Lead Software Engineer - Ad Platforms
Postuler maintenant Postuler ultérieurement Job ID 10115692 Emplacement Seattle, Washington, États-Unis / Santa Monica, Californie, États-Unis / Glendale, Californie, États-Unis Entreprise Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology Date de publication 16/07/2025Résumé du poste:
Disney Entertainment & ESPN Product & Technology
On any given day at Disney Entertainment & ESPN Product & Technology (DEEP&T), we’re reimagining ways to create magical viewing experiences for the world’s most beloved stories while also transforming Disney’s media business for the future. Whether that’s evolving our streaming and digital products in new and immersive ways, powering worldwide advertising and distribution to maximize flexibility and efficiency, or delivering Disney’s unmatched entertainment and sports content, every day is a moment to make a difference to partners and to hundreds of millions of people around the world.
A few reasons why we think you’d love working for Disney Entertainment & ESPN Product & Technology
Building the future of Disney’s media business: DE&E Technologists are designing and building the infrastructure that will power Disney’s media, advertising, and distribution businesses for years to come.
Reach & Scale: The products and platforms this group builds and operates delight millions of consumers every minute of every day – from Disney+ and Hulu, to ABC News and Entertainment, to ESPN and ESPN+, and much more.
Innovation: We develop and execute groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms and enhance how audiences experience sports, entertainment & news.
Job Summary
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.
The Ad Experience team is responsible for all advanced ad formats served on Hulu and Disney+. We strive to deliver a seamless and engaging viewing experience for our audience—while offering advertisers a suite of innovative, industry-leading ad solutions.
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.
You should bring:
- A willingness and desire to effectively communicate and collaborate across teams and systems.
- Demonstrated project ownership.
- System and API design, and implementation best practices to guide and mentor, for example, micro-service encapsulation and loose coupling.
- A passion for mentoring, learning, and adapting to a very dynamic and fast-paced environment.
- 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:
- 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, documenting 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.
Basic Qualifications:
- BS or MS in Computer Science / Engineering or relevant work experience.
- 7+ 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 / 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
- Non-relational database technologies like DynamoDB
- Caching datastores such as Redis, ValKey, or MemCache
- Data Streaming Mechanisms such as Apache Kafka and/or Kinesis
- Cloud platforms such as AWS
- Modern DevOps tools such as Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes
- Microservice architecture
Preferred Qualifications:
- Domain knowledge in the Ad Tech industry.
Additional Information:
- Engineers are expected to be in the office four days a week.
- The specific location depends on the team’s location and the hiring manager’s input.
#DISNEYTECH
The hiring range for this position in Los Angeles, CA is $152,000 - $204,100 per year, in Seattle, WA is $159,500-$213,900, and in San Francisco, CA is $166,800-$223,600. 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:
DISNEYTECHSur 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.