disney · 1 day ago
Staff Software Engineer
Burbank, CA
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$152K/yr - $204K/yr
7+ years exp
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Responsibilities
Design and build tools that support the existing ad technology teams at The Walt Disney Studios—collectively known as 'the performance marketing engine'; allow the teams to scale their work, increase the rate of delivery, and make space for future innovation
Drive software engineering and architectural best practices and standards within the team, along with a culture of engineering excellence; uphold standards and rigor around software development, testing, deployment, and documentation
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; contribute to emerging marketing analytics projects that address pressing business questions from collaborators in The Walt Disney Studios Marketing organization
Implement quality controls, monitoring, and other safeguards to ensure optimizations are accurately and safely applied to in-flight ad campaigns and key business metrics are always presented accurately
Adapt applications and workflows in the Performance Marketing Engine to changes arising from industry-wide events (such as the iOS14 update or cookie deprecation) as well as to more customary changes like standard updates to partner APIs.
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
Qualification
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Required
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
Preferred
Knowledge of ad platforms including DMPs, Google Ads, Facebook/Instagram, Twitter, Innovid, LiveRamp and DSPs (Google DV360, Trade Desk, Verizon Media Group)
Familiarity with front-end software development, including Javascript and frameworks like Angular or React
Knowledge of Databricks and AWS Cloud Services
Knowledge of digital ad serving, tracking and implementation
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
Company
disney
disney.com
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageCompany data provided by crunchbase
