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Manager, Software Engineering - Ad Server

Postuler maintenant Postuler ultérieurement Job ID 10124453 Emplacement Glendale, Californie, États-Unis / Santa Monica, Californie, États-Unis / San Francisco, Californie, États-Unis Entreprise Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology Date de publication 09/07/2025

Résumé du poste:

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.

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. 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 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 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 (Video on Demand, Live TV, and innovative interactive ads) across all of Disney online properties, including Hulu, Disney+, 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 entitlements, correct pacing, targeting, selection of ads, and third-party systems.

As part of the Decisioning Fleet, you will get to own the services that decide what ad will fill the slot for ad breaks across Hulu, Disney+, ESPN, and others. You will directly contribute to optimizing ad qualification and selection to make sure viewers always see the right ad at the right time.

As Manager of Software Engineering, you will apply your deep technical knowledge and skills to help us deliver scalable, performant, maintainable, loosely coupled, encapsulated, and testable software.

Daily, you should bring:

  • A willingness and desire to effectively communicate and collaborate across teams and systems on architecture, design, and implementation.

  • Demonstrated project and team ownership.

  • System and API design expertise to guide team members in the the creation of loosely-coupled and properly encapsulated micro-services.

  • A passion for mentoring, learning, and taking on new challenges.

  • 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.

  • Kindness and pragmatic optimism.

  • A deep understanding of Java and the Software Development Lifecycle.

Responsibilities:

  • Guide your team's designs and implementations, ensuring best practices, architectural soundness, interoperability, API design, encapsulation, and coupling.

  • Lead by example and always strive to improve code and design for more scalable, cleaner, and decoupled implementations.

  • Understanding and usage of automated tools (AI) while adhering to company policy.

  • Translating product requirements into implementation tickets, leading execution.

  • Defining, reviewing, documenting, estimating LOE, and planning for high-throughput, low-latency microservices designs.

  • Enhancing system observability with proper metrics, monitors and alerts.

  • Conduct regular one-on-ones and yearly reviews with the team.

  • Gauging team size and capacity against roadmap items.

  • Drive the team’s recruitment.

  • Available for On-Call rotations based on the team’s escalation policy and support schedule.

Basic Qualifications:

  • BS or MS in Computer Science / Engineering or relevant work experience.

  • 8+ years of software engineering experience.

  • Advanced proficiency with Java, including but not limited to understanding memory management, multi-threading, profiling, thread pools, connection pools, and HTTP protocols.

  • Demonstrable analytical and problem-solving skills.

  • Excellent communication, collaboration skills, and a strong teamwork ethic with both technical and non-technical peers.

  • Demonstrated experience leading a software development team.

  • Experience with:

    • SpringBoot or similar web services frameworks.

    • Non-relational database technologies like DynamoDB.

    • Caching datastores such as Redis, ValKey, or MemCache.

    • Data Streaming Mechanisms such as Apache Kafka or Kinesis.

    • Cloud platforms such as AWS.

    • Modern DevOps tools such as Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes.

    • Microservice architectures.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Domain knowledge in the Ad Tech industry.

Additional Information:

This will be an on-site role (4 days/week)

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The hiring range for this position in Los Angeles, CA is between $167,700 – $224,900 year, San Francisco, CA is between $183,700 - $246,400 and Seattle, WA $175,800 - $235,700. 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.

Informations Supplémentaires:

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Sur Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology:

Chez Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology, nous allions imagination et innovation pour réinventer la manière dont les gens vivent et interagissent avec les histoires et les produits les plus appréciés au monde. Notre travail est extrêmement vaste et complexe. Nous créons des expériences incroyables, transformons l’avenir des médias et créons des produits et des plateformes qui rapprochent les gens du monde entier des histoires et des sports qu’ils aiment.

Chez Disney, notre capacité à associer une technologie de classe mondiale à une créativité sans pareille nous rend uniques. C’est l’essence même de notre passé, de notre présent et de notre avenir. Nous sommes des narrateurs et des innovateurs. Des créateurs et des bâtisseurs. Des artistes et des ingénieurs.

Sur The Walt Disney Company:

The Walt Disney Company, ainsi que ses filiales et sociétés affiliées, forme l’une des principales entreprises internationales diversifiées de divertissement familial et de médias. Elle comprend trois secteurs d'activités essentiels : Disney Entertainment, ESPN et Disney Experiences. Depuis ses modestes débuts en tant que studio de dessins animés dans les années 1920 jusqu’à son statut de référence actuel dans le secteur du divertissement, Disney poursuit fièrement sa tradition de création d’histoires et d’expériences exceptionnelles pour tous les membres de la famille. Les histoires, les personnages et les expériences de Disney touchent les consommateurs et les visiteurs du monde entier. À travers nos activités présentes dans plus de 40 pays, nos employés et cast members collaborent pour créer des expériences de divertissement appréciées à la fois au niveau universel et local.

Le poste est rattaché à Disney Streaming Technology LLC , qui fait partie d’une entreprise que nous appelons Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology.

Disney Streaming Technology LLC est un employeur qui souscrit au principe d’égalité des chances à l’emploi. Les candidat(e)s seront pris(es) en considération pour un emploi sans distinction de race, de religion, de couleur, de sexe, d’orientation sexuelle, de genre, d’identité de genre, d’expression de genre, d’origine nationale, d’ascendance, d’âge, d’état matrimonial, de statut militaire ou d’ancien combattant, d’état de santé, d’informations génétiques ou de handicap, ou de tout autre motif interdit par la loi fédérale, étatique ou locale. Disney défend un environnement commercial où les idées et décisions de tous et toutes nous aident à grandir, innover, créer les meilleures histoires et être pertinents dans un monde en évolution constante.

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