Manager Software Engineering

Technology is at the heart of Disney's past, present, and future. Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is a global organization of engineers, product developers, designers, technologists, data scientists, and more – all working to build and advance the technological backbone for Disney's media business globally.

The team marries technology with creativity to build world-class products, enhance storytelling, and drive velocity, innovation, and scalability for our businesses. We are Storytellers and Innovators. Creators and Builders. Entertainers and Engineers. We work with every part of The Walt Disney Company's media portfolio to advance the technological foundation and consumer media touch points serving millions of people around the world.

Here are a few reasons why we think you'd love working here :

• Building the future of Disney's media :

Our Technologists are designing and building the products and platforms that will power our media, advertising, and distribution businesses for years to come.

More than ever, Disney's technology and products serve as a signature doorway for fans' connections with the company's brands and stories. Disney+. Hulu. ESPN. ABC. ABC News…and many more. These products and brands – and the unmatched stories, storytellers, and events they carry – matter to millions of people globally.

We develop and implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms, and solve complex and distinctive technical problems.

Ad Platforms is responsible for Disney's industry-leading ad technology and products – driving advertising performance, innovation, and value in Disney's sports, news, and entertainment content, across all media platforms.

Job Summary :

The Audience Data and Measurement team is part of Ad Platforms, with a mission to help advertisers reach the right audience and deliver personalized, optimized experiences tailored to customer needs and interests. Our Audience Data and Measurement Platform offers a unified solution for audience data exchange and enrichment, as well as high-concurrency, low-latency audience targeting services powered by advanced data technologies. This is a dynamic, cross-domain team delivering end-to-end solutions across diverse technical areas, including machine learning, big data, microservices, and data visualization.

As an Engineering Manager, you will lead your team by example : taking a hands-on role in engineering solid, performant and scalable technical solutions. You will use your deep engineering, architecture, and leadership skills to drive your team to iteratively and continuously deploy new features, functionality, and products to our customers. You will be an important part of a lean DevOps and automation culture where we'll be looking for you to collaborate with the frontend, backend and data engineering leads to drive architecture, champion code quality, and to build optimized services. We want someone that has grown up through the software development ranks - possessing 10 or more years' experience in designing and architecting highly scalable, secure, performant, usable web and big data applications. The ideal candidate would possess solid skills in big data and full stack technology (Spark, Flink, Java, Spring, RESTful Web Services, Python, Javascript), while having expertise with orchestration and containerization platforms (Airflow, Docker and Kubernetes), coupled with hands on persistence and data streaming technology experience (Databricks, Snowflake, MySQL, Oracle, Cassandra, Redis, Kafka).

While The Walt Disney Company is a large company, ideally, we'd like it if you have some previous experience in a startup environment and are comfortable performing multiple roles. We strive to get things done quickly, with high quality, and we are committed to the agile methodology. Our work is guided by lean principles (looking at value and looking for waste; not doing anything 'for the sake of doing it').

We're looking for a passionate, impactful, technical leader who wants to come here to do their very best work and make their mark, add their chapter to the long and storied history of The Walt Disney Company. Someone who holds themselves and their teammates accountable in a professional, collaborative manner. A collaborative technologist who seeks to bring the best out in themselves and those around them. Someone who can provide a fresh perspective and innovative insight to our initiatives.

Responsibilities and Duties of the Role :

Required Education, Experience / Skills / Training :

Basic Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related technical discipline is desirable

Previous work experience in advertising industry-based applications

Experience working with vendor teams to deliver high quality results

Knowledge of performance testing and application profiling (Gatling, JProfiler)

Strong curiosity about how Disney delivers the Magic and a desire to be a part of it

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The hiring range for this position in Glendale, California is $171,600 to $230,100 per year and in San Francisco, CA is $187,900 to $252,000 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.