Join our team as a Product Software Engineer II, focusing on Reliability Platforms. You will engineer critical features, automation, and tooling for the traffic, compute, and streaming platform layers that power Disney Entertainment & ESPN’s production systems. This role offers a unique opportunity to develop expertise in reliability engineering while contributing production code to platforms operating at a global scale. You will be an integral part of an organization composed of three complementary teams: Technical Operations, Reliability Platforms, and Observability & Platform, all working together to ensure robust and scalable production environments.

You will collaborate with experienced engineers, gaining practical knowledge in reliability engineering, Kubernetes, and observability through pairing, code reviews, and dedicated mentorship. Reporting to the Director, Product Software Engineering, this position is essential for maintaining the high availability and performance of our large-scale applications.

As a Product Software Engineer II, you will be instrumental in developing and enhancing our core platform services. Your primary responsibilities include:

- Developing features and automation for traffic, compute, and streaming platform services, ensuring production-quality code with comprehensive test coverage. - Contributing to the advancement of deployment pipelines, infrastructure as code, and crucial reliability tooling. - Authoring and maintaining automated tests across unit, integration, and functional levels. - Implementing comprehensive instrumentation for services, including metrics, logs, and traces, and fine-tuning alerts and dashboards. - Participating in the on-call rotation, providing essential support and contributing to post-incident follow-up activities. - Continuously growing your expertise in AWS, Kubernetes, and site reliability practices through collaborative learning and mentorship.

We are seeking candidates with a strong foundation in software engineering and a passion for reliability. Essential qualifications include:

- A minimum of 3 years of professional software engineering experience. - Proficiency in systems programming languages such as Python, Java, or Go, with a commitment to writing maintainable, well-tested code. - Foundational experience with AWS and Unix/Linux environments. - Exposure to CI/CD pipelines, Docker, and infrastructure as code concepts, with Terraform experience being a significant advantage. - Familiarity with monitoring and observability principles and tools like Datadog, Prometheus, or CloudWatch. - Excellent written and verbal communication skills, coupled with a proactive attitude towards learning reliability engineering practices.

Preferred qualifications include exposure to Kubernetes, coursework in distributed systems, and an interest in streaming data technologies. A Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or equivalent practical experience is required.