COMPLETE Lead Software Engineer - Santa Monica, CA, USA

Job Posting Title:

Lead Software Engineer

Req ID:

10065172

Job Description:

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.

As a member of our team, you will apply your knowledge and skills to help us deliver scalable, performant, maintainable, and testable software.

On a daily basis you should bring:

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

• Demonstrated ownership for the projects delivered by your team and department

• Knowledge of system design and implementation best practices to guide and mentor

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

• A proven ability to work with product teams to translate requirements into well defined technical implementations, as well as the ability to define technical and operational metrics to measure system health

• A keen eye for potential optimizations and enhancements to our services

• Kindness and pragmatic optimism.

• Your unique view and experience

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 / Engineering or relevant work experience

• 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 / Engineering

Comprehensive experience with:

• 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

Additional Information:

Working hours would need to closely overlap with PST. Employees also need to be located near a work hub.

The hiring range for this position in California is $149,240 to $2192,230 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.

Job Posting Segment:

Technology (DTC)

Job Posting Primary Business:

Advertising Platforms (DTC)

Primary Job Posting Category:

Software Engineer

Employment Type:

Full time

Primary City, State, Region, Postal Code:

Santa Monica, CA, USA

Alternate City, State, Region, Postal Code:

USA - CA - 1200 Grand Central Ave, USA - CA - Market St, USA - WA - 925 4th Ave

Date Posted:

2023-10-09