Manager, Software Engineering - Ad Platforms

Company: Disney Media & Entertainment Distribution
Location: San Gabriel
Posted on: September 18, 2022

Job Description:

The DMED Technology organization plays a central role in the future growth of The Walt Disney Company. Our team is responsible for worldwide linear and digital media distribution, design and development of all consumer-facing digital products, advertising technology, consumer data, and international broadcast operations. Our employees are leading, creating, and innovating, making bold moves in unexpected directions that redefine not just what a media company does, but what it can do. With The Walt Disney Company, you can be part of media's evolution, helping us create what's next. Ad Serving Engineering organization within Disney Media and Entertainment Distribution organization is fully responsible for building, enhancing and maintaining the high-performance, distributed, microservice-based Digital Advertising Platform. The platform is charged with the qualification, delivery, and tracking of Digital Advertising campaigns (Video on Demand, Live TV, and innovative interactive ads) across all of Disney online properties, including Hulu and ESPN. In addition, Ad Serving teams collaborate in the development of supporting components, such as anti-ad fatigue systems, impression counting pipelines, and ad experience flows. We also work on integrations with critical services responsible for the correct pacing, targeting, and selection of ads. As a member of our team, you will apply your knowledge and skills to help us deliver scalable, performant, maintainable, and testable software. On a daily basis you should bring: A willingness and desire to effectively communicate and collaborate across teams and systems Demonstrated ownership for the projects delivered by your team and department Knowledge of system design and implementation best practices to guide and mentor A passion for mentoring, learning, and adapting to a very dynamic and fast paced environment A proven ability to work with product teams to translate requirements into well-defined technical implementations, as well as the ability to define technical and operational metrics to measure system health A keen eye for potential optimizations and enhancements to our services Kindness and pragmatic optimism Your unique view and experience Responsibilities : Reviewing code and tests Available for a weekly-rotating On-Call support schedule Reading requirements documentation from Product and translating into implementation tickets, and leading the team through execution Defining, reviewing, documenting, and estimating LOE for software and system designs in a high throughput, low latency microservices environment Defining and prioritizing sprintable work for your team, as well as working with other leads on cross-functional projects Enhancing systems' observability with proper metrics, monitors and alerts Weekly 1:1 meetings with team members to guide them through personal and career development Annual reviews for direct reports Basic Qualifications : 8 years of software engineering experience with at least 2 years of technical and engineering leadership experience Advanced proficiency with Java, such as understanding heap, multi-threading, profiling Demonstrable analytical / problem solving skills Great communication, collaboration skills and a strong teamwork ethic with both technical and non-technical audiences Demonstrated experience leading a software development team Preferred Qualifications: Experience with: SpringBoot and related Spring projects Non-relational database technologies e.g. DynamoDB Redis and/or MemCache Apache Kafka and/or Kinesis AWS or other cloud platform Terraform, Docker and Kubernetes Ad Tech industry Required Education : BS in Computer Science / Engineering or relevant work experience Preferred Education : MS in Computer Science / Engineering or relevant work experience Additional Information : ADPLATFORMS

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