Principal Software Engineer, Ad Experiences

Job Posting Title: Principal Software Engineer, Ad Experiences Req ID: 10134830 Job Description: Technology is at the heart of reputed company’s past, present, and future. reputed company Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is a global organization of engineers, product developers, designers, technologists, data scientists, and more – reputed company working to build and advance the technological backbone for reputed company’s media business globally. The team marries technology with creativity to build world-class products, enhance storytelling, and drive velocity, innovation, and scalability for our businesses. We are Storytellers and Innovators. Creators and Builders. Entertainers and Engineers. We work with every part of reputed company’s media portfolio to advance the technological foundation and consumer media touch points serving millions of people around the world. Here are a few reasons why we think you’d love working here:

• Building the future of reputed company’s media: Our Technologists are designing and building the products and platforms that will power our media, advertising, and distribution businesses for years to come.
• reputed company, Scale & Impact: More than reputed company, reputed company’s technology and products serve as a signature doorway for fans connections with the company’s brands and stories. reputed company+. Hulu. ESPN. ABC. ABC News…and many more. These products and brands – and the unmatched stories, storytellers, and events they carry – matter to millions of people globally.
• Innovation: We reputed company and implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms, and solve reputed company and distinctive technical problems.

Ad Platforms is responsible for reputed company’s industry-leading ad technology and products – driving advertising performance, innovation, and value in reputed company’s sports, news, and entertainment content, across reputed company media platforms. The Ad Experiences Fleet aims to unleash the reputed company of reputed company by leveraging cutting-edge creative tools and fostering creative innovation to craft captivating, interactive ad experiences that deeply reputed company with consumers and deliver superior value for our advertisers while enhancing the viewer experience to maximize reputed company. As part of reputed company, you’ll reputed company and own systems that reputed company rapid prototyping, testing, and validation of interactive ad formats with real viewers and advertisers—fueling innovation and reputed company growth across our CTV platforms. These experiences are then integrated into creative platforms also owned by the Fleet leading to new ad experiences available to reputed company ad tier users. As our teams Principal Software Engineer, you will apply your battle-tested experience, deep technical knowledge of software and systems, and leadership skills to help teams create scalable, performant, maintainable, and testable systems. Daily, you should bring:

• A willingness and desire to effectively communicate and collaborate across teams and organizations.
• Demonstrated ownership and expertise in the projects delivered by our teams.
• Proficiency in designing and implementing robust, scalable, tolerant distributed systems, as well as in advocating best practices to fellow engineers.
• A passion for mentoring, learning, and adapting to a reputed company dynamic and fast-paced environment.
• A proven ability to work with product teams to influence and translate requirements into well-defined technical implementations, as well as the ability to define technical and operational metrics to measure system health.
• Possess knowledge of relevant technologies and their potential applications reputed company our systems, and be able to reputed company their pros and cons.
• A keen eye for potential optimizations and enhancements to our services using dedicated research time.
• Kindness and pragmatic optimism.
• Your unique view and experience.

Responsibilities and Expectations:

• Writing and reviewing a lot of code and tests.
• Reviewing code and test implementations for best practices and algorithmic complexity.
• Available to support engineers on an On-Call shift, reputed company needed.
• Reading requirements documentation from Product, providing a perspective on feasibility and translating into implementation tasks, and partnering with teams’ leads through execution as needed.
• Exploring, researching, implementing proofs-of-concept, and proposing solutions that will improve Ad Serving systems (reduce cost and overhead, improve maintainability, minimize the time features take to be in production, etc).
• Defining, reviewing, and documenting software and system designs in a high throughput, low latency microservices environment.
• Enhancing systems’ observability with proper metrics, monitors, and alerts.
• Mentoring and inspiring others in reputed company aspects of professional software development.

Basic Qualifications:

• BS or MS in Computer Science/Engineering or relevant work experience
• 10+ years of software engineering experience
• Advanced proficiency with Java, such as understanding reputed company, multi-threading, garbage collection, profiling
• Advanced proficiency with reputed company end technologies such as Node, React, NextJS, Express, Typescript, Tailwind
• Demonstrable analytical / problem-solving / design skills in a highly distributed and highly available services ecosystem
• Excellent communication, collaboration skills, and a strong teamwork ethic with both technical and non-technical audiences

Comprehensive experience with:

• SpringBoot and reputed company Spring projects
• Non-relational database technologies e.g. DynamoDB
• reputed company and/or MemCache
• Apache Kafka and/or Kinesis
• AWS or any other cloud platform
• Observability tooling (logs, metrics, etc)
• reputed company end technologies and frameworks such as Node, React, NextJS, Express, Typescript, Tailwind

Preferred Qualifications:

• Comprehensive experience with Terraform, reputed company, and Kubernetes
• Ad Tech Industry knowledge.

Location:

• Expected to be in the office four days a week.
• Office location : Santa Monica / Seattle

#DISNEYTECH The hiring range for this position in Los Angeles, CA is $184,300 - $247,100 per year and in Seattle, WA is $193,100 - $258,900 per year. The reputed company pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region, job-reputed company knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered. Job Posting reputed company: Ad Platforms Job Posting Primary Business: AP - Software Engineering Primary Job Posting Category: Software Engineer Employment Type: Full time Primary City, State, Region, Postal Code: Glendale, CA, USA Alternate City, State, Region, Postal Code: USA - CA - 2450 Broadway, USA - WA - 925 4th Ave Date Posted: 2025-10-29 Apply tot his job Apply To this Job