Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Disney Streaming

Job Summary:

Following the successful launch of Disney+ in North America, Australia, and New Zealand, we are looking to hire a Senior SRE to join our New York based squad and continually expanding SRE initiative. Our SRE teams are leading the improvements, optimization, and availability of applications across the Disney Streaming Services organization, taking a consultative approach to SRE by educating, mentoring, and delivering automation to foster performance and resiliency in best practice.

Our SRE teams are focused on the improvements, optimization and availability of our applications. We have taken a consultative approach in that we focus on educating, mentoring and delivering tools to development teams, fostering best practice in terms of performance and resiliency.

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you should be well versed with DevOps methodologies, having had worked in roles requiring your technical expertise for the development of modern tools, having achieved efficient and sustainable operational process and having had collaborated with many software and product teams. These experiences have helped you develop a keen understanding of the core SRE tenets (availability, latency, efficiency, capacity planning, etc…) and their importance to the day to day operations of applications and services.

These experiences have helped you develop a keen understanding of the core SRE tenets - availability, latency, efficiency, change management and capacity planning.

As a senior member, you will be looked at as a mentor, coach and leader by the team.

Responsibilities:

What will you do as a Senior SRE at Disney Streaming Services:

  • Continuously refine monitoring processes, thresholds, and configuration
  • Work closely with product developers to ensure new features have the proper operational support and maintainability - provide deep technical guidance to development teams
  • Consult and advise teams with regards to defining SLOs and SLIs, resulting in metric exposure, measurement and alerting.
  • Help with designing, building and maintaining the cloud-native platform needed to support our growth plans, we do that handling Infrastructure as code and automating as much as we can
  • Mentoring and supporting team members on production readiness and best practices
  • Develop software for the purposes of automating, monitoring and maintaining deployed infrastructure and services
  • Addressing high-severity internal or customer incidents
  • Ensuring we meet all SLOs
  • Help teams create and maintain documentation and runbooks/playbooks
  • Participate in Agile processes and ceremonies
  • Be able to learn to code in new languages
  • Respond to issues and escalations
  • Participate in on-call rotation

Basic Qualifications:

What we’d like to see:

  • Track record of seniority or leadership in a team of Software or Systems Engineers
  • Track record of working as a Site Reliability Engineer, DevOps Engineer, or a Software Engineer
  • Experience in mentoring/coaching Software Engineers
  • Experience using Agile practices
  • Experience with modern open-source infrastructure services and concepts such as Redis, ElasticSearch, Kafka and NoSQL.
  • Experience in at least one scripting language: Python, Ruby, Bash, Perl
  • Experience in software development with Go, Python and JVM languages in general.
  • Experience in working with configuration management and infrastructure as code tools such as Puppet, Chef, SaltStack, Ansible, CloudFormation, Terraform etc.
  • Experience in working with cloud platforms, preferably AWS
  • Exposure to multi-region cloud infrastructure
  • Experience in managing distributed systems
  • Track record of working with Linux systems in production
  • Experience in working with Docker
  • Experience in working with any functional programming language would be beneficial.
  • Experience working with geographically distributed teams would be beneficial.

On offer is a competitive salary which is complemented by a Disney benefits and rewards package which includes LTI bonus (long-term-incentive), pension, holiday allowance, Disney parks & resorts passes and discounts on Disney merchandise.

Additional Information:

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About Disney Streaming Services:

Disney Streaming Services is responsible for developing and operating The Walt Disney Company’s direct-to-consumer video businesses globally, including the ESPN+ premium sports streaming service; the upcoming Disney subscription video service; and BAMTECH Media, a global leader in direct-to-consumer video streaming products and solutions. Our core mission is to deliver global audiences the freedom to access content on their terms across any connected device, time or location. We serve consumers by bringing the world’s most beloved characters, timeless stories, legendary athletes, and epic sporting events to global audiences through best-in-class direct-to-consumer video services. We strive daily to imaginatively challenge convention with innovative technology that gives consumers the freedom to access content on their terms across any connected device, time or location.

About The Walt Disney Company:

The Walt Disney Company, together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading diversified international family entertainment and media enterprise with the following business segments: media networks, parks and resorts, studio entertainment, consumer products and interactive media. From humble beginnings as a cartoon studio in the 1920s to its preeminent name in the entertainment industry today, Disney proudly continues its legacy of creating world-class stories and experiences for every member of the family. Disney’s stories, characters and experiences reach consumers and guests from every corner of the globe. With operations in more than 40 countries, our employees and cast members work together to create entertainment experiences that are both universally and locally cherished.

This position is with Disney Streaming Technology LLC, which is part of a business segment we call Disney Streaming Services.

Disney Streaming Technology LLC is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Disney fosters a business culture where ideas and decisions from all people help us grow, innovate, create the best stories and be relevant in a rapidly changing world.

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