COMPLETE Lead Software Engineer - Santa Monica, CA, USA

Job Posting Title:

Lead Software Engineer

Req ID:

10063415

Job Description:

Ad Serving Engineering organization within Disney Entertainment and ESPN Technology 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

Key Responsibilities

• Big Data (Hadoop/Hive/S3/Snowflake/Redshift) environment experience.
• Solid communication, collaboration, and presentation skills with technical staff as well as executive leadership – working towards building consensus.
• Experience in building out common architectural diagrams and artifacts: Reference architecture, data flow diagrams, system diagrams, logical/physical data models…
• An understanding of distributed systems design.
• A passion for building the next generation of distributed systems in a multi-region ecosystem.
• Ability to work well with a fast-moving, positive, and hard-working team to develop innovative solutions at amazing scale.
• Broad understanding of programming languages with strong experience with one of the following: Python, Java, Scala
• AWS development, automation, and design experience.
• Software architect with experience working on mid to large size modular software projects.
• Financial/Accounting/Business-KPI application development and design experience.
• Experience with service-oriented architecture and design principles.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience
• 7+ years of related work 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 or relevant work experience
• 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

The hiring range for this position in California is $149,240 to $200,200 per year and in Seattle is $156,292 - $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:

Consumer Experiences & 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 - WA - 925 4th Ave

Date Posted:

2023-10-09