Manager, Software Engineering - Ads Data Infrastructure and Devops

Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology

On any given day at Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology, we’re reimagining ways to create magical viewing experiences for the world’s most beloved stories while also transforming Disney’s media business for the future. Whether that’s evolving our streaming and digital products in new and immersive ways, powering worldwide advertising and distribution to maximize flexibility and efficiency, or delivering Disney’s unmatched entertainment and sports content, every day is a moment to make a difference to partners and to hundreds of millions of people around the world.

A few reasons why we think you’d love working for Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology

• Building the future of Disney’s media business: DE&E Technologists are designing and building the infrastructure that will power Disney’s media, advertising, and distribution businesses for years to come.

• Reach & Scale: The products and platforms this group builds and operates delight millions of consumers every minute of every day – from Disney+ and Hulu, to ABC News and Entertainment, to ESPN and ESPN+, and much more.

• Innovation: We develop and execute groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms and enhance how audiences experience sports, entertainment & news.

The DEET 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 our evolution, helping us create what's next.

Ad Platform Data Infrastructure is responsible for providing a stable platform in AWS for the data engineering teams to build upon. Our activities stretch from building big data infrastructure in AWS, to defining custom deployment pipelines, to troubleshooting performance issues. We cover a wide range of tools and support these as well as the production environment. The individual we are looking for will provide leadership in all of these areas.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead team planning and coordination within each sprint

• Coordinate with the other Ad Platform Infrastructure teams

• Coordinate with Ad Platform Data Engineering to ensure proper prioritization

• Troubleshoot issues between teams with respect to project initiatives and technical

• dependencies

• Troubleshoot issues between members of their team, both interpersonal and technical in

• nature

• Mentor team members and participate in their growth as engineers.

• Guide technical solutions to ensure they align with business needs and timelines

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience.

• 6+ years of cloud infrastructure experience

• 6+ years of software development experience with python, Go or Scala

• 3+ years of big data infrastructure experience

• 4+ years of big data infrastructure leadership experience

• Demonstrable analytical/problem solving skills

• Great communication, collaboration skills and a strong teamwork ethic with both

• technical and non-technical audiences

Preferred Qualification:

• Deep experience with AWS

• Experience managing Databricks environments on AWS

• Experience managing EKS

• Experience managing Spark and/or Flink on Databricks or on Kubernetes/EKS

• Experience with Apache Kafka and/or Kinesis

• Experience with Apache Airflow

• Ad Tech industry experience

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