Senior Software Engineer, Programmatic Ad Tech (DRAX)

The Walt Disney Company; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 151,000 - 202,000; Full time

Job summary

The Walt Disney Company is hiring a Senior Software Engineer in Seattle to design, build, test, and operate scalable microservices for Disney's ad tech and platform teams. You will collaborate with product partners, own features end-to-end, and help improve system reliability and observability.

You should have 5+ years in software engineering, strong Java skills, and experience with Spring Boot, DynamoDB, Redis, Kafka, AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes. Office-based with four days on site weekly.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• Strong proficiency with Java and the software development lifecycle.
• Experience with Spring Boot and related Spring projects.
• Experience with DynamoDB, Redis, Memcached, Kafka or Kinesis, AWS, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes.
• Experience with microservice architectures and modern DevOps practices.

Responsibilities

• Develop understanding of the team's domain, services, and operational responsibilities.
• Design, implement, test, deploy, and maintain solutions in a high-throughput, low-latency microservices environment.
• Independently deliver well-defined features and technical projects.
• Participate in design discussions and communicate technical decisions clearly.
• Collaborate with product managers and engineers to translate user stories into engineering tasks.
• Improve code quality, scalability, maintainability, and service reliability through reviews and refactoring.
• Diagnose and resolve software defects and production issues.
• Improve observability through metrics, monitoring, dashboards, and alerting.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

DynamoDB

Redis

Kafka

AWS

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Microservices

Concurrency

Education

CS/Engineering degree

Tools

Kafka

Job description

The Walt Disney Company is hiring a Senior Software Engineer in Seattle to design, build, test, and operate scalable microservices for Disney's ad tech and platform teams. You will collaborate with product partners, own features end-to-end, and help improve system reliability and observability.

You should have 5+ years in software engineering, strong Java skills, and experience with Spring Boot, DynamoDB, Redis, Kafka, AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes. Office-based with four days on site weekly.