Lead Software Engineer

On any given day at Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology, we’re reimagining ways to create magical viewing experiences for the world’s most beloved stories while also transforming Disney’s media business for the future. Whether that’s evolving our streaming and digital products in new and immersive ways, powering worldwide advertising and distribution to maximize flexibility and efficiency, or delivering Disney’s unmatched entertainment and sports content, every day is a moment to make a difference to partners and to hundreds of millions of people around the world.

A few reasons why we think you’d love working for Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology

• Building the future of Disney’s media business: DE&E Technologists are designing and building the infrastructure that will power Disney’s media, advertising, and distribution businesses for years to come.

• Reach & Scale: The products and platforms this group builds and operates delight millions of consumers every minute of every day – from Disney+ and Hulu, to ABC News and Entertainment, to ESPN and ESPN+, and much more.

• Innovation: We develop and execute groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms and enhance how audiences experience sports, entertainment & news.

The Ad Platforms team is responsible for building and operating the technology that supports Disney’s industry-leading, multi-billion dollar global advertising business. Working across all of Disney’s streaming brands and linear channels, this team’s scope is wide ranging - they impact everything from core infrastructure development that powers Disney’s proprietary ad server, to reimagining viewer-first ad experiences and formats. This team’s award-winning, in-house built technologies are the backbone of Disney’s ad business and a critical element of the Company’s streaming future. 

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

In addition, Ad Serving teams collaborate in the development of supporting components, such as anti-ad fatigue systems, impression counting pipelines, and ad experience flows. We also work on integrations with critical services responsible for the correct pacing, targeting, and selection of ads.

Responsibilities:

• Writing and reviewing a lot of code and tests

• Available for a weekly-rotating On-Call support schedule

• Reading requirements documentation from Product and translating into

• implementation tickets, and leading the team through execution.

• Defining, reviewing, and documenting software and system designs in a high

• throughput, low latency microservices environment

• Enhancing systems' observability with proper metrics, monitors and alerts

• Delegating tasks to team members, when needed

Basic Qualifications

• BS in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience

• Minimum of 7 years of software engineering experience

• Advanced proficiency with Java, such as understanding heap, multi-threading, profiling

• 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, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study

• SpringBoot and related Spring projects

• 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

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The hiring range for this position in California is $149,240 - $219,200 per year and in Washington is $156,292 to $209,660 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.