Staff Software Engineer

December 27, 2024

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

Although this job is listed in California, this company may be open to hiring remote in other states.

💵 $152.2k - $204.1k / year

⏰ Full Time

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The Walt Disney Company

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Entertainment • Technology • Media • Movies • Television

10,000+ employees

Founded 1923

📱 Media

💰 Post-IPO Debt on 2020-04

Description

• Design and build tools that support the existing ad technology teams at The Walt Disney Studios—collectively known as "the performance marketing engine"; • Drive software engineering and architectural best practices and standards within the team, along with a culture of engineering excellence; • Provide mentorship and guidance for team members; evangelize the new tools, best-practices, and data driven decisions • Develop and enhance existing capabilities of the Performance Marketing Engine • Create tooling and applications that can dynamically manage ad strategy configurations in a variety of social and digital platforms • Collaborate with data scientists and product managers to rapidly iterate from prototypes to high-quality, production pipelines; • Implement quality controls, monitoring, and other safeguards to ensure optimizations are accurately and safely applied to in-flight ad campaigns; • Adapt applications and workflows in the Performance Marketing Engine to changes arising from industry-wide events. • Collaborate with Studio Technology team to ensure data fidelity and reenforce larger data initiatives at The Walt Disney Studios • Lead efforts to design and create new and innovative enhancements to the Performance Marketing Engine to improve capabilities in: • Categorizing and taxonomizing paid media efforts • Implement paid media strategies at scale across multiple digital media channels • Simplify media operations and improving operational efficiency

Requirements

• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience • 7 years or more of related work experience • Shown experience developing well-documented applications and API-based services, using frameworks such as FastAPI (Python) or Sprint Boot (Java) • Experience with data-rich environments and a fluency with Python, Spark, and SQL • Ability to craft and own CI/CD pipelines for applications, using infrastructure-as-code frameworks such as Terraform or CloudFormation • Experience partnering with data science teams to bring pipelines and libraries into robust, production environments • Ability to dive deep into any technical component as well as understand and drive the overall systems architecture. • Proven ability to manage multiple projects effectively that meet deadlines within a fast-paced environment • Understanding of media and marketing, including how to define marketing/ media KPIs

Benefits

• 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.