The Walt Disney Company · 16 hours ago
Manager Software Engineering
Glendale, CA, USA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$172K/yr - $230K/yr
8+ years expThe Walt Disney Company is a global leader in entertainment and technology, seeking an Engineering Manager for their Audience Data and Measurement team. This role involves leading a team to develop scalable technical solutions and drive innovation in Disney's advertising technology and products.
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Responsibilities
Coach, mentor and motivate team to follow technical standards and best practices and build best technical platform
Inspire individual and business success. Define strategies, priorities, and expectations. Provide continuous coaching and feedback. Develop self and others and support career aspirations. Demonstrate care and compassion. Create an environment where Company values are experienced
Contribute to organization processes that improve velocity and impact of business initiatives. Ensure Release Management standards and processes are followed by the team
Build a constant learning culture to improve innovation and team productivity. Grow brand awareness of the team
Practice effective art of delegation and ensure team completes yearly OKR goals
Optimize team's Capex and Opex budget to improve Company's bottomline
Collaborate with fellow engineers to keep the team’s technology radar and architecture principles aligned to the industry and needs of our users
Deliver multiple projects utilizing an Agile methodology. Provide accurate estimation of product initiatives, sprint roadmap, delivery plan and forecasts
Take a high ownership, self-sufficient, hands-on position on the team to collaborate and drive quality, maintain application stability. Be fully aware of product requirements and coach, mentor, motivate the team to provide correct solutions. Have awareness of end-to-end Organization's engineering architecture
Chip in ground-breaking innovation and apply the state-of-the-art technologies
Work with leads, product managers and managers to ensure that all project initiatives are delivered on time with high quality
Collaborate with team to develop software architectures which are robust, fault-tolerant, and cloud-native
Work collaboratively with other service teams, build collaborative relationships with product, project managers, QA, cross team leads, build consensus and alignment amongst all members and help with resolving roadblocks
Ensure team develops high quality components of large-scale data platform for real-time and batch processing, and own features of big data applications to fit evolving business needs
Coach team to design next-gen cloud based big data infrastructure for batch and streaming data applications, and continuously improve performance, scalability and availability. Possess AWS managed service solution design and implementation experience
Reason logically and creatively, identifying problems, drawing valid conclusions from the data available, and develop effective solutions while applying creative thinking in the design and development of high performing data applications
Contribute to the best engineering practices, including the use of design patterns, architecture, design, technical analysis, research spikes, POCs, CI/CD, code review and automated tests. Ensure code is deployed to production only after thorough review and approval process
As a key member of the team, contribute to all aspects of the software lifecycle: design, experimentation, implementation and testing
Design complex programs, analyze code changes and suggest improvements
Investigate and resolve any production issues from end user to persistence layer and work to prevent them. Ensure business is not interrupted due to PROD incidents
Qualification
Required
Hold a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Engineering, or another technical field
Have 8+ years of management experience in software engineering in a large enterprise environment using Java, Python, Javascript, including familiarity with modern web frameworks and platforms (e.g., Spring, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka)
Have 8+ years of management experience in big data application development in a large enterprise environment using Java, Scala, Python, including familiarity with modern big data frameworks and platforms (e.g., Spark, Flink, Singlestore, Kafka, Nifi and AWS big data technologies)
Be able to demonstrate significant experience working with relational databases, SQL and newer NoSQL data stores as well as event streaming platforms
Demonstrated ability with cloud infrastructure technologies, including Terraform, K8S, Spinnaker, IAM, ALB, etc
Have a strong interest in open source technology
Knowledge of building highly available and scalable services
Passion about technologies and openness to interdisciplinary work
Possess good communication skills and enjoy mentoring and helping others to succeed as a team
Care about your craft and have opinions about the 'right' way to do things with technology
Preferred
Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related technical discipline is desirable
Previous work experience in advertising industry-based applications
Experience working with vendor teams to deliver high quality results
Knowledge of performance testing and application profiling (Gatling, JProfiler)
Strong curiosity about how Disney delivers the Magic and a desire to be a part of it
Benefits
A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package
Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits
Company
The Walt Disney Company
The Walt Disney Company started as a cartoon studio and evolves into sports coverage and television shows.
10001+ employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$11BKey Investors
Citibank
2020-04-13Post Ipo Debt· $5B
2020-03-20Post Ipo Debt· $6B
1978-01-06IPO
Leadership Team
Jamie Power
SVP, Addressable Sales
Nick Lewerke
SVP/Head of Content Planning & Analysis, Disney Streaming
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