Principal Software Engineer - Ad Experiences
About The Position
Technology is at the heart of Disney’s past, present, and future. Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is a global organization of engineers, product developers, designers, technologists, data scientists, and more – all working to build and advance the technological backbone for Disney’s media business globally. The team marries technology with creativity to build world-class products, enhance storytelling, and drive velocity, innovation, and scalability for our businesses. We are Storytellers and Innovators. Creators and Builders. Entertainers and Engineers. We work with every part of The Walt Disney Company’s media portfolio to advance the technological foundation and consumer media touch points serving millions of people around the world. The Ad Experiences Fleet aims to unleash the magic of Disney by leveraging cutting-edge creative tools and fostering creative innovation to craft captivating, interactive ad experiences that deeply resonate with consumers and deliver superior value for our advertisers while enhancing the viewer experience to maximize revenue. As part of our team, you’ll develop and own systems that enable rapid prototyping, testing, and validation of interactive ad formats with real viewers and advertisers—fueling innovation and revenue growth across our CTV platforms. These experiences are then integrated into creative platforms also owned by the Fleet leading to new ad experiences available to all ad tier users. As our team's Principal Software Engineer, you will apply your battle-tested experience, deep technical knowledge of software and systems, and leadership skills to help teams create scalable, performant, maintainable, and testable systems.
Requirements
- BS or MS in Computer Science/Engineering or relevant work experience
- 10+ years of software engineering experience
- Advanced proficiency with Java, such as understanding heap, multi-threading, garbage collection, profiling
- Demonstrable analytical / problem-solving / design skills in a highly distributed and highly available services ecosystem
- Excellent communication, collaboration skills, and a strong teamwork ethic with both technical and non-technical audiences
- Comprehensive experience with: SpringBoot and related Spring projects
- Non-relational database technologies e.g. DynamoDB
- Redis and/or MemCache
- Apache Kafka and/or Kinesis
- AWS or any other cloud platform
- Observability tooling (logs, metrics, etc)
Nice To Haves
- Comprehensive experience with Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes
- Ad Tech Industry knowledge.
Responsibilities
- Writing some and reviewing a lot of code and tests.
- Reviewing code and test implementations for best practices and algorithmic complexity.
- Available to support engineers on an On-Call shift, when needed.
- Reading requirements documentation from Product, providing a perspective on feasibility and translating into implementation tasks, and partnering with teams’ leads through execution as needed.
- Exploring, researching, implementing proofs-of-concept, and proposing solutions that will improve Ad Serving systems (reduce cost and overhead, improve maintainability, minimize the time features take to be in production, etc).
- Defining, reviewing, and documenting software and system designs in a high throughput, low latency microservices environment.
- Enhancing systems’ observability with proper metrics, monitors, and alerts.
- Foster open communication during architectural discussions, confidently defending decisions while welcoming feedback.
- Bridge the gap between diverse team requirements and technical capabilities to deliver cohesive, scalable solutions.
- Mentoring and inspiring others in all aspects of professional software development.
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
Principal
Education Level
Associate degree
