Senior Software Engineer, Ad Decisioning

Senior Software Engineer, Ad Decisioning

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.

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.

As part of the Decisioning Fleet, you will help build UI tools that analyze what ads are competing for slots 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 a P3 (Senior Software Engineer) of our team, you will apply your knowledge and skills to help us deliver scalable, performant, maintainable, and testable software.

Daily, 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.

• Designing, implementing, and testing full stack 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 for both frontend and backend components.
• 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.

• BS or MS in Computer Science / Engineering or relevant work experience.
• Experience with front‑end technologies and frameworks such as Node, React, NextJS, Express, Typescript, Tailwind.
• 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• Proficiency with Java.
• Demonstrable analytical / problem‑solving skills.
• Great communication, collaboration skills, and a strong teamwork ethic with both technical and non‑technical audiences.

• Spring Boot and related Spring projects.
• Non‑relational database technologies like Dynamo
  
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• Caching data stores such as Redis, Val Key or Mem Cache.
• Data Streaming Mechanisms such as Apache Kafka and/or Kinesis.
• Cloud platforms such as AWS.
• Modern Dev Ops tools such as Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes.
• Domain knowledge in the Ad Tech industry.

• Engineers are expected to be in the office four days a week.
• This role is hiring in San Francisco, Santa Monica,…