Senior Product Software Engineer
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 Serving Engineering organization within Disney Entertainment and the ESPN organization is fully responsible for building, enhancing, and maintaining the high-performance, distributed, microservice-based Digital Advertising Platform. The platform is charged with the qualification, delivery, and tracking of Digital Advertising campaigns (Video on Demand, Live TV, and innovative interactive ads) across all of Disney online properties, including Hulu, Disney+, and ESPN+. In addition, Ad Serving teams collaborate in the development of supporting components, such as anti-ad fatigue systems, impression counting pipelines, and ad experience flows. We also work on integrations with critical services responsible for the entitlements, correct pacing, targeting, selection of ads, and third-party systems. Ad Experience Team is responsible for maintaining and building advanced ad types and ad formats/experiences to support Disney and Hulu ad server. As a P3 (Senior Software Engineer) of our team, you will apply your knowledge and skills to help us deliver scalable, performant, maintainable, and testable software.
Requirements
- BS or MS in Computer Science / Engineering or relevant work experience.
- 5+ years of software engineering experience.
- Proficiency with Java.
- Demonstrable analytical / problem-solving skills.
- Great communication, collaboration skills, and a strong teamwork ethic with both technical and non-technical audiences.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with SpringBoot and related Spring projects.
- Experience with Non-relational database technologies like DynamoDB.
- Experience with Caching datastores such as Redis, ValKey or MemCache.
- Experience with Data Streaming Mechanisms such as Apache Kafka and/or Kinesis.
- Experience with Cloud platforms such as AWS.
- Experience with Modern DevOps tools such as Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes.
- Domain knowledge in the Ad Tech industry.
Responsibilities
- Designing, implementing, and testing solutions to various engineering problems in a high-throughput, low-latency microservices environment.
- Enhancing systems’ observability with proper metrics, monitors, and alerts.
- Reading and understanding product user stories, and then translating them into actionable tasks.
- Taking ownership of one or more of the team's domain areas.
- Understanding and using automated tools (AI) while adhering to company policy.
- Available for On-Call rotations based on the team’s escalation policy and support schedule.
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
Education Level
Associate degree
