Lead Software Engineer

Job Description

Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology
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 Disney's 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 maximize 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 for Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology
• Building the future of Disney's media business: DE&E Technologists are designing and building the infrastructure that will power Disney's 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 execute groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms and enhance how audiences experience sports, entertainment & news.

About the Role & Team

The Data Platforms Team, a segment under the Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology (DEET) organization is looking for a Lead Software Engineer to join our Product Performance & Instrumentation Data Team. Product Performance Data is critical to making product level decisions for the DEET Portfolio whether it's related to product design, measuring advertising effectiveness, helping users discover new content or building new businesses in emerging markets. This data is deeply valuable and gives us insights into how we can continue improving our service for our users, advertisers and our content partners. Our Product Performance & Instrumentation team is seeking a highly motivated Lead Software Engineer with a strong technical background who is passionate about designing and building systems to process data at scale to provide business value, create models and features that unlock powerful insights, and work across software and data disciplines to solve difficult unique problems at scale. Our tech stack includes AWS, Databricks, Airflow, Spark, Databricks and languages include Scala and Python.

What You Will Do
• Own the design and growth of software programs for our data products and data pipelines in Scala and Python / Spark while maintaining uptime SLAs
• Design and develop scalable solutions, building ETL pipelines in Big Data environments (cloud, on-prem, hybrid)
• Write and review code to establish and enhance frameworks and design proof of concepts
• Our tech stack includes AWS, Snowflake, Spark, Databricks, Delta Lake, Airflow and languages include Python, Scala
• Participate in driving the architectural direction for software development projects by collaborating with Product Managers and other software and data engineers to design, implement, and deliver successful solutions
• Maintain detailed documentation of your work and changes to support data quality and data governance
• Ensure high operational efficiency and quality of your solutions to meet SLAs and support commitment to our customers (Data Science, Data Analytics teams)
• Be an active participant and advocate of agile/scrum practice to ensure health and process improvements for your team
• Be a problem solver; when presented with new challenges, you are expected to research and network to find solutions
• Seek out answers to business problems and look for opportunities to automate processes & optimize Cost
• Engage with and understand our customers, forming relationships that allow us to understand and prioritize both innovative new offerings and incremental platform improvements
• Serve as an advanced resource for other software engineers on the team; receive, interpret and transmit complex information to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Influence project direction and impact day-to-day assignments of other engineers; may provide direction to other junior engineers

Required Qualifications & Skills
• At least 7 years of data engineering experience developing large data pipelines
• Strong algorithmic problem-solving expertise
• Strong SQL skills and ability to create queries to extract data and build performant datasets
• Strong fundamental Scala and Python programming skills
• Strong hands-on Experience with Cloud technologies like AWS (S3, EMR, EC2)
• Solid experience with data orchestration toolsets (i.e Airflow) and writing and maintaining Data Pipelines with Databricks
• Experience in Data Modeling techniques and Data Warehousing standard methodologies and practices
• Familiar with Scrum and Agile methodologies
• Demonstrated excellent interpersonal and communication skills, including ability to partner with others and build consensus in a cross-functional team toward a desired outcome

Preferred Qualifications
• Experience with MPP or cloud database technology (Snowflake, Redshift, Big Query)
• Hands-on experience with distributed systems such as Spark, Hadoop (HDFS, Hive, Presto, PySpark) to query and process data

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

Additional Information

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The hiring range for this position in Santa Monica, CA is $149,300.00 to $200,200.00 per year, , in Seattle, WA is $156,300.00 to $209,600.00 per year, and in New York, NY is $156,300.00 to $209,600.00 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.

About Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology:

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Technology (DE&E Technology) provides the technological backbone and product development for Disney's two media business units, while helping to keep the company at the vanguard of innovation – enabling the Company to continuously leverage technology to enhance storytelling and creativity, while delivering scalability, flexibility, and efficiency for its businesses.

This position is with Hulu, LLC, which is part of a business we call Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rj0jzw-18-222-67-251-42 in your application.