Lead Product Software Engineer - Data Foundation Platform
About The Position
Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is a global organization responsible for building and advancing the technological backbone for Disney’s media business. The team combines technology with creativity to create world-class products, enhance storytelling, and drive innovation and scalability. They work across The Walt Disney Company’s media portfolio, impacting millions globally. The Ad Platforms team, specifically, is responsible for Disney’s industry-leading ad technology and products, driving advertising performance and innovation across sports, news, and entertainment content on all media platforms. This role is for a Lead Software Engineer on the Data Foundation Platform team, which builds and provides cloud platform and services for data engineering teams and data scientists. These services are crucial for processing data from streaming and web-based businesses like Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN. The ideal candidate will be an experienced engineer skilled in building AI tools and services for knowledge graphs and AI intelligence layers, with a passion for technology and a strong ability to learn quickly. The team values deep thinkers, proactive problem-solvers, and excellent communicators.
Requirements
- 7+ years software engineering experience in developing large projects
- Strong algorithmic problem-solving expertise
- Strong fundamental programming skills in python with knowledge of ML libraries
- Proficient in AWS Bedrock, Snowflake Cortex, Databricks Genie.
- Proficient in Data Engineering technologies like Airflow, Spark, Databricks, Snowflake
- Strong scripting language experience
- Bachelor's or master’s degree in Computer Science or related discipline or its equivalent
Nice To Haves
- Passion to explore new technology and participate in proof of concepts.
- Enjoy new and meaningful technology or business challenges which require you to think and respond quickly.
- Passionate to automation, data, technology, & creative innovation.
- Prior experience building internet scale platforms.
- A robust portfolio on GitHub and / or open-source contributions you are proud to share
Responsibilities
- Contribute to maintaining, updating, and expanding existing AI intelligence layer encompassing Snowflake Cortex, AWS Bedrock
- Good understanding of knowledge management and semantic search with experience in Graph databases and Open Search
- Architect, design, and code shared libraries that abstract complex business logic to allow consistent functionality across all data pipelines in the Data organization.
- Collaborate with product managers, architects, and other engineers to drive the success of the Data&AI strategy.
- Contribute to developing and documenting both internal and external standards and best practices for configurations, naming conventions, partitioning strategies, and more.
- Ensure high operational efficiency and quality of the AI projects.
- Be an active participant and advocate of agile/scrum ceremonies to collaborate and improve processes for our team.
- Engage with and understand our customers, forming relationships that allow us to understand and prioritize both innovative new offerings and incremental platform improvements.
- Maintain detailed documentation of your work and changes to support data quality and data governance requirements.
Benefits
- A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
