Senior Software Engineer, Ad Platforms

Overview

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About Disney Entertainment And ESPN Product & Technology (DEEP&T): 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.

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 Ad Serving Engineering organization within Disney Entertainment and ESPN is responsible for building, enhancing and maintaining the high-performance, distributed, microservice-based Digital Advertising Platform that handles qualification, delivery, and tracking of Digital Advertising campaigns (Video on Demand, Live TV, and interactive ads) across Disney properties including Hulu, Disney+, and ESPN+.

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Ad Serving team, you will apply your knowledge to deliver scalable, performant, maintainable, and testable software.

What You’ll Do: On a daily basis you should bring a willingness to communicate and collaborate across teams, an ownership mindset, a passion for mentoring and learning in a dynamic environment, an understanding of microservice encapsulation and loose coupling, and the ability to define technical and operational metrics to measure system health and manage risk.

Responsibilities

• Writing and reviewing code and tests
• Understanding and use of automated tools (AI) while adhering to company policy
• Available for a weekly-rotating On-Call support schedule
• Reading requirements documentation from Product and translating into implementation tickets
• Reviewing, learning, and documenting software and system designs in a high throughput, low latency microservices environment
• Enhancing systems’ observability with proper metrics, monitors and alerts

Basic Qualifications

• BS 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

Preferred Qualifications

• MS in Computer Science / Engineering
• SpringBoot and related Spring projects; willingness to learn and apply best practices
• Non-relational database technologies e.g. DynamoDB
• Redis and/or MemCache
• Apache Kafka and/or Kinesis
• AWS or other cloud platform
• Terraform, Docker and Kubernetes
• Ad Tech industry experience

Additional Information

The hiring range for this position in Santa Monica, California is $136,038 to $182,490 per year and in Glendale, California is $136,038 to $182,490 per year. The base pay offered will take into account internal equity and may vary depending on region, knowledge, skills, and experience. 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, depending on the level and position offered.