Senior Software Engineer (Full Stack), Ad Platforms

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. 

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.

Job Summary:

The ad platform engineering organization within the Disney Entertainment/ESPN Product & Technology organization is fully responsible for building, enhancing, and maintaining the high-performance, distributed, microservice-based, cutting-edge digital advertising platform. The platform enables the configuration, qualification, delivery, and tracking of digital advertisements globally across Disney video-on-demand and Live TV properties, including Hulu, Disney+, ESPN, and more.

As part of ad platform engineering, the programmatic teams build and maintain Disney’s programmatic advertising suite of products and services that comprise Disney's Real-time Ad Exchange (DRAX). DRAX is an award-winning, in-house SSP that enables the configuration of programmatic deals and integrates programmatic demand from multiple third-party sources into the Disney ad server in real time.

As a Full-Stack Senior Software Engineer, you will collaborate with cross-functional partners and engineering teams on the design and implementation of innovative products and features, contributing to the evolution of user-centric advertising at scale.

On a daily basis you should bring:

• A willingness and desire to effectively communicate and collaborate across teams and systems

• An understanding of the importance of project ownership

• A passion for mentoring, learning, and adapting to a very dynamic and fast-paced environment

• An understanding of micro-service encapsulation and loose coupling, and why they are important

• An understanding of how to define technical and operational metrics to measure system health and to manage risk

• Kindness and pragmatic optimism

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

Basic Qualifications:

• 5+ years of software engineering experience.

• Proficiency with Java and ORMs

• Experience with ReactJS or similar frontend frameworks, with the ability to quickly pick up new technologies.

• Relational databases, such as MySQL or Postgres

• Demonstrable analytical / problem-solving skills.

• Great communication, collaboration skills, and a strong teamwork ethic with both technical and non-technical audiences.

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience with:

• SpringBoot and related Spring projects. 

• Cloud platforms such as AWS.

• Modern DevOps tools such as Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes.

• Data Streaming Mechanisms such as Apache Kafka, Kinesis, and/or SNS/SQS.

• Domain knowledge in the Ad Tech industry

Required Education:

• BS or MS in Computer Science / Engineering or relevant work experience

Additional Information

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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 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.