Site/System Reliability Engineer (Internal Tooling)

$118,000 - $158,200/Yr

Unclassified - New York, NY

Full-time - Mid Level

New York, NY

About the position

The Site/System Reliability Engineer at Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology plays a crucial role in ensuring the reliability and performance of the technology platform that supports various media and entertainment services. This position involves building internal tools, optimizing performance, and facilitating operational efficiency within a collaborative and agile environment. The engineer will work with a geographically dispersed team to develop software solutions that empower operators to troubleshoot issues independently and support the integration of services across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Work within a geographically dispersed team of developers building software in a collaborative and agile environment
• Build and maintain full-stack internal tools used across the organization for optimized performance and reliability
• Participate in the full-lifecycle of software development (requirements gathering, designing, building, testing and maintenance)
• Support Agile practices within your squad, participating in ceremonies such as standup and planning
• Use AWS products and services (EC2, S3, Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS, Route53, CloudFront, etc.)
• Contribute to an inclusive culture that values learning and development, close collaboration between team members, and strives for excellence

Requirements

• 3+ years of software engineering experience or equivalent qualifications
• Intermediate programming skills in Python, ReactJS
• Experience building RESTful APIs
• Familiarity with cloud computing such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Understanding of source control concepts and exposure to Git or other code repository/hosting solution
• Exposure to build and deployment technologies such as Jenkins and Docker
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience collaborating with team members
• Self-learner, independent, excellent problem-solving skills

Nice-to-haves

• Partner with other engineering teams to deliver best solutions
• Proven architectural skills and ability to communicate about software processes, architectures and design patterns
• Implement best practices to continually increase performance and scalability
• Experience with GraphQL based services
• Knowledge and experience with AWS cloud costs, management of capacity, and optimization strategies
• Understanding of concurrency and asynchronous architecture

Benefits

• Medical insurance coverage
• Financial benefits including bonuses and long-term incentive units
• Opportunities for professional development and learning
• Flexible work environment
• Inclusive company culture