Location
Santa Monica, CA | United States
Job description
Job Summary:
On any given day at Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology, we’re reimagining ways to create magical viewing experiences for the world’s most beloved stories while also transforming our 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 enhance 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 here:
- Building the future of Disney’s media: DE&E Technologists are designing and building the infrastructure that will power our 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 implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms and enhance how audiences experience sports, entertainment & news.
The Ads & Data Platform team is responsible for building and delivering the technology that supports Disney’s industry-leading, multi-billion dollar advertising business. Working across all of Disney’s streaming and linear channels, this team’s scope is multifaceted – they impact everything from core infrastructure development to the viewer-first ad formats subscribers see on their screens. Award-winning technologies, like the proprietary Disney Ad Server or DRAX, Disney’s programmatic advertising solution, are the backbone of Disney’s ad business and a key driver of Disney’s future success. What sets Disney’s advertising business apart, and what makes working here such a cool opportunity, is a combination of: world-class advertising technology built in-house, and the most beloved brands, franchises, and content!
Job Summary:
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer with experience in building data pipeline solutions integrating components built on top of an AWS technology stack. If you have experience building financial applications, take ownership in the technical direction of your team’s product we’d like to talk with you.
The Senior Software Engineer will be responsible for building data pipelines for an internal financial system that processes all ad Revenue for Disney and Hulu. This role will be working closely with different engineering teams and product managers to meet data requirements of various initiatives in Ad Engineering.
What you will do:
- Think and communicate critically about architecture, design, and best practices and collaborate with your team to adopting them.
- Design data systems that allow managed growth of the data model to minimize risk and cost of change.
- Write transformation and validation code that applies complex data aggregation and calculation using with a variety of technologies/languages like Pyspark, SQL and Python
- Drive implementation of automated testing for data pipelines within a CI environment
- Create new pipelines or rewrite existing pipelines and build reusable components at scale to support accounting functions, as well as reporting & analytics.
- Collaborate with other Disney and Hulu teams to identify and document shifting data requirements while also advocating for a minimal change set for your team.
- Solve complex data issues and perform root cause analysis to proactively resolve product and operational issues.
- Collaborate with leadership and other engineers to develop technical story backlog derived from high level business requirements and design collaboration and estimating story points.
What you will need:
- BS in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent industry experience
- 5+ years of professional experience engineering complex, high-volume data pipelines using SQL, Python, and AirflowS
- 5+ years of experience building cloud scalable and high-performance data lake / data warehouse solutions using AWS products - S3, Athena, Glue, and EMR
- Experience with binary data serialization formats such as Parquet
- Deep understanding of data structures and algorithms
- Understanding of code versioning tools such as GIT
- Have a passion for data solutions
Nice to Have:
- MS in Computer Science, a related field
- Exposure to AWS cloud data pipeline tools such as Managed Airflow and Glue
- Experience integrating with Ad Tech platforms such as Operative and STAQ
- Exposure and opinions regarding alternate orchestration tooling beyond Airflow
- Understanding of SOX compliance needs and how they affect system design.
- Have worked with a variety of Airflow Operator types, including REST, Lambda, ECS
Technical Environment
- Aurora/Hive (databases)
- Spark (large-scale data processing)
- Airflow (workflow management)
- Docker (software packaging and delivery)
- AWS (development and hosting)
The hiring range for this position in California is $136,038 to $199,870 per year and in Seattle, Washington is $142,516 to $191,180 per year. 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.
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