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The Walt Disney Company · 16 hours ago

Staff Software Engineer

Remote Worker Location, USA

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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PythonSQLCI/CD PipelinesFastAPISpring BootSparkTerraformCloudFormationJavaScriptDatabricksAWS Cloud ServicesAd PlatformsDigital Ad ServingAngularReactMarketing KPIsProject Management

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