The Walt Disney Company (Germany) GmbH
Senior Software Engineer
The Walt Disney Company (Germany) GmbH, Seattle, Washington, us, 98127
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.
Technology is at the heart of Disney’s past, present, and future. 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, innovators, creators, 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.
Why You’ll 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: Disney+, Hulu, ESPN, ABC, ABC News, and many more bring our technology and products as a signature doorway for fans’ connections with the company’s brands and stories. These products and brands – and the unmatched stories, storytellers, and events they carry – matter to millions globally.
Innovation: We develop and implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms and solve complex and distinctive technical problems.
Ad Platforms is responsible for Disney’s industry‑leading ad technology and products – driving advertising performance, innovation, and value in Disney’s sports, news, and entertainment content, across all media platforms.
The Ads Data team, part of Ad Platforms, transforms Disney’s Ad platform with data and AI across TV and streaming video. We build solutions to measure and optimize every aspect of the advertising life cycle. Our team is a cross‑domain group that delivers end‑to‑end solutions covering machine learning, big data, microservices, and data visualization. We’re looking for a senior software engineer to core team of our advertising data platform engineering group. This group focuses on big data infrastructure, operational data, audience solution, inventory forecasting, and full‑funnel measurements as a foundation layer for Disney’s addressable Ad Platforms.
Responsibilities and Duties of the Role: WHAT YOU’LL DO
Build components of large‑scale data platform for real‑time and batch 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.
Contribute to best engineering practices, including the use of design patterns, CI/CD, code review and automated tests.
Contribute to ground‑breaking innovation and apply state‑of‑the‑art technologies.
As a key member of the team, contribute to all aspects of the software lifecycle: design, experimentation, implementation and testing.
Collaborate with program managers, product managers, SDET, and researchers in an open and innovative environment.
Own end‑to‑end delivery of substantial features or subsystems.
Promote a positive, inclusive, and collaborative engineering culture.
Identify and resolve root causes of complex production issues.
Provide constructive feedback and mentorship to junior engineers.
Required Education, Experience/Skills/Training: WHAT TO BRING
Bachelor or above in Computer Science or EE.
5+ years of professional programming in Scala, Python, and etc.
3+ years of big data development experience with technical stacks like Spark, Flink, Airflow, Singlestore, Kafka and AWS big data technologies.
Deep understanding of data modeling, distributed systems, and performance optimization.
Knowledge of system, application design and architecture.
Experience building industry‑level highly available and scalable service.
Passion about technologies, and openness to interdisciplinary work.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
NICE-TO-HAVES
Hands‑on experience with Databricks for development and deployment of data pipelines.
Experience with data governance, compliance, or observability tooling.
Demonstrated ability with cloud infrastructure technologies, including Terraform, K8S, Spinnaker, IAM, ALB, and etc.
Experience with Snowflake, Kinesis, lambda etc.
Experience in MicroService framework like Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, FastAPI, NestJS etc.
The hiring range for this position in Glendale, CA is $138,900 - $186,200 per year, in Seattle, CA is $145,400 - $195,000 per year and in San Francisco, CA is $152,100 - $203,900 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and 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.
About Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology 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.
Disability Accommodation for Employment Applications The Walt Disney Company and its Affiliated Companies are Equal Employment Opportunity employers and welcome all job seekers including individuals with disabilities and veterans with disabilities. If you have a disability and believe you need a reasonable accommodation in order to search for a job opening or apply for a position, visit the Disney candidate disability accommodations FAQs. We will only respond to those requests that are related to the accessibility of the online application system due to a disability.
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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.
Technology is at the heart of Disney’s past, present, and future. 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, innovators, creators, 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.
Why You’ll 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: Disney+, Hulu, ESPN, ABC, ABC News, and many more bring our technology and products as a signature doorway for fans’ connections with the company’s brands and stories. These products and brands – and the unmatched stories, storytellers, and events they carry – matter to millions globally.
Innovation: We develop and implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms and solve complex and distinctive technical problems.
Ad Platforms is responsible for Disney’s industry‑leading ad technology and products – driving advertising performance, innovation, and value in Disney’s sports, news, and entertainment content, across all media platforms.
The Ads Data team, part of Ad Platforms, transforms Disney’s Ad platform with data and AI across TV and streaming video. We build solutions to measure and optimize every aspect of the advertising life cycle. Our team is a cross‑domain group that delivers end‑to‑end solutions covering machine learning, big data, microservices, and data visualization. We’re looking for a senior software engineer to core team of our advertising data platform engineering group. This group focuses on big data infrastructure, operational data, audience solution, inventory forecasting, and full‑funnel measurements as a foundation layer for Disney’s addressable Ad Platforms.
Responsibilities and Duties of the Role: WHAT YOU’LL DO
Build components of large‑scale data platform for real‑time and batch 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.
Contribute to best engineering practices, including the use of design patterns, CI/CD, code review and automated tests.
Contribute to ground‑breaking innovation and apply state‑of‑the‑art technologies.
As a key member of the team, contribute to all aspects of the software lifecycle: design, experimentation, implementation and testing.
Collaborate with program managers, product managers, SDET, and researchers in an open and innovative environment.
Own end‑to‑end delivery of substantial features or subsystems.
Promote a positive, inclusive, and collaborative engineering culture.
Identify and resolve root causes of complex production issues.
Provide constructive feedback and mentorship to junior engineers.
Required Education, Experience/Skills/Training: WHAT TO BRING
Bachelor or above in Computer Science or EE.
5+ years of professional programming in Scala, Python, and etc.
3+ years of big data development experience with technical stacks like Spark, Flink, Airflow, Singlestore, Kafka and AWS big data technologies.
Deep understanding of data modeling, distributed systems, and performance optimization.
Knowledge of system, application design and architecture.
Experience building industry‑level highly available and scalable service.
Passion about technologies, and openness to interdisciplinary work.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
NICE-TO-HAVES
Hands‑on experience with Databricks for development and deployment of data pipelines.
Experience with data governance, compliance, or observability tooling.
Demonstrated ability with cloud infrastructure technologies, including Terraform, K8S, Spinnaker, IAM, ALB, and etc.
Experience with Snowflake, Kinesis, lambda etc.
Experience in MicroService framework like Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, FastAPI, NestJS etc.
The hiring range for this position in Glendale, CA is $138,900 - $186,200 per year, in Seattle, CA is $145,400 - $195,000 per year and in San Francisco, CA is $152,100 - $203,900 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and 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.
About Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology 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.
Disability Accommodation for Employment Applications The Walt Disney Company and its Affiliated Companies are Equal Employment Opportunity employers and welcome all job seekers including individuals with disabilities and veterans with disabilities. If you have a disability and believe you need a reasonable accommodation in order to search for a job opening or apply for a position, visit the Disney candidate disability accommodations FAQs. We will only respond to those requests that are related to the accessibility of the online application system due to a disability.
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