Lead Software Engineer - Audience Targeting

Job Posting Title:

Lead Software Engineer - Audience Targeting

Req ID:

10124987

Job Description:

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.

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.

The Audience Targeting 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 Targeting 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.

We are currently seeking a Lead Software Engineer to join our team. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in big data, along with strong expertise in backend services or full-stack development. If you are proactive, dedicated, and passionate about these fields, this role offers an incredible opportunity to make an impact!

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

• Chip in ground-breaking innovation and apply the state-of-the-art technologies

• As a key member of the team, 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

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related, or equitable work experience

• 7+ years of software development experience, and proficiency in Java, Python, or similar language and related service frameworks like Spring Boot.

• 3+ years of big data development experience with technical stacks like Spark, Flink, Singlestore, Kafka, Nifi, and AWS big data technologies

• Experience in relational databases like MySQL or Postgres and NoSQL databases like DynamoDB or MongoDB.

• Excellent problem solving and critical thinking skills in order to efficiently drive resolution of critical issues.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills and ability to drive consensus across cross functional business partners.

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Masters Degree in a related field, and/or related certification/s

• Experience with processing large amount of data at petabyte level

• Demonstrated ability with cloud infrastructure technologies, including Terraform, K8S, Spinnaker, IAM, ALB, and etc.

• Experience with Databricks, Druid, Snowflake, Impala, Presto, Kinesis, etc.

• Experience in front end development such as React or Angular

#DISNEYTECH

The hiring range for this position in Los Angeles, CA is between $152,200 – $204,100 year and San Francisco, CA is between $166,800 - $223,600 and Seattle, WA is between $159,500 – $213,900 and New York is between $159,500 - $213,900. 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.

Job Posting Segment:

Ad Platforms

Job Posting Primary Business:

AP - Software Engineering

Primary Job Posting Category:

Software Engineer

Employment Type:

Full time

Primary City, State, Region, Postal Code:

Santa Monica, CA, USA

Alternate City, State, Region, Postal Code:

USA - CA - Market St, USA - WA - 925 4th Ave

Date Posted:

2025-07-01