Senior Software Engineer, Ad Platforms

About the position

Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology is focused on creating magical viewing experiences and transforming Disney's media business. The Ad Platforms organization is responsible for building and maintaining a high-performance, distributed, microservice-based Advertising Platform across all Disney online properties. The Forecasting team within Ad Platforms supports Ads Inventory Forecasting business requirements, providing unified inventory forecasting modeling and result accessing. This role is for a Senior Software Engineer with extensive experience in big data and backend services.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to a team of big data and backend engineers to deliver high value projects
• Build components of large-scale data platform for batch and real-time 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
• Balance architectural and design considerations such as performance, scalability, reusability and flexibility issues
• Advocate the best engineering practices, including the use of design patterns, CI/CD, code review and automated test
• Collaborate with researchers to productize cutting edge innovations at scale
• Collaborate with program managers, product managers, SDET, and researchers in an open and innovative environment

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electronics Engineering, or related field
• 5+ years of professional programming in Java, Scala, Python, etc.
• 3+ years of big data development experience with technical stacks such as Spark, Hive, SingleStore, Airflow, and AWS
• Strong knowledge of system/application design and architecture
• Experience building industry level high available and scalable service
• Experience with processing large amount of data at petabyte level
• Passionate about technologies, and openness to interdisciplinary work

Nice-to-haves

• Demonstrated ability with cloud infrastructure technologies, including Terraform, K8S, Spinnaker, etc.
• Experience with Grafana, Datadog
• Experience in widely used Web framework (React.js, Vue.js, Angular, etc.) and good knowledge of Web stack HTML, CSS, Webpack
• Ads domain knowledge

Benefits

• Medical, financial, and/or other benefits
• Bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package