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Senior Software Engineer, Ad Platforms
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ESPN Technology is at the heart of Disneys 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 Disneys media business globally.
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 and Innovators. Creators and Builders. Entertainers and Engineers. We work with every part of The Walt Disney Companys media portfolio to advance the technological foundation and consumer media touch points serving millions of people around the world.
Here are a few reasons why we think youd love working here:
Building the future of Disneys 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: More than ever, Disneys technology and products serve as a signature doorway for fans' connections with the companys brands and stories. Disney+. Hulu. ESPN. ABC. ABC Newsand many more. These products and brands and the unmatched stories, storytellers, and events they carry matter to millions of people 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 Disneys industry-leading ad technology and products driving advertising performance, innovation, and value in Disneys sports, news, and entertainment content, across all media platforms.
The Forecasting team is under Ad Platforms, and its mission is to support Ads Inventory Forecasting business requirements. The Inventory Forecasting Platform provides unified inventory forecasting modelling and result accessing. This is a strong cross-domain team to deliver E2E solutions covering tech areas ranging from machine learning, big data, microservices to data visualization.
The right person for this role should have extensive experience on big data as well as solid expertise on backend services or full stack. If you are someone who is proactive, hardworking, and enthusiastic in these domains, this is a phenomenal role for you!
What Youll Do
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
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelors 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
Preferred Qualifications
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
#DISNEYTECH
The hiring range for this position in Glendale, California is $138,900 to $186,200 per year, in Seattle, Washington is $145,400 to $195,000 per year, and in San Francisco, California is $152,100 to $203,900 per year The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidates 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.
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Senior Software Engineer, Ad Platforms
role at
ESPN Join to apply for the
Senior Software Engineer, Ad Platforms
role at
ESPN Technology is at the heart of Disneys 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 Disneys media business globally.
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 and Innovators. Creators and Builders. Entertainers and Engineers. We work with every part of The Walt Disney Companys media portfolio to advance the technological foundation and consumer media touch points serving millions of people around the world.
Here are a few reasons why we think youd love working here:
Building the future of Disneys 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: More than ever, Disneys technology and products serve as a signature doorway for fans' connections with the companys brands and stories. Disney+. Hulu. ESPN. ABC. ABC Newsand many more. These products and brands and the unmatched stories, storytellers, and events they carry matter to millions of people 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 Disneys industry-leading ad technology and products driving advertising performance, innovation, and value in Disneys sports, news, and entertainment content, across all media platforms.
The Forecasting team is under Ad Platforms, and its mission is to support Ads Inventory Forecasting business requirements. The Inventory Forecasting Platform provides unified inventory forecasting modelling and result accessing. This is a strong cross-domain team to deliver E2E solutions covering tech areas ranging from machine learning, big data, microservices to data visualization.
The right person for this role should have extensive experience on big data as well as solid expertise on backend services or full stack. If you are someone who is proactive, hardworking, and enthusiastic in these domains, this is a phenomenal role for you!
What Youll Do
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
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelors 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
Preferred Qualifications
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
#DISNEYTECH
The hiring range for this position in Glendale, California is $138,900 to $186,200 per year, in Seattle, Washington is $145,400 to $195,000 per year, and in San Francisco, California is $152,100 to $203,900 per year The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidates 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.
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