The Walt Disney Company

Lead Software Engineer, Ad Serving

The Walt Disney Company

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States • California

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Salary

💰 $152,200 - $223,600 per year

Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

ApacheAWSCloudDockerDynamoDBJavaKafkaKubernetesMicroservicesRedisSpringSpring BootSpringBootTerraform

About the role

  • Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology Ad Serving Engineering builds a high-performance, distributed, microservice-based Digital Advertising Platform
  • Stack includes Java, Spring, Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform
  • Develop and support ad delivery systems for on-demand and live TV content
  • Lead by example, mentor peers, define metrics, ensure scalability and reliability
  • On-call rotations per team policy

Requirements

  • BS or MS in Computer Science / Engineering or relevant work experience
  • 7+ years of software engineering experience
  • Advanced proficiency with Java (memory mgmt, multi-threading, profiling, thread pools, etc.)
  • Experience with SpringBoot and related Spring projects
  • Non-relational databases (DynamoDB)
  • Caching datastores (Redis, MemCache, ValKey)
  • Apache Kafka and/or Kinesis
  • AWS
  • Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes
  • Microservice architecture
  • Demonstrated analytical/problem-solving skills
  • Strong communication and teamwork