Software Engineer II
$117,500–$165,000 year
On-site · New York City, New York, United States or Seattle, Washington, United States
Job Summary
Software Engineer II responsible for designing and evolving observability tooling and data pipelines for Disney Streaming services. Collaborate to instrument consistent telemetry (metrics/logs/traces), build scalable dashboards and automated reports, automate infrastructure via IaC, and partner with incident response to refine alerting. Own subsystems within the observability platform, contribute to technical design and code reviews, mentor teammates, and help improve reliability and system visibility across distributed services. Requires 3+ years of software engineering experience and a Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering or equivalent; backend proficiency in Go/Java/Python/Node.js; experience with AWS and Kubernetes; familiarity with Grafana/Prometheus/OpenTelemetry or equivalent observability tools; strong emphasis on reliability, incident response, and cross-team collaboration.
Required Qualifications
- 3+ years of experience in software engineering or equivalent training
- Proficiency in one or more backend languages such as Go, Java, Python, or Node.js
- Experience with distributed systems, cloud infrastructure (AWS), and Kubernetes
- Understanding observability fundamentals: metrics, logs, distributed tracing, alerting, SLIs/SLOs
- Ability to break down features into tasks and communicate clearly about technical issues and decisions
- Ability to participate in architecture discussions and contribute to code reviews
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