About the position
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. 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 Company’s media portfolio to advance the technological foundation and consumer media touch points serving millions of people around the world. The Ad Serving Engineering organization within Disney Entertainment and the 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 across all of Disney online properties, including Hulu, Disney+, and ESPN+. As a Lead Software Engineer (non-manager), you will apply your deep technical knowledge and skills to help us deliver scalable, performant, maintainable, loosely coupled, encapsulated, and testable software.
Responsibilities
- Holistic understanding of the team’s domain and serving as a point of contact for stakeholders.
- Leading by example, supporting their peers, and striving to improve code and design towards more scalable, clean, and decoupled implementations.
- Facilitate discussions and drive resolution, making sure outcomes are clear and well-communicated.
- Designing, implementing, and testing solutions to various engineering problems in a high-throughput, low-latency microservices environment.
- Understanding and use of automated tools (AI) while adhering to company policy.
- Reading and understanding product user stories, translating them into actionable tasks, and leading the team through their execution.
- Enhancing systems’ observability with proper metrics, monitors, and alerts.
- Available for On-Call rotations based on the team’s escalation policy and support schedule.
Requirements
- BS or MS in Computer Science / Engineering or relevant work experience.
- 7+ years of software engineering experience.
- Advanced proficiency with Java, including understanding memory management, multi-threading, profiling, thread pools, connection pools, and HTTP protocols.
- Demonstrable analytical / problem-solving skills.
- Great communication, collaboration skills, and a strong teamwork ethic with both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Experience with SpringBoot and related Spring projects.
- Experience with non-relational database technologies like DynamoDB.
- Experience with caching datastores such as Redis, ValKey, or MemCache.
- Experience with data streaming mechanisms such as Apache Kafka and/or Kinesis.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS.
- Experience with modern DevOps tools such as Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes.
- Experience with microservice architecture.
Nice-to-haves
- Domain knowledge in the Ad Tech industry.
Benefits
- A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package.
- Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.
