Hybrid Senior Software Engineer

at The Walt Disney Company

• Job title: Senior Software Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $138,900 - $186,200 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Airflow, AWS, Cloud, Distributed Systems, Kafka, Python, Scala, Spark
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Glendale, United States

About the role

• Senior Software Engineer building components of a large-scale data platform for Disney's ad technologies. Leading innovations in cloud-based big data infrastructure with a collaborative engineering culture.

Responsibilities

• Build components of large-scale data platform for real-time and batch 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
• Contribute to the best engineering practices, including the use of design patterns, CI/CD, code review and automated test
• Contribute to ground-breaking innovation and apply the state-of-the-art technologies
• As a key member of the team, you will contribute to all aspects of the software lifecycle: design, experimentation, implementation and testing.
• Collaborate with program managers, product managers, SDET, and researchers in an open and innovative environment
• Own end-to-end delivery of substantial features or subsystems.
• Promote a positive, inclusive, and collaborative engineering culture.
• Identify and resolve root causes of complex production issues.
• Provide constructive feedback and mentorship to junior engineers.

Requirements

• Bachelor or above in computer science or EE
• 5+ years of professional programming in Scala, Python, and etc.
• 3+ years of big data development experience with technical stacks like Spark, Flink, Airflow, Singlestore, Kafka and AWS big data technologies
• Deep understanding of data modeling, distributed systems, and performance optimization
• Knowledge of system, application design and architecture
• Experience of building industry level high available and scalable service
• Passion about technologies, and openness to interdisciplinary work
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

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, dependent on the level and position offered.