The Walt Disney Company

Lead Software Engineer

The Walt Disney Company

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Santa Monica • California, New York • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $152,200 - $204,100 per year

Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

AirflowAmazon RedshiftApacheAWSBigQueryCloudDynamoDBGoGraphQLKubernetesMicroservicesPythonRedisScalaSparkSQLTerraform

About the role

  • Be a key player in a cross-functional team of engineers who build software for a large-scale data processing ecosystem, supporting real-time and batch data pipelines for analytics, data science, and operations
  • Architect, design, and code shared libraries in Scala and Python that abstract complex business logic to allow consistent functionality across all data pipelines across the Data organization
  • Work to architect and build world class modularized tooling to understand our very complex environments to come up with plans for simplification, migration, and maintenance.
  • Maintain software engineering and architecture best practices and standards within the team and wider organization, along with a culture of quality, innovation, and experimentation
  • Evangelize and evolve the platform, best-practices, data driven decisions; identify new use cases and features and drive adoption
  • Build out a robust observability, alerting, logging, and system control plane that allows easy diagnosis of any issues across all our data pipelines
  • Contribute to maintaining, updating, and expanding existing software deployments while maintaining strict uptime SLAs
  • Contribute to developing and documenting both internal and external standards and best practices for software deployments, configurations, naming conventions, partitioning strategies, and more.
  • Maintain detailed documentation of your work and changes to support data quality and data governance requirements
  • Be an active participant and advocate of agile/scrum ceremonies to collaborate and improve processes for our team
  • Collaborate with product managers, architects, and other engineers to drive the success of the Foundational Platform

Requirements

  • 7+ years of data engineering experience in software engineering in the data space
  • Strong software algorithmic problem-solving expertise
  • Strong fundamental Scala and Python software programming skills
  • Good understanding of AWS or other cloud provider resources (S3)
  • Strong SQL skills and ability to creatively problem solve and dive deep into our data and software ecosystem
  • Hands-on production environment experience with distributed processing systems such as Apache Spark
  • Hands-on production experience with workflow orchestration systems such as Airflow for creating and maintaining data pipelines
  • Scripting language experience (Bash, PowerShell)
  • Technologies such as OneTrust, Databricks, Jupyter, Snowflake, Redshift, Airflow, DynamoDB, Redis, Kubernetes, Kinesis, REST APIs, Terraform, Go SQL, Python, Scala, other computer software languages
  • Willingness and ability to learn and pick up new skillsets
  • Self-starting problem solver with an eye for detail and excellent analytical and communication skills
  • Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems preferred
  • Experience with at least one major Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) or cloud database technology (Snowflake, Redshift, Big Query)
  • Experience in developing APIs with GraphQL
  • Experience in developing microservices
  • Deep Understanding of AWS or other cloud providers as well as infrastructure as code
  • Familiarity with Data Modeling techniques and Data Warehousing standard methodologies and practices
  • Familiar with Scrum and Agile methodologies
  • Familiarity with privacy regulations and/or data subject rights
Benefits
  • full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
ScalaPythonSQLApache SparkAirflowBashPowerShellGraphQLmicroservicesdata modeling
Soft skills
problem-solvinganalytical skillscommunication skillsself-startingattention to detailcollaborationinnovationadaptabilityquality assuranceagile mindset
Certifications
Master’s Degree in Computer ScienceMaster’s Degree in Information Systems
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