Senior Product Software Engineer - Ad Platform (Audience Team)

The Walt Disney Company • Glendale, CA

1d • $141,900 - $208,400 • Onsite

About The Position

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is a global organization focused on 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. Ad Platforms is responsible for Disney’s industry-leading ad technology and products, driving advertising performance and value across all media platforms. The Audience team within Ad Platforms focuses on helping advertisers reach the right audience and deliver personalized experiences. They offer a unified solution for audience data exchange and enrichment, as well as high-concurrency, low-latency audience targeting services powered by advanced data technologies. This is a dynamic, cross-domain team delivering end-to-end solutions across machine learning, big data, microservices, and data visualization.

Requirements

• Hold a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Engineering, or another technical field
• Have 5+ years of experience in software engineering in a large enterprise environment using Java, Python, Javascript, including familiarity with modern frameworks and platforms (e.g., Spring, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka)
• Be able to demonstrate significant experience working with relational databases, SQL and newer NoSQL data stores as well as event streaming platforms
• Demonstrated ability with cloud infrastructure technologies, including Terraform, K8S, Spinnaker, IAM, ALB, etc.
• Have a strong interest in open source technology
• Knowledge of building highly available and scalable services
• Passion about technologies and openness to interdisciplinary work
• Possess good communication skills and enjoy mentoring and helping others to succeed as a team
• Care about your craft and have opinions about the “right” way to do things with technology
• 4 or more years’ experience in designing and architecting highly scalable, secure, performant, and usable big data applications using Java, Scala and Python
• Deep skills in full stack technology (Java, Spring, RESTful Web Services, Python, Javascript)
• Expertise with orchestration and containerization platforms (Docker and Kubernetes)
• Hands on persistence and data streaming technology experience (MySQL, Oracle, Cassandra, Redis, Kafka)

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related technical discipline is desirable
• Previous work experience in advertising industry-based applications
• Experience working with vendor teams to deliver high quality results
• Knowledge of performance testing and application profiling (Gatling, JProfiler)
• Strong curiosity about how Disney delivers the Magic and a desire to be a part of it
• Previous experience in a startup environment and are comfortable performing multiple roles

Responsibilities

• Build components of large-scale data platform for real-time and batch processing, and own features of big data applications to fit evolving business needs
• Build next-gen cloud based big data infrastructure for batch and streaming data applications, and continuously improve performance, scalability and availability
• Contribute to the best engineering practices, including the use of design patterns, CI/CD, code review and automated test
• Chip in ground-breaking innovation and apply the state-of-the-art technologies
• As a key member of the team, contribute to all aspects of the software lifecycle: design, experimentation, implementation and testing
• Collaborate with team to develop software architectures which are robust, fault-tolerant, and cloud-native
• Possess AWS managed service solution design and implementation experience
• Reason logically and creatively, identifying problems, drawing valid conclusions from the data available, and develop effective solutions while applying creative thinking in the design and development of high performing data applications
• Collaborate with fellow engineers to keep the team’s technology radar and architecture principles aligned to the industry and needs of our users
• Deliver multiple projects utilizing an Agile methodology
• Take a high ownership, self-sufficient, hands-on position on the team to collaborate and drive quality, maintain application stability
• Write complex programs, analyze code changes and suggest improvements
• Check-in valuable, clean code on a daily basis that adds new features and capabilities
• Investigate and resolve any production issues from end user to persistence layer and work to prevent them
• Work with leads, product managers and managers to ensure that all project deliverables are on time and high quality
• Work collaboratively with other service teams

Benefits

• A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package
• full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior