Sr Software Engineer

About Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology

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.

• Reach, Scale & Impact: 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. 

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

Commerce, Data & Identity (CDI) provides the core product management functions for areas crucial to Disney’s media businesses. These include initiatives and products that power digital commerce, identity, and growth, as well as those that reach uniquely across The Walt Disney Company enterprise, such as messaging and privacy, among others. Additionally, it is responsible for the data engineering, science, and products for Disney Entertainment & ESPN, along with their interconnection with other parts of The Walt Disney Company.

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Experimentation Data team, part of Commerce, Data & Identity. This team is directly responsible for several critical data products and services that power A/B testing across our streaming platforms. The ideal candidate for this role will have a strong technical background and is passionate about designing and building systems to process data at scale to provide business value and unlock powerful insights. Our tech stack includes AWS, Databricks, Airflow and Spark, and languages include Scala and Python.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the design and growth of our Data Products and Services enabling experimentation at petabyte scale, working across the stack from big data to backend services and APIs

• Maintain detailed documentation of your work and changes to support data quality and data governance

• Work with stakeholders and partner teams to identify and solve business needs in the domain of data and data access, particularly in the space of using experimentation and data to improve our product and customer experience

• Ensure high operational efficiency and quality of your solutions to meet SLAs and support commitment to our customers

• Be an active participant and advocate of agile practice to ensure health and process improvements for your team

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of software or data engineering experience

• Familiarity with data pipelines and orchestration frameworks (Spark, Hadoop, Databricks, Airflow)

• Demonstrated expertise in modeling data to support business needs at scale

• Strong programming skills in Java, Scala or Python

• Proven SQL skills and ability to build queries to analyze complex datasets

• Knowledge of data warehouse solutions, including Databricks and Snowflake, with the ability to weigh tradeoffs when choosing a technology

• You are a problem solver with strong attention to detail and excellent analytical and communication skills, who will collaborate to build greenfield solutions with high business value

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with A/B testing, bandits, or other mechanisms for measuring product performance in a controlled fashion

• Any background in mathematics, statistics, and machine learning

Required Education

• Bachelor’s degree or the foreign equivalent in Computer Science or a closely related field

Additional Information

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The hiring range for this position in Seattle, WA and New York City, NY is $148,700 to $199,400 per year and in Santa Monica, CA and Bristol, CT is $141,900 to $190,300 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.