Job Posting Title:
Senior Software EngineerReq ID:
10134962Job Description:
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.
Here are a few reasons why we think you’d love working here:
Building the future of Disney’s media: Our Technologists are designing and building the products and platforms that will power our media, advertising, and distribution businesses for years to come.
Reach, Scale & Impact: More than ever, Disney’s technology and products serve as a signature doorway for fans' connections with the company’s brands and stories. Disney+. Hulu. ESPN. ABC. ABC News…and many more. These products and brands – and the unmatched stories, storytellers, and events they carry – matter to millions of people globally.
Innovation: We develop and implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms, and solve complex and distinctive technical problems.
Ad Platforms is responsible for Disney’s industry-leading ad technology and products – driving advertising performance, innovation, and value in Disney’s sports, news, and entertainment content, across all media platforms.
The Ads Data team is under Ad Platforms and its mission is to transform advertising and Disney's Ad platform with data and AI across TV and streaming video. We build solutions to measure and optimize every aspect of the advertising life cycle. At our core is a strong cross-domain team to deliver E2E solutions covering tech areas ranging from machine learning, big data, microservices to data visualization. Our team is seeking a senior software engineer who will be a core team member for our advertising data platform engineering group. This engineering group focuses on big data infrastructure, operational data, audience solution, inventory forecasting and full funnel measurements as a foundation layer for Disney’s addressable Ad Platforms. The right person for this role should have extensive experience on big data as well as solid expertise on backend services or full stack. If you are someone who is proactive, hardworking, and enthusiastic in these domains, this is a phenomenal role for you!
Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:
WHAT YOU’LL DO
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
Contribute to ground-breaking innovation and apply the state-of-the-art technologies
As a key member of the team, you will contribute to all aspects of the software lifecycle: design, experimentation, implementation and testing.
Collaborate with program managers, product managers, SDET, and researchers in an open and innovative environment
Own end-to-end delivery of substantial features or subsystems.
Promote a positive, inclusive, and collaborative engineering culture.
Identify and resolve root causes of complex production issues.
Provide constructive feedback and mentorship to junior engineers.
Required Education, Experience/Skills/Training:
WHAT TO BRING
Bachelor or above in computer science or EE
5+ years of professional programming in Scala, Python, and etc.
3+ years of big data development experience with technical stacks like Spark, Flink, Airflow, Singlestore, Kafka and AWS big data technologies
Deep understanding of data modeling, distributed systems, and performance optimization
Knowledge of system, application design and architecture
Experience of building industry level high available and scalable service
Passion about technologies, and openness to interdisciplinary work
Excellent communication and collaboration skills
NICE-TO-HAVES
Hands-on experience with Databricks for development and deployment of data pipelines.
Experience with data governance, compliance, or observability tooling.
Demonstrated ability with cloud infrastructure technologies, including Terraform, K8S, Spinnaker, IAM, ALB, and etc.
Experience with Snowflake, Kinesis, lambda etc.
Experience in MicroService framework like Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, FastAPI, NestJS etc.
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Full timePrimary City, State, Region, Postal Code:
Glendale, CA, USAAlternate City, State, Region, Postal Code:
USA - CA - Market St, USA - WA - 925 4th AveDate Posted:
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