The Walt Disney Company · 4 hours ago
Lead Software Engineer, Ad Platforms
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$156K/yr - $209K/yr
7+ years expThe Walt Disney Company is a global leader in media and entertainment, seeking a Lead Software Engineer for its Ad Platforms team. This role involves building and enhancing large-scale data platforms, advocating best engineering practices, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver innovative solutions in advertising technology.
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Responsibilities
Contribute to a team of big data and backend engineers to deliver high value projects
Build components of large-scale data platform for batch and real-time processing, and own features of big data applications to fit evolving business needs
Build next-gen cloud based big data infrastructure for batch and streaming data applications, and continuously improve performance, scalability and availability
Balance architectural and design considerations such as performance, scalability, reusability and flexibility issues
Advocate the best engineering practices, including the use of design patterns, CI/CD, code review and automated test
Collaborate with researchers to productize cutting edge innovations at scale
Collaborate with program managers, product managers, SDET, and researchers in an open and innovative environment
Qualification
Required
Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Electronics Engineering, or related field
At least 7 years of professional programming and design experience in Scala, Java, Python etc
3+ years of big data development experience with technical stacks like Spark, Hive, SingleStore, Airflow, Kafka, Flink and AWS
Strong communication skills and project leading experience
Strong knowledge of system / application design and architecture
Experience with processing large amount of data at petabyte level
Demonstrated ability with cloud infrastructure technologies, including Terraform, K8S, Spinnaker, etc
Passionate about technologies, and openness to interdisciplinary work
Preferred
Demonstrated ability with cloud infrastructure technologies, including Terraform, K8S, Spinnaker, etc
Experience with Grafana, Datadog
Experience in widely used Web framework (React.js, Vue.js, Angular, etc.) and good knowledge of Web stack HTML, CSS, Webpack
Ads domain knowledge
Benefits
A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package
The full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits
Company
The Walt Disney Company
The Walt Disney Company started as a cartoon studio and evolves into sports coverage and television shows.
10001+ employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$11BKey Investors
Citibank
2020-04-13Post Ipo Debt· $5B
2020-03-20Post Ipo Debt· $6B
1978-01-06IPO
Leadership Team
Robert Iger
CEO
Christine M. McCarthy
Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Recent News
2025-12-24
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