Lead Software Engineer, Ad Platforms

The Walt Disney Company

full-time

Posted on: 9/19/2025

Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • California, Washington

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💰 $159,500 - $213,900 per year

Senior

AirflowAngularAWSCloudGrafanaJavaJavaScriptKafkaKubernetesMicroservicesPythonReactScalaSparkSpinnakerTerraformVue.jsWebpack

About the role

Contribute to a team of big data and backend engineers to deliver high value projects
Build components of large-scale data platform for batch and real-time processing, and own features of big data applications to fit evolving business needs
Build next-gen cloud based big data infrastructure for batch and streaming data applications, and continuously improve performance, scalability and availability
Balance architectural and design considerations such as performance, scalability, reusability and flexibility issues
Advocate the best engineering practices, including the use of design patterns, CI/CD, code review and automated test
Collaborate with researchers to productize cutting edge innovations at scale
Collaborate with program managers, product managers, SDET, and researchers in an open and innovative environment
Deliver end-to-end solutions covering machine learning, big data, microservices and data visualization

Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Electronics Engineering, or related field
At least 7 years of professional programming and design experience in Scala, Java, Python etc.
3+ years of big data development experience with technical stacks like Spark, Hive, SingleStore, Airflow, Kafka, Flink and AWS
Strong communication skills and project leading experience
Strong knowledge of system / application design and architecture
Experience with processing large amount of data at petabyte level
Demonstrated ability with cloud infrastructure technologies, including Terraform, K8S, Spinnaker, etc.
Passionate about technologies, and openness to interdisciplinary work
(Preferred) Experience with Grafana, Datadog
(Preferred) Experience in widely used Web framework (React.js, Vue.js, Angular, etc.) and good knowledge of Web stack HTML, CSS, Webpack
(Preferred) Ads domain knowledge