Description
Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is seeking a Lead Product Software Engineer to join the Content Platform Engineering team. The team is responsible for building and operating content inspection pipelines that enable intelligent analysis of media assets at scale.
The Lead Product Software Engineer will lead the development of systems that apply computer vision and vision language models (VLMs) to video and image content, extracting fine-grained temporal metadata. They will influence architectural direction for these pipelines, partner with platform and domain teams, and ensure systems are reliable, scalable, and production-ready.
Responsibilities and duties of the role:
- Technical Execution and Problem Solving: Lead execution across complex and ambiguous problem spaces by translating product and business requirements into effective technical solutions.
- Write and Maintain Software Solutions: Design, write, test, and deploy high-quality code to develop reliable, maintainable software solutions.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with platform engineers, product teams, and other stakeholders to align on technical approaches and ensure solutions effectively support business goals.
- Production Support: Provide production support through issue investigation, on-call participation, and remediation of defects to ensure stable and reliable system operation.
- Engineering Quality and Best Practices: Raise engineering quality by mentoring peers and promoting strong practices in design reviews, code reviews, testing, and documentation.
Required education, experience/skills/training:
- 7+ years relevant industry experience
- Strong proficiency in at least one core programming language (e.g., Java, Python)
- Experience designing and building distributed systems and APIs (REST and/or GraphQL)
- Strong experience with AWS and cloud-native system design
- Proven ability to understand product requirements and business needs and translate them into effective, scalable technical solutions
- Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies in production environments
- Expertise with full lifecycle of application development, including best practices of unit testing, code reviews, documentation, etc.
- Experience with a wide range of data store technologies
- Experience in Agile/Scrum methodology
- Team player with strong oral and written communications skills
The hiring range for this position in Bristol, CT and in Glendale, CA is $158,100.00 - $211,900.00 per year.