Staff Software Engineer

About the Role

Join the Performance Marketing arm of The Walt Disney Company's Enterprise Media and Marketing team — an integrated, cross-functional team of marketers, software engineers, data scientists, and analysts who execute highly data-driven marketing campaigns.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you'll help expand our technology portfolio of innovative campaign planning tools, complex data science workflows, and elegant web applications that blend the art of advertising with the science of data-backed insights. Our team is embedded directly within the Disney marketing organization — aligned, mission-driven, and free to move fast.

What You'll Do

• Lead design and development of high-quality web applications used daily by Performance Marketing, owning the experience end to end
• Own and evolve software engineering, data modeling, and architectural standards
• Create new technical solutions and platforms to accelerate team velocity
• Implement full stack applications facilitating data-driven media campaigns on third-party ad platforms
• Implement quality controls and safeguards to ensure optimizations are accurately applied to in-flight campaigns

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, or equivalent
• 8+ years of experience designing and delivering full stack architectures in production
• Strong proficiency with Angular (or React/Vue), TypeScript, HTML, CSS
• Strong opinions on AI/LLMs in the software development process
• Understanding of cloud compute and modern DevOps; experience with CI/CD pipelines
• Fluency with SQL and data modeling

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with design systems and shared component libraries (Tailwind CSS)
• Familiarity with Kubernetes and scalable services
• Our stack: Spark, Python, Angular, Spring Boot, Databricks/AWS, Chart.js
• Knowledge of media buying and ad platforms (Google Ads, Facebook/Instagram, LiveRamp, DSPs)

Pay & Benefits

• Pay: $155,700–$208,700/yr (Burbank, CA)
• Bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided
• Full range of medical, financial, and other benefits