Sr Product Software Engineer I

The Ad Serving Engineering organization within Disney Entertainment and the ESPN organization is 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, Disney+, 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 entitlements, correct pacing, targeting, selection of ads, and third-party systems.

As part of the Decisioning Fleet, you will directly contribute to optimizing ad qualification and selection to make sure viewers always see the right ad at the right time. You will also help build tools that analyze what ads are competing for slots for ad breaks across Hulu, Disney+, ESPN, and others.

As a Senior Fullstack Software Engineer (P3) on our team, you’ll leverage your technical expertise to design and deliver scalable, performant, and maintainable solutions that directly impact the stability and quality of Disney’s ad delivery systems.

Daily, you should bring:

● A willingness and desire to effectively communicate and collaborate across teams and systems.

● An understanding of the importance of project ownership.

● A passion for mentoring, learning, and adapting to a very dynamic and fast-paced environment.

● An understanding of micro-service encapsulation and loose coupling, and why they are important.

● An understanding of how to define technical and operational metrics to measure system health and to manage risk.

● Use AI tools responsibly to improve productivity while adhering to company policies.

● Kindness and pragmatic optimism.

● SpringBoot and related Spring projects.

● Modern frontend development practices

● Non-relational database technologies like DynamoDB.

● Caching datastores such as Redis, ValKey or MemCache.

● Data Streaming Mechanisms such as Apache Kafka and/or Kinesis.

● Cloud platforms such as AWS.

● Modern DevOps tools such as Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes.

● Familiarity with AI productivity tools and their application in software development.

● Domain knowledge in Ad Tech.

● Engineers are expected to be in the office four days a week.

● This role is hiring in San Francisco, Santa Monica, Glendale, or Seattle

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