Business 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!

　　Position Summary:

　　Our combined Disney and Hulu team is looking for hardworking team players to join the Ad Financials team, who will thrive upon the legacy of Disney and Hulu, embrace unconventional thinking, and who are passionate about contributing to The Walt Disney Company’s direct-to-consumer (DTC) experience through strategic hard work and determination.

　　We are looking for a Lead 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 Lead 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

　　Solve complex data issues and perform root cause analysis to proactively resolve product and operational issues.

　　Drive initial review of Epic level product requirements to derive solutions that can be broken down into a technical story backlog that allows for parallel development. The candidate will be responsible for building the low level story backlog that the team will size and deliver as it relates to the epic.

　　Document design and implementation through ERDs, Data Dictionaries, Sequence Diagrams or whatever is appropriate to the task in a way that communicates to team members and external stakeholders how large initiatives are being delivered.

　　Minimum Qualifications:

　　BS in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent industry experience

　　7 years of work experience in software development

　　2 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 :

　　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 $149,240 - $200,200 per year and in Washington is $156,292 to $209,660 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.

　　Job ID: 10075494

　　Location: Santa Monica,California

　　Job Posting Company: Disney Direct to Consumer

　　The Walt Disney Company and its Affiliated Companies are Equal Employment Opportunity employers and welcome all job seekers including individuals with disabilities and veterans with disabilities. If you have a disability and believe you need a reasonable accommodation in order to search for a job opening or apply for a position, email [email protected] with your request. This email address is not for general employment inquiries or correspondence. We will only respond to those requests that are related to the accessibility of the online application system due to a disability.