Job Summary:
The ad platform engineering organization within the Disney Entertainment/ESPN Product & Technology organization is fully responsible for building, enhancing, and maintaining the high-performance, distributed, microservice-based, cutting-edge digital advertising platform.
The platform enables the configuration, qualification, delivery, and tracking of digital advertisements globally across Disney video-on-demand and Live TV properties, including Hulu, Disney+, ESPN, and more.
As part of ad platform engineering, the programmatic teams build and maintain Disney’s programmatic advertising suite of products and services that comprise Disney's Real-time Ad Exchange (DRAX).
DRAX is an award-winning, in-house SSP that enables the configuration of programmatic deals and integrates programmatic demand from multiple third-party sources into the Disney ad server in real time.
As a Full-Stack Senior Software Engineer, you will collaborate with cross-functional partners and engineering teams on the design and implementation of innovative products and features, contributing to the evolution of user-centric advertising at scale.
On a daily basis you should bring:
A willingness and desire to effectively communicate and collaborate across teams and systems
An understanding of the importance of project ownership
A passion for mentoring, learning, and adapting to a very dynamic and fast-paced environment
An understanding of micro-service encapsulation and loose coupling, and why they are important
An understanding of how to define technical and operational metrics to measure system health and to manage risk
Kindness and pragmatic optimism
Responsibilities:
Designing, implementing, and testing solutions to various engineering problems in a high-throughput, low-latency microservices environment
Enhancing systems’ observability with proper metrics, monitors, and alerts
Reading and understanding product user stories, and then translating them into actionable tasks
Taking ownership of one or more of the team's domain areas
Understanding and using automated tools (AI) while adhering to company policy
Available for On-Call rotations based on the team’s escalation policy and support schedule
Basic Qualifications:
5+ years of software engineering experience.
Proficiency with Java and ORMs
Experience with ReactJS or similar frontend frameworks, with the ability to quickly pick up new technologies.
Relational databases, such as MySQL or Postgres
Demonstrable analytical / problem-solving skills.
Great communication, collaboration skills, and a strong teamwork ethic with both technical and non-technical audiences.
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience with:
SpringBoot and related Spring projects.
Cloud platforms such as AWS.
Modern DevOps tools such as Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes.
Data Streaming Mechanisms such as Apache Kafka, Kinesis, and/or SNS/SQS.
Domain knowledge in the Ad Tech industry
Required Education:
BS or MS in Computer Science / Engineering orrelevant work experience
Additional Information
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