Software Engineer - Activation

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology

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. These products and brands – and the unmatched stories, storytellers, and events they carry – matter to millions of people globally. 

• Innovation: We develop and implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms, and solve complex and distinctive technical problems.

Commerce, Data & Identity provides the core product management functions for areas crucial to Disney’s media businesses. These include initiatives and products that power digital commerce, identity, and growth, as well as those that reach uniquely across The Walt Disney Company enterprise, such as messaging and privacy, among others. Additionally, it is responsible for the data engineering, science, and products for Disney Entertainment & ESPN, along with their interconnection with other parts of The Walt Disney Company.

About The Role

Our Activation team is seeking a highly motivated Software Engineer with a strong technical background who is passionate about building systems to process data at scale that unlocks capabilities across software and data disciplines. This role involves building and maintaining our Activation Data products which serve as the data sharing platform. The role requires knowledge of building scalable, fault-tolerant data products to ensure the reliable delivery of both real-time and batch data. Our tech stack includes AWS, Databricks, Snowflake, Airflow, Spark, and languages include Scala, Python, SQL, and Java.

Responsibilities

• Be a part of a team of big data and backend engineers to deliver high value projects

• 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

• Participate in building next generation service platform on cloud-based big data infrastructure for batch and streaming data applications, and continuously improve performance, scalability and availability

• Participate in sprint planning, backlog refinement, and retrospectives as a team.

• Build automated tests to ensure application reliability.

• Participate in code reviews.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience

• Minimum of 3 years of related software development experience

• Minimum 3 years’ experience with Python, Scala, or Java.

• Familiarity with Spark

• Familiar with complex SQL development related to extract, transform, and load processes.

• Familiar with testing tools, such as pytest, junit, or equivalent. 

• Understanding of source control systems such as git.

• Understanding of CI/CD concepts

• Knowledge of AWS technologies and cloud infrastructure.

• Aptitude for learning new skills and technologies.

• Familiar with QA or QE is a plus

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with real-time event-driven architectures

• Experience with AWS 

Additional Information

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The hiring range for this position in Seattle, WA is between $120,300 - $161,300, New York, NY is between $120,300 - $161,300, Los Angeles, CA is between $114,900 - $154,100 and San Francisco, CA is between $125,800 - $168,700 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.