Software Engineer II

The Walt Disney Company • Glendale, CA

6d • $117,500 - $157,500 • Onsite

About The Position

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is seeking a Software Engineer II to join the Audience Data and Measurement (ADM) team within Ad Platforms. This global organization builds and advances the technological backbone for Disney’s media business. The ADM team focuses on helping advertisers reach the right audience and deliver personalized experiences through a unified platform for audience data exchange, enrichment, ad measurement, and high-concurrency, low-latency audience targeting. This role involves working with machine learning, big data, microservices, and data visualization to deliver end-to-end solutions.

As a Software Engineer II, you will leverage your skills in Java, Scala, Python, scripting, DevOps, and data persistence to develop and test new features. You will be a key contributor to application architecture, code quality, and ensuring the team builds the right solutions for users. The role requires a candidate with 4+ years of experience in designing and architecting scalable, secure, and performant big data applications. Experience with big data technologies (Spark, Flink), orchestration and containerization platforms (Airflow, Docker, Kubernetes), and persistence/data streaming technologies (Databricks, Snowflake, Redis, Kafka) is highly valued. Experience in a startup environment and comfort with multiple roles are also desirable. The team operates using agile methodology and lean principles, focusing on delivering high-quality work quickly.

We are looking for a passionate, impactful, and technical contributor who is eager to do their best work, make a mark, and add to the history of The Walt Disney Company. The ideal candidate is accountable, professional, collaborative, and brings a fresh perspective and innovative insight to initiatives.

Requirements

• Hold a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Engineering, or another technical field
• Have 3+ years of experience in big data application development in a large enterprise environment using Java, Scala, Python, including familiarity with modern frameworks and platforms (e.g., Spark, Flink, Singlestore, Kafka, Nifi and AWS big data technologies)
• Be able to demonstrate 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 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
• Solid skills in big data technology (Spark and Flink)
• Expertise with orchestration and containerization platforms (Airflow, Docker and Kubernetes)
• Hands on persistence and data streaming technology experience (Databricks, Snowflake, 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 with Databricks, Snowflake, Presto, Kinesis
• Experience working with vendor teams to deliver high quality results
• Knowledge of performance testing and application profiling
• Strong curiosity about how Disney delivers the Magic and a desire to be a part of it
• Previous experience in a startup environment
• 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: Mid Level