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Senior Software Engineer - Activation Team
Job ID 10119441Job Summary:
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.
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.
Here are a few reasons why we think you’d 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: More than ever, Disney’s technology and products serve as a signature doorway for fans' connections with the company’s brands and stories. Disney+. Hulu. ESPN. ABC. ABC News…and many more.
Innovation: We develop and implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms and solve complex and distinctive technical problems.
Commerce, Data & Identity provides the core product management functions for areas crucial to Disney’s media businesses. These include initiatives and products that power digital commerce, identity, and growth, as well as those that reach uniquely across The Walt Disney Company enterprise, such as messaging and privacy, among others. Additionally, it is responsible for the data engineering, science, and products for Disney Entertainment & ESPN, along with their interconnection with other parts of The Walt Disney Company.
Our Activation team is seeking a highly motivated Senior Software Engineer with a strong technical background who is passionate about building systems to process data at scale that unlocks capabilities across software and data disciplines. This role involves building and maintaining our Activation Data products which serve as the data sharing platform. The role requires expert knowledge of building scalable, fault-tolerant data products to ensure the reliable delivery of both real-time and batch data. Our tech stack includes AWS, Databricks, Snowflake, Airflow, Spark, and languages include Scala, Python, SQL, and Java.
Responsibilities
Be a part of a team of big data and backend engineers to deliver high value projects.
Participate in organization-wide large-scale programs representing the team and our stakeholders.
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.
Participate in building next generation service platform on cloud-based big data infrastructure for batch and streaming data applications, and continuously improve performance, scalability and availability.
Participate in code reviews and evangelize best practices.
Advocate the best engineering practices, including the use of design patterns, CI/CD, code review and automated testing.
Mentor and guide the professional and technical development of junior team members.
Collaborate with program managers, product managers, SDET, and researchers in an open and innovative environment.
Basic Qualifications
Minimum of 5 years of related software development experience.
Minimum 5 years’ experience with Python, Scala, or Java.
Minimum 2 years’ experience with Spark.
Strong experience with complex SQL development related to extract, transform, and load processes.
Familiar with Docker and/or containerization technologies.
Familiar with Airflow or equivalent schedulers.
Strong software design principles.
Experience mentoring and leading junior engineers.
Experience collaborating with product managers and program managers across the organization.
Experience with testing tools, such as pytest, junit, or equivalent.
Experience with QA or QE is a plus.
Required Education
Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience.
Additional Information
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About Disney Entertainment:
At Disney Corporate you can see how the businesses behind the Company’s powerful brands come together to create the most innovative, far-reaching and admired entertainment company in the world. As a member of a corporate team, you’ll work with world-class leaders driving the strategies that keep The Walt Disney Company at the leading edge of entertainment.
About The Walt Disney Company:
The Walt Disney Company, together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading diversified international family entertainment and media enterprise that includes three core business segments: Disney Entertainment, ESPN, and Disney Experiences.
This position is with Disney Streaming Services LLC, which is part of a business we call Disney Entertainment.
Disney Streaming Services LLC is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, military or veteran status, medical condition, genetic information or disability, or any other basis prohibited by federal, state or local law.
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