Senior Software Engineer

Job Description

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology

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 Audience Data and Measurement (ADM) team is part of Ad Platforms, with a mission to help advertisers reach the right audience and deliver personalized, optimized experiences tailored to customer needs and interests. Our ADM Platform offers a unified solution for audience data exchange and enrichment, Ads measurement, as well as high-concurrency, low-latency audience targeting

services powered by advanced data technologies. This is a dynamic, cross-d main team delivering end-to-end solutions across diverse technical areas, including machine learning, big data, microservices, and data visualization.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will use your deep Java, Scala, Python, scripting, DevOps, and data persistence skills to write and test code that delivers new features for our application portfolio. You will be an important part of a motivated team where we’ll be looking for you to collaborate with the team

to contribute to application architecture, code quality, and make sure we are building the right things for our users. We want someone that has 4 or more years’ experience in designing and architecting highly scalable, secure, performant, and usable big data applications using Java, Scala and Python. The

ideal candidate would possess solid skills in big data technology (Spark and Flink), while having expertise with orchestration and containerization platforms (Airflow, Docker and Kubernetes), coupled with hands on persistence and data streaming technology experience (Databricks, Snowflake, Redis, Kafka).

While The Walt Disney Company is a large company, ideally, we’d like it if you have some previous experience in a startup environment and are comfortable performing multiple roles. We strive to get things done quickly, with high quality, and we are committed to the agile methodology. Our work is guided by lean principles (looking at value and looking for waste; not doing anything ‘for the sake of doing it’).

We’re looking for a passionate, impactful, technical contributor who wants to come here to do their very best work and make their mark, add their chapter to the long and storied history of The Walt Disney Company. Someone who holds themselves and their teammates accountable in a professional, collaborative manner. A collaborative technologist who seeks to bring the best out in themselves and those around them. Someone who can provide a fresh perspective and innovative insight to our initiatives.

Responsibilities and Duties of the Role :

Required Education, Experience / Skills / Training :

Hold a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Engineering, or another technical field

Have 4+ 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

Preferred Qualifications :

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The hiring range for this position in Santa Monica, CA is $138,900 - $186,200 per year, in San Francisco, CA is $152,100 - $203,900 per year, in Seattle, WA is $145,400 - $195,000 per year, and in New York, NY is $145,400 - $195,000 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. 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.