals for at least one of the above database engines
- Experience working in Agile software development
- Experience with source control management tools (Git, GitLab, GitHub)
- Intermediate to advanced level of expertise in one or more programming languages such as Python, Java, or Go
- Experience running, deploying, and maintaining production cloud infrastructure in Amazon Web Services
- General understanding and experience with Linux operating system, network, and containers
- Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Experience designing and deploying fault-tolerant, distributed, and highly available database infrastructure
- Experience with disaster recovery planning and implementation
- Carries out assignments with little coaching or guidance from others
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience operating within a database reliability engineering (DRE) and/or systems reliability engineering (SRE) role
- Experience building a proper path to production leveraging multiple lifecycles, testing, integration, and CI/CD pipelines
- Experience running, deploying, and maintaining production cloud infrastructure in Azure and GCP
- Experience with configuration management (Ansible, Chef)