Lead Solutions Engineer

The Walt Disney Company • Glendale, CA • 1h ago

10128153 Lead Solutions Engineer

Technology is at the heart of Disney's past, present, and future. Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is a global organization of engineers, product developers, designers, technologists, data scientists, and more - all working to build and advance the technological backbone for Disney'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 The Walt Disney 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 Disney'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.

Reach, Scale & Impact: More than ever, Disney's technology and products serve as a signature doorway for fans' connections with the company's brands and stories. Disney+. 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 develop and implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms, and solve complex and distinctive technical problems.

Ad Platforms is responsible for Disney's industry-leading ad technology and products - driving advertising performance, innovation, and value in Disney's sports, news, and entertainment content, across all media platforms.

We're seeking an ambitious Lead Solutions Engineer who will be responsible for owning day-to-day technical operations for the Automated Marketplace at Disney. We're looking for an individual who enjoys solving complex & technical problems, is an innately investigative thinker, works with a sense of urgency, and has experience with critical service operations and strives to provide a high standard of customer satisfaction in high volume, production environments.

The team is fast moving and requires you to translate technology solutions into business impact, while efficiently working with developers, sales, product and operations. For this particular role, you should be well versed in ad technology and distributed systems and comfortable getting into the details of operational mechanics. You will be accountable for the monitoring, health and growth of the Automated Marketplace.

Responsibilities:

Owning day-to-day technical operations for the Ad Platforms Technical Operations team Automated Marketplace and Core Ad Serving integrations

Ensure monitoring and alerting on production services are in place, and be available on-call for production incidents and new product launches

Triage, respond to and de-escalate inbound escalations (tickets) in a timely manner while maintaining a high standard of professionalism and client satisfaction

Investigate complex issues, diagnose product bugs, and resolve requests

Develop strong partnerships with sales, support, engineering, product management and analytics leaders to drive focus on strategic and tactical channel objectives

Maintain detailed support documentation for both internal and external use to strategically identify and understand trends

Act as a leader by example on the team, contributing to the development of best practices, team processes, and peer training

Ability to think on your feet during challenging situations, adapting to change

Able to communicate in multiple avenues to multiple levels of leadership successfully

Basic Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related discipline; and/or relevant experience

7+ years of experience in ad technology, operations, support or incident management.

Deep understanding of Exchanges, Real-time Bidding, Demand Side Platforms, Supply Side Platforms, 1st and 2nd price auctions, Programmatic Marketplaces (PMP) and Programmatic Guaranteed (PG) deal @types

Strong grasp of online video and display advertising and monetization.

Solid understanding of IAB specs OpenRTB, VAST/VPAID/VMAP

Working knowledge of ad trafficking workflows in an enterprise Ad Server like Google Ad Manager, Freewheel or similar system

Experience managing a support ticket queue in JIRA, Zendesk, or similar system.

Fluency in SQL. Experience with AWS Athena, DynamoDB, MySQL, Snowflake, or Hive

Working knowledge of monitoring platforms (Cloudwatch, Datadog, Pagerduty or similar platforms)

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The hiring range for this position in California is $138,900.00 to $186,200.00 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate's geographic region, job-related 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 ID: 10128153

Location: Glendale,California

Job Posting Company: Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology

The Walt Disney Company and its Affiliated Companies are Equal Employment Opportunity employers and welcome all job seekers including individuals with disabilities and veterans with disabilities. If you have a disability and believe you need a reasonable accommodation in order to search for a job opening or apply for a position, email Candidate.Accommodations@Disney.com with your request. This email address is not for general employment inquiries or correspondence. We will only respond to those requests that are related to the accessibility of the online application system due to a disability.

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