Staff Software Data Engineer

The Walt Disney Studios is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join their Performance Marketing team. In this role, you will help develop innovative tools and applications for data-driven marketing campaigns while ensuring high standards of software engineering and data modeling are maintained.

Responsibilities:

• Drive the development and roadmap execution of the suite of tools used by the Performance Marketing group
• Own and evolve software engineering, data modeling, and architectural standards within the team; create and uphold standards and rigor around software development, testing, deployment, and documentation
• Quickly develop a deep understanding of the business of marketing and create new technical solutions or platforms that can accelerate our broader team's velocity and impact
• Implement full stack applications or author workflows that facilitate the execution of data-driven media campaigns on third party ad platforms
• Help fellow engineers hurdle roadblocks; create tools that empower scientists and developers to quickly test, iterate, and promote to production
• Implement quality controls, monitoring, and other safeguards to ensure optimizations are accurately and safely applied to in-flight ad campaigns and key business metrics are always presented accurately

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent work experience)
• 8+ years of experience designing and delivering backend architectures in a production environment, with a strong understanding of design patterns and best practices
• Strong opinions on how to best use AI/LLMs in the software development process; ability to quickly discern hype from value in the quickly evolving AI landscape (and an equal ability to put it into practice)
• Experience developing full-stack applications or backend services, using popular frameworks; knowledge of front-end frameworks like Angular
• Understanding of cloud compute and modern dev ops practices; experience crafting and owning CI/CD pipelines for applications
• Experience with data-rich environments and a fluency with SQL and data modeling
• Ability to make this architecture fit with over marketing priorities and context
• Experience working in a fast-paced environment with cross-functional teams to translate business needs into reality-based requirements
• Experience working effectively with data science teams
• Familiarity or experience with front-end web development and UX design
• Familiarity with Kubernetes and building scalable services
• Specific experience with our stack: Spark, Python, Angular, Spring Boot, Databricks/AWS, Chart.js
• Knowledge of media buying and ad platforms including DMPs, Google Ads, Facebook/Instagram, Innovid, LiveRamp and DSPs (Google Display Video, The Trade Desk, Yahoo)