Senior software engineer

$138,900 - $186,200/Yr

Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology - San Francisco, CA

Full-time - Mid Level

San Francisco, CA

About the position

The Senior Software Engineer position at Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology focuses on building and enhancing the advertising data platform. This role is integral to developing a high-performance, distributed, microservice-based Advertising Platform that supports Disney's online properties, including Hulu and ESPN+. The engineer will work on big data infrastructure, operational data, audience solutions, and inventory forecasting, contributing to the transformation of advertising through data and AI.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Build next-gen cloud based big data infrastructure for batch and streaming data applications, and continuously improve performance, scalability and availability.
• Contribute to the best engineering practices, including the use of design patterns, CI/CD, code review and automated test.
• Chip in ground-breaking innovation and apply the state-of-the-art technologies.
• Contribute to all aspects of the software lifecycle: design, experimentation, implementation and testing.
• Collaborate with program managers, product managers, SDET, and researchers in an open and innovative environment.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional programming in Java, Scala, Python, etc.
• 3+ years of big data development experience with technical stacks like Spark, Flink, Singlestore, Kafka, Nifi and AWS big data technologies.
• Knowledge of system, application design and architecture.
• Experience of building industry level high available and scalable service.
• Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering or comparable field of study.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with processing large amounts of data at petabyte level.
• Demonstrated ability with cloud infrastructure technologies, including Terraform, K8S, Spinnaker, IAM, ALB, etc.
• Experience with ClickHouse, Druid, Snowflake, Impala, Presto, Kinesis, etc.
• Experience in widely used Web frameworks (SpringBoot, React.js, Vue.js, Angular, etc.)

Benefits

• Medical benefits
• Financial benefits
• Bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package.