Manager, Software Engineering

Job Description

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:

Ad Serving Engineering organization within Disney Media and Entertainment Distribution organization is fully responsible for building, enhancing and maintaining the high-performance, distributed, microservice-based Digital Advertising Platform. The platform is charged with the qualification, delivery, and tracking of Digital Advertising campaigns (Video on Demand, Live TV, and innovative interactive ads) across all of Disney online properties, including Hulu and ESPN+.

In addition, Ad Serving teams collaborate in the development of supporting components, such as anti-ad fatigue systems, impression counting pipelines, and ad experience flows. We also work on integrations with critical services responsible for the correct pacing, targeting, and selection of ads.

As a member of our team, you will apply your knowledge and skills to help us deliver scalable, performant, maintainable, and testable software.
On a daily basis you should bring:
• A willingness and desire to effectively communicate and collaborate across teams and systems.
• Demonstrated ownership for the projects delivered by your team and department.
• Knowledge of system design and implementation best practices to guide and mentor.
• A passion for mentoring, learning, and adapting to a very dynamic and fast paced environment.
• A proven ability to work with product teams to translate requirements into well-defined technical implementations, as well as the ability to define technical and operational metrics to measure system health.
• A keen eye for potential optimizations and enhancements to our services
Kindness and pragmatic optimism.
• Your unique view and experience

Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:
• Reviewing a lot of code and tests.
• Available for a weekly-rotating On-Call support schedule.
• Reading requirements documentation from Product and translating into implementation tickets, and leading the team through execution.
• Defining, reviewing, documenting, and estimating LOE for software and system designs in a high throughput, low latency microservices environment.
• Defining and prioritizing sprintable work for your team, as well as working with other leads on cross-functional projects.
• Enhancing systems' observability with proper metrics, monitors and alerts.
• Weekly 1:1 meetings with team members to guide them through personal and career development.
• Annual reviews for direct reports.

Basic Qualifications:
• BS in Computer Science / Engineering or relevant work experience
• 8+ years of software engineering experience
• Advanced proficiency with Java, such as understanding heap, multi-threading, profiling
• Demonstrable analytical / problem solving skills
• Great communication, collaboration skills and a strong teamwork ethic with both technical and non-technical audiences
• Demonstrated experience leading a software development team

Preferred Qualifications:
• MS in Computer Science / Engineering

Experience with:
• SpringBoot and related Spring projects
• Non-relational database technologies e.g. DynamoDB, Redis and/or MemCache Apache Kafka and/or Kinesis
• AWS or other cloud platform, Terraform, Docker and Kubernetes
• Ad Tech industry

The hiring range for this position in California is $164,492 - $220,660 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.

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-reyjy7-18-188-80-46-42 in your application.