Senior Software Engineer, Insights Reporting & AI

Posted 12 Hours Ago
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New York, NY
Hybrid
143K-191K Annually
Senior level
AdTech • Digital Media • News + Entertainment
Create the Tech Behind Our Magic
The Role
The Senior Software Engineer will design and maintain production-level models to monitor datasets and engineering services, leveraging machine learning and AI techniques. Responsibilities include developing scalable API endpoints, mentoring junior team members, collaborating across teams, and identifying opportunities for innovation.
Summary Generated by Built In

We are seeking an experienced Sr. Software Engineer who is passionate about leveraging product insights to uncover trends through innovative analysis, advanced machine learning & artificial intelligence models, and optimized engineering processes. In this role you will partner across the business to build innovative and advanced tooling to empower partner teams with insights into the performance and behavior of their services, applications, and products to ultimately enhance customer experience.
Engineering Services designs, builds, and sustains technology that powers DE&E Technology's worldwide content production and distribution platforms. In doing so, they contribute to a series of cross-functional services and technologies, including Quality Assurance, Data Analytics, Software Development, Broadcast Infrastructure, and Networking & Security.
Do you have a passion for observability and analytics and love working with software engineering teams? Then please continue reading!
Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and maintain production level models to monitor critical datasets and engineering services in streaming and batch; informing end user customer experience and insights into the health of our applications, products and offerings
  • Build and experiment new model frameworks, machine learning approaches and artificial intelligence best practices from research through production rollout including continuous optimization and orchestration
  • Create and deploy scalable API endpoints to provide predictive scores and explainability feedback to other applications, engineering processes and team
  • Serve as a technical leader on the team, providing mentorship and technical best practices to more junior members.
  • Understand engineering infrastructure and business processes that power critical systems, applications and streaming infrastructure
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with various teams and verticals, to identify opportunities, business requirements and a path to technical implementation
  • Discover opportunities for innovation and improvements across the entire engineering space


Basic Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience
  • Python, Spark, or Pyspark is required
  • High familiarity with data platforms and applications such as Databricks, Jupyter, Snowflake, Redshift, Airflow
  • Applied experience of frameworks like PyTorch, Keras, Tensorflow, etc
  • Experience operating in an SDLC environment and deploying production engineering models and code
  • Exceptional interpersonal and written communication skills, able to concisely synthesize complex technical information
  • Strong analytical and technical skills to troubleshoot issues, perform rapid iteration and quickly come-up with the possible solutions, effectively communicating these to technical and executive audiences across the organization
  • Experience with Agile methodologies and using tools such as Jira to track and perform ceremonies
  • Bachelors degree in computer science or relevant filed.


Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience leading best practices and technical implementations at production scale for a software engineering team.
  • Familiarity with data platforms and infrastructure such as MySQL, Datadog, Conviva
  • Knowledge of API design and microservices architecture
  • Experience in the streaming industry, knowledge of client and server side architecture is a plus


The hiring range for this position in New York City and Seattle, Washington is $145,400 - $195,000 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.

Top Skills

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The Company
HQ: Burbank , CA
200,000 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 1923

What We Do

Innovation is in the DNA of The Walt Disney Company. We not only embrace it, we translate it into experiences you can see and feel. From our groundbreaking work in advanced audio-animatronic robots featured in the Disney theme parks, to streaming services that are redefining entertainment, to inventing tools to create new worlds in our films — The Walt Disney Company has spent nearly 100 years immersing audiences in new and stunning experiences using groundbreaking technology. When next generation technology meets talented people ready to tackle challenges still to be imagined, anything can happen.

Why Work With Us

Every technologist at Disney is essential to helping us create unforgettable experiences and innovative products. Our teams constantly spearhead innovation by incubating cutting-edge ideas into production-ready solutions. At Disney, you’ll make an impact you can see and feel with a team that both supports and challenges your thinking.

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