Ad Platform - Principal Software Engineer ( Remote or Hybrid )
Job Summary: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
- Expertise in designing and implementing robust, scalable, redundant distributed systems, as well as in advocating best practices to fellow engineers
- 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
- Knowledge on recent technologies and their application within our systems
- A keen eye for potential optimizations and enhancements to our services
- Kindness and pragmatic optimism
- Your unique view and experience
Responsibilities:
- Writing and reviewing a lot of code and tests
- Reviewing code and test implementations for best practices and algorithmic complexity
- 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, and documenting software and system designs in a high throughput, low latency microservices environment
- Enhancing systems’ observability with proper metrics, monitors and alerts
- Delegating tasks to engineers across all teams, as needed
Basic Qualifications:
- BS or MS in Computer Science/Engineering or relevant work experience
- 10+ years of software engineering experience
- Advanced proficiency with Java, such as understanding heap, multi-threading, garbage collection, profiling
- Demonstrable analytical / problem solving / design skills in a highly distributed and highly available services ecosystem
- Excellent communication, collaboration skills and a strong teamwork ethic with both technical and non-technical audiences
- AWS or any other cloud platform
- Comprehensive experience with:
- SpringBoot and related Spring projects
- Non-relational database technologies e.g. DynamoDB
- Redis and/or MemCache
- Apache Kafka and/or Kinesis
Preferred Qualifications:
- Comprehensive experience Terraform, Docker and Kubernetes
- Ad Tech industry
Required Education
- BS or MS in Computer Science/Engineering or relevant work experience
Additional Information:Alternate Location: Remote (working hours would need to closely overlap with PST)
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