Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology Careers

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology 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. Product Engineering is a unified team responsible for the engineering of Disney Entertainment & ESPN digital and streaming products and platforms. This includes product engineering, media engineering, quality assurance, engineering behind personalization, commerce, lifecycle, and identity. The Observability & Insights group ensures that Disney Streaming's distributed systems are reliable, performant, and transparent. We build the telemetry, dashboards, alerting, insights pipelines, and developer experience tooling that enable engineers across the organization to understand system health and take action quickly. Job Summary: As a Software Engineer II, you will design and build intelligent, AI driven systems that enhance the reliability and performance of Disney's large scale streaming ecosystem. You will develop agentic systems, machine learning models, and real-time pipelines that transform telemetry, logs, and user signals into automated detection, root cause analysis, and proactive insights. In this role, you will contribute to the development of autonomous agents capable of reasoning over complex system behavior, identifying issues in real time, and driving faster detection and resolution across Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN. You will partner closely with engineering, product, and platform teams to embed intelligence directly into operational workflows, improving system resilience and customer experience at scale. You will deliver high quality features end-to-end and contribute to system design and code reviews and begin owning components of production systems within a fast paced, AI native engineering environment. Responsibilities: Design and operate intelligent, production-grade systems that leverage real-time signals and AI-driven detection to improve the health of streaming platforms, critical services, and customer experience Build and scale AI-driven capabilities including agentic AI systems powered by modern foundation models (e.g. Claude Opus/Sonnet, GPT-4) enabling automated reasoning and decisioning, as well as predictive modeling and anomaly detection for real-time system health and reliability Develop end-to-end data and decisioning pipelines that transform telemetry, logs, and user signals into actionable insights, automated detection, and root cause analysis Create and deploy scalable APIs and services that deliver predictive signals, explainability, and insights to engineering teams, operational tools, and product stakeholders Partner cross-functionally to embed intelligence into workflows (incident response, release validation, customer insights), improving speed and reducing operational overhead Drive innovation in observability, reliability, and developer productivity through applied AI and new approaches Basic Qualifications Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience 3+ years of applicable experience in backend development, including building AI-powered or data driven applications and scalable APIs (e.g. FastAPI, Flask) Practical experience in AI/ML engineering, with knowledge in at least one of the following areas: Agentic Workflows: Orchestrating foundation models (GPT-4, Claude) using frameworks like LangChain or LangGraph. Traditional ML: Developing, training, or fine-tuning models using frameworks like PyTorch or TensorFlow. Proficiency with AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Cursor, Claude Code) to accelerate engineering velocity. Experience with modern development practices, including version control (GitHub), containerization (Docker), and cloud-native deployments (AWS/EKS). Strong understanding of API design, microservices architecture, and standard SDLC workflows. Strong analytical and technical skills to troubleshoot issues, perform rapid iteration and quickly come-up with the possible solutions, Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work cross-functionally and clearly explain complex technical concepts Preferred Qualifications Experience with observability platforms (e.g., Datadog, Grafana, Conviva) and handling high-volume telemetry data. Familiarity with large-scale data platforms and distributed data processing tools (e.g., PySpark, Pandas, Databricks, Snowflake). Knowledge of prompt design, model evaluation, and fine-tuning foundation models (GPT-4, Claude). Experience implementing production-grade systems at scale within a fast-paced, distributed environment. The hiring range for this position in Glendale, CA is $117,500 to $157,500 per year and in New York, NY and Seattle, WA is $123,000 to $165,000 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.

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. This position will be responsible for working across multiple machine learning areas with primary focus on specialization in generative AI applications, including generative mixed media, language models, and other agentic multimodal technologies. Areas of work may include generative video, generative image, generative audio, chatbots, LLM applications, and mixed agentic workflows. Work will additionally include traditional machine learning applications as well, including development of classical ML models to optimize advertisement marketplace operations. Our mission is to advance AI and machine learning capabilities across Ad Platform by delivering scalable, high impact AI/ML and data science solutions that enhance generative advertisement creation and enhancement, as well as supporting efforts in more traditional AI application spaces such as Ad marketplace optimization, forecasting, and related ML and generative AI experimentation. We are seeking a Lead Machine Learning Engineer to join this innovative team. This role offers a unique leadership opportunity for an experienced ML engineer who thrives at the intersection of technical excellence, emerging technology, strategic impact, and cross-functional collaboration, across both generative AI and traditional ML applications. WHAT YOU'LL DO Develop, optimize, and productionize innovative technologies in generative AI (mixed media, video, and agentic LLM applications) as well as in traditional ML modeling applications. Create, evaluate, improve, optimize technologies Drive innovation and apply state of the art AI and machine learning across advertising domains, including inventory forecasting, ad experience, ad pacing, pricing, targeting, and efficient ad delivery. Invent and iterate on novel solutions to complex advertising challenges with rapid prototyping and deployment cycles. Design, build, and scale robust ML systems that power core ad platform capabilities Champion engineering excellence through best practices in code quality, system design, and operational reliability. Mentor and support junior engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and technical growth. WHAT TO BRING Bachelor's in computer science or equivalent experience. Prior experience rigorously developing, researching, and/or productionizing any of the following generative AI modeling or AI-based editing domains: image, video, mixed media, audio, LLMs, or agentic flows. For example: experience with diffusion models, flow models, similar generative techniques, agentic applications, etc. Very strong interest to self-teach via publications and training resources in generative modeling including in generative video and diffusion modeling. Experience creating ML datasets (especially in computer vision or generative AI) or developing rigorous quality evaluation processes or data labeling processes. Must include an appreciation for the importance of rigorous quality evaluation processes. Experience developing language-processing applications via LLMs or agentic flows. Experience in rapid creative prototyping with generative AI is a plus, such as examples of rapid development of creative generative AI prototyping in research labs, hackathons, etc. Minimum 7 years of hands-on experience developing and deploying large-scale machine learning systems. Strong knowledge of AI/ML technologies, mathematics and statistics. Excellent communication, collaboration skills, and a strong teamwork ethic with both technical and non-technical audiences. Strong foundations in algorithms, data structures, and numerical optimization with experience in programming languages such as Python (primary), Java and SQL Familiarity with deep learning tools and frameworks such as TensorFlow, Pytorch, Jax, Hugging libraries etc. Expert knowledge with traditional (tabular) ML modeling and methods. Proven proficiency in deep learning methodologies, fine tuning, and transformer architectures. A proven track record of thriving in a fast-paced, data-driven, and collaborative work environment. Experience working closely with UX and front end designers building production generative AI products. NICE-TO-HAVES MS or PhD (preferred) in computer science or equivalent experience. Experience with multimodal models and embedding techniques. Computer vision or visual content understanding experience. Experience in digital video advertising or digital marketing domain. Diffusion model or generative AI controls research experience. (Otherwise strong interest to learn). Location: Seattle / Santa Monica / Glendale The hiring range for this position in Santa Monica, CA is $171,600 to $230,100 per year and in Seattle is $179,700 to $241,000. 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.

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. As part of Ad Platform Engineering, the programmatic teams build and maintain Disney's programmatic advertising suite of products and services that comprise Disney's Real-time Ad Exchange (DRAX). DRAX is an award-winning, proprietary SSP that enables the configuration of programmatic deals and integrates programmatic demand from multiple third-party sources into the Disney ad server in real time. As a Principal Software Engineer, you will apply your experience, deep technical knowledge of software and systems, and leadership skills to help teams innovate and create scalable, performant, maintainable, loosely coupled, encapsulated, and testable software and 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, and fault-tolerant distributed systems. A perpetual drive to advocate for and contribute to the evolution of technical standards and architectural best practices. A passion for mentoring, learning, and adapting to a very dynamic and fast-paced environment. A proven ability to work with product teams to translate requirements into well-defined technical implementations, as well as the ability to define technical and operational metrics to measure system health. Knowledge of relevant technologies and their potential application within our systems. 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: Own and orchestrate the implementation of innovative and complex projects spanning multiple cross-functional teams and components. Mentor and inspire colleagues in all aspects of enterprise software engineering, including software and system design. Interpret product requirements and collaborate with team leads to break them down into actionable implementation tasks and drive execution. Design, implement, and review code and unit tests. Design robust, scalable, fault tolerant, de-coupled and performant distributed systems. Evaluate code and test implementations to ensure best practices and optimal performance. Improve system observability by implementing comprehensive metrics, monitoring, and alerting solutions. Research, prototype, and recommend innovative solutions to optimize ad serving systems by improving efficiency, maintainability, and feature deployment speed. Define, review, and document software and system architectures, focusing on high-throughput, low-latency microservices. Understanding and use of automated tools (AI) while adhering to company policy. Provide on-call engineering support as needed. Basic Qualifications: BS or MS in Computer Science/Engineering or relevant work experience. 10+ years of software engineering experience. Strong foundation in computer science principles, including data structures and algorithms. Advanced proficiency with Java, such as understanding heap, multi-threading, garbage collection, profiling. 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 related Spring projects Non-relational database technologies e.g. DynamoDB Caching datastores such as Redis, ValKey, or MemCache Data streaming systems such as AWS Kinesis Data Stream and/or Apache Kafka AWS or any other cloud platform Observability tooling (logs, metrics, etc) Modern DevOps tools such as Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes. Preferred Qualifications: Domain knowledge in the ad tech industry Domain knowledge in programmatic advertising The hiring range for this position in Glendale, California is $188,400 to $252,600 per year, Santa Monica, California is $188,400 to $252,600 per year, and in Seattle, Washington is $197,400 to $264,700 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.

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology 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. Product Engineering is a unified team responsible for the engineering of Disney Entertainment & ESPN digital and streaming products and platforms. This includes product engineering, media engineering, quality engineering, and the engineering behind personalization, commerce, lifecycle, and identity. Job Summary: The DEEP & Technology team is seeking a visionary Principal Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) to spearhead quality engineering across our streaming, data and advertising systems. As a trusted engineering leader and technical authority, you will set the strategic direction for automation, quality practices, and test architectures organization-wide. You will partner cross-functionally to align quality strategy with company objectives, lead innovation in automated testing processes, and ensure our systems robustly deliver relevant and reliable products to all viewers. Your decisions and leadership will have a substantial impact on revenue, user experience, and operational efficiency. Ideal candidates are highly proactive, influential, and passionate about transforming quality engineering through cutting-edge technology and thought leadership. Responsibilities: Strategic Quality Leadership Define and drive the vision, strategy, and roadmap for test automation and quality engineering across multiple business units and product lines. Influence organizational decisions regarding test architecture, process improvements, and adoption of modern testing paradigms (shift-left, CI/CD, observability, etc.). Establish and maintain enterprise-wide standards for quality, automation, and operational excellence in collaboration with executive stakeholders. Own the end-to-end quality strategy for large-scale, business-critical projects, including test metrics, release criteria, and automation objectives. Architecture & Technical Authority Lead the architecture of scalable, resilient, and cloud-native test automation solutions that empower teams and improve defect prevention. Make high-impact technical decisions on frameworks, toolsets, and integrations to enable richer and more effective testing. Oversee technical reviews, mentorship, and hands-on guidance in complex areas such as distributed systems, data pipelines, and ad technologies. Partner with Platform Architects and DevOps to ensure seamless integration of quality gates and automated validation throughout deployment pipelines Cross-Functional Influence & Mentorship Serve as a coaching resource to SDETs, engineers, and leadership, regularly conducting technical deep-dives, training, and knowledge-sharing sessions. Build consensus across product teams for standardization of test tools, frameworks, and reusable components. Facilitate root cause analysis for high-severity incidents, drive preventative and corrective actions, and communicate technical findings to senior leadership. Represent DEEP & Technology quality interests within company-wide engineering and business forums. Program Management & Delivery Excellence Lead delivery of multiple concurrent, cross-team testing initiatives in fast-paced Agile environments. Manage test budgets, resource allocation, roadmap goals, and risk mitigation strategies across programs. Ensure rigorous governance over traceability, compliance, and test reporting, supporting company-wide accountability. Continuously identify bottlenecks and drive organization-wide solutions to improve efficiency, coverage, and reliability. Innovation & Continuous Improvement Champion research and adoption of emerging technologies (AI/ML in testing, autonomous testing, advanced observability, etc.) to keep test practices ahead of industry standards. Define and track advanced quality metrics (escape rates, flakiness, system reliability), implementing data-driven improvements. Lead efforts to mature organization's quality posture in performance, security, and reliability engineering. Inspire a culture of innovation, experiment with new tools and practices, and help set the direction for the future of engineering quality. Minimum Qualifications: Minimum of 10 years experience in quality engineering, automation, or software development, with recent leadership responsibilities in large, complex engineering environments Passion around driving best practices in the testing space Knowledge of software engineering practices and agile approaches Strong desire for establishing and improving product quality Proven expertise architecting and scaling test automation for distributed, cloud-native systems Track record of influencing enterprise strategy and leading transformation initiatives Advanced proficiency with Python or modern OO languages; experience with ad-tech or large-scale systems is a plus Willingness to take challenges head on while being part of a team Strong communication, stakeholder management, and mentoring skills Bachelor's degree, preferably in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent work experience) The hiring range for this position in California is $171,600 - $230,100 per year and in New York is $179,700 - $241,000 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.

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. Product Engineering is a unified team responsible for the engineering of Disney Entertainment & ESPN digital and streaming products and platforms. This includes product engineering, media engineering, quality assurance, engineering behind personalization, commerce, lifecycle, and identity. The News ML team is responsible for building robust data pipelines and advanced machine learning platforms that deliver personalized experiences to users across ABC News, Good Morning America, and local news stations. Our services leverage machine learning models to enable real-time content personalization and targeted distribution across web, mobile, and connected TV platforms, ensuring that users receive the most relevant and engaging news content tailored to their interests. Our mission is to drive seamless, resilient, and low-latency personalized content delivery at scale, while continuously advancing our ML infrastructure and recommendation algorithms. As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer, you will play a leading role in shaping the technical direction of the News ML Platform. You will drive infrastructure for scalable learning, inference, and monitoring, conduct in-depth data exploration and analysis, and collaborate across product, data, and engineering teams to power exceptional, personalized guest experiences. Your work will directly support strategic initiatives to help shape the roadmap for algorithmic innovation while ensuring that solutions are scalable, impactful, and aligned with stakeholder needs. Responsibilities Own complex technical initiatives end-to-end, from technical design through production deployment and operational excellence Design and develop infrastructure supporting the full cycle of machine learning, including data pipelines and workflow orchestration, data discovery and quality tools, and feature libraries Drive data and ML-driven solutions for diverse engineering use cases such as recommendation systems, object detection, autogenerated tagging solutions, RAGs Partner with product, editorial, and engineering stakeholders to translate business requirements into robust technical solutions Strategically prioritize initiatives and technical workstreams to deliver the highest-impact and most time-sensitive outcomes, while proactively identifying, communicating, and mitigating risks to ensure successful execution Champion engineering best practices across code quality, testing, CI/CD, observability, and incident response Mentor and coach engineers, fostering a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement Contribute to technical documentation and promote knowledge sharing across teams Qualifications Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Statistics, Math, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience 5+ years of experience building and operating ML engineering systems in production environments Expertise in data science, deep learning algorithms, or statistical methods to solve real-world engineering problems Comfortable operating at all levels of the predictive stack, including data collection, data analysis, feature engineering, batch training and low-latency online serving Experience designing and developing backend microservices for large-scale distributed systems using REST Experience with cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS (Step Functions, Lambda, Glue, SQS, SNS, Personalize) Familiarity with developing and deploying Spark and ML pipelines Hands-on experience with big data technologies such as Databricks, Kinesis, Kafka Proven leadership, coaching, and mentoring skills, with the ability to inspire and empower a team towards achieving business goals Experience with observability tools for metrics, logging, and monitoring such as Datadog Experience working in Agile/Scrum development environments Excellent communication skills and a commitment to collaboration in a fast-paced, guest-focused environment The hiring range for this position in New York, NY is $148,700 - $199,400 per year and in Glendale, CA is $141,900 - $190,300. 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.

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. As part of Ad Platform Engineering, the programmatic teams build and maintain Disney's programmatic advertising suite of products and services that comprise Disney's Real-time Ad Exchange (DRAX). DRAX is an award-winning, proprietary SSP that enables the configuration of programmatic deals and integrates programmatic demand from multiple third-party sources into the Disney ad server in real time. As a Principal Software Engineer, you will apply your experience, deep technical knowledge of software and systems, and leadership skills to help teams innovate and create scalable, performant, maintainable, loosely coupled, encapsulated, and testable software and 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, and fault-tolerant distributed systems. A perpetual drive to advocate for and contribute to the evolution of technical standards and architectural best practices. A passion for mentoring, learning, and adapting to a very dynamic and fast-paced environment. A proven ability to work with product teams to translate requirements into well-defined technical implementations, as well as the ability to define technical and operational metrics to measure system health. Knowledge of relevant technologies and their potential application within our systems. 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: Own and orchestrate the implementation of innovative and complex projects spanning multiple cross-functional teams and components. Mentor and inspire colleagues in all aspects of enterprise software engineering, including software and system design. Interpret product requirements and collaborate with team leads to break them down into actionable implementation tasks and drive execution. Design, implement, and review code and unit tests. Design robust, scalable, fault tolerant, de-coupled and performant distributed systems. Evaluate code and test implementations to ensure best practices and optimal performance. Improve system observability by implementing comprehensive metrics, monitoring, and alerting solutions. Research, prototype, and recommend innovative solutions to optimize ad serving systems by improving efficiency, maintainability, and feature deployment speed. Define, review, and document software and system architectures, focusing on high-throughput, low-latency microservices. Understanding and use of automated tools (AI) while adhering to company policy. Provide on-call engineering support as needed. Basic Qualifications: BS or MS in Computer Science/Engineering or relevant work experience. 10+ years of software engineering experience. Strong foundation in computer science principles, including data structures and algorithms. Advanced proficiency with Java, such as understanding heap, multi-threading, garbage collection, profiling. 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 related Spring projects Non-relational database technologies e.g. DynamoDB Caching datastores such as Redis, ValKey, or MemCache Data streaming systems such as AWS Kinesis Data Stream and/or Apache Kafka AWS or any other cloud platform Observability tooling (logs, metrics, etc) Modern DevOps tools such as Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes. Preferred Qualifications: Domain knowledge in the ad tech industry Domain knowledge in programmatic advertising The hiring range for this position in Glendale, California is $188,400 to $252,600 per year, Santa Monica, California is $188,400 to $252,600 per year, and in Seattle, Washington is $197,400 to $264,700 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.

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology 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 execute groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms and enhance how audiences experience sports, entertainment & news. Content Platforms & Operations is responsible for the development and ongoing advancement of the technical and operational functions driving the worldwide distribution and monetization of Disney's linear networks and theatrical content. This includes Disney's media supply chain and storage, network and theatrical distribution operations, media localization, network transmission and origination, and more. The global team also plays a critical role as the primary collaboration point for Product & Technology with Disney's EMEA, APAC, and LATAM regional business teams. The Content Enhancements team designs, develops, and maintains content automation systems that power and elevate broadcasts across a wide range of sporting events. We are looking for a driven and talented engineer who thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative environment and is eager to contribute to high-impact broadcast technology. As a Senior Software Engineer , you'll be part of a diverse and innovative organization focused on building and maintaining complex, high-performance applications that support our suite of broadcast automation tools. You'll work closely with our partners in production, creative, and operations to deliver scalable, elegant solutions for new features and core platform architecture. Your work will span modern server-side and front-end technologies including JavaScript, Node.js, and React, while leveraging your proficiency in C#, SQL, HTML, and CSS to build seamless, high-quality user experiences. We're looking for someone who takes pride in craftsmanship, values detail, and brings curiosity and enthusiasm for emerging technologies, frameworks, and platforms. Responsibilities: Design, develop, and maintain software systems that support live broadcast content automation Collaborate across disciplines (engineering, design, production, and operations) to deliver reliable, efficient solutions Contribute to architectural discussions and help define long-term technical strategies Balance development speed with maintainability and quality using lean, iterative practices Provide mentorship, technical insight, and code reviews for team members Continuously learn and share new tools and techniques that enhance the team's efficiency and creativity Basic Qualifications: Minimum of 5 years experience in a technical or software development role Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience Strong understanding of object-oriented (OO) software design Proven ability to design, develop, and manage MySQL databases Solid proficiency in C# and/or VB programming languages Experience writing code that consumes RESTful APIs and JSON data Ability to work collaboratively with technology, engineering, operations, production, and creative services teams Excellent communication and organizational skills, with strong attention to detail Serves as a high-level technical resource and "go-to" person for less-experienced engineers Demonstrated success in building solutions of significant scope and complexity that have been successfully deployed to end users Demonstrated ability to research, evaluate, and learn new technologies Driven, self-motivated, and capable of working independently Ability to travel globally, including nights, weekends, and holidays as required Willingness to provide 24/7/365 support for live production environments Experience working with league data feeds and other external data providers Genuine passion for sports and live event production Preferred Qualifications: Experience and understanding of scripting functions and logic, including VizRT scripting, VBScript, and ActionScript Working knowledge of Visual Studio technologies, including C#, VB.NET, and WPF (experience with these is a strong plus) Hands-on experience with web and cloud-based technologies Understanding of the MVVM architectural pattern Experience working with VizRT broadcast graphics systems Familiarity with Ross XPression real-time graphics platform Demonstrated experience or interest in leveraging AI tools and frameworks to enhance software development, automation, or data-driven workflows Knowledge of live event and studio production workflows and environments Strong sports knowledge and the rules surrounding various sports is preferred The hiring range for this position in Bristol, CT is $141,900 to $190,300 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.

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. Product Engineering is a unified team responsible for the engineering of Disney Entertainment & ESPN digital and streaming products and platforms. This includes product engineering, media engineering, quality assurance, engineering behind personalization, commerce, lifecycle, and identity. Our Technology Enablement Engineering teams design, build, and operate cloud-based platforms that power applications across Disney Entertainment & ESPN Product & Technology (DEEP&T). We partner closely with product and engineering teams to create and improve system stability, scalability, and operational excellence through automation, observability, and engineering best practices. The Software Engineer II plays a key role in planning, designing, and implementing software and infrastructure solutions that support highly available and resilient systems. This engineer works on cloud-native platforms, distributed systems, and automation tooling that improves operational efficiency, and developer productivity. In this role, the engineer will collaborate across engineering teams to develop scalable systems, enhance platform capabilities, and drive improvements in system performance, reliability, and deployment workflows. You will: Develop and deliver solutions for problems of moderate scope and complexity, ensuring reliable deployment to production environments. Communicate status, progress, risks, and blockers clearly with team members and stakeholders while maintaining visibility into upcoming work. Troubleshoot software defects, improve existing systems, and contribute new functionality using clean, maintainable, and well-tested code. Evaluate existing systems, standards, and engineering practices to identify opportunities for improvements in reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency. Collaborate with software engineers, platform teams, and technical leaders to design and implement solutions for moderately complex technical challenges. Identify opportunities to improve engineering productivity and operational efficiency through automation, tooling, and responsible use of AI-assisted development technologies. Responsibilities: Write code that impacts business goals, within guidelines and policies. Review code for design, logic, testability, usability, and adherence to standards. Strive for operational excellence and continuous improvement. Develop specifications for assigned components, projects, or fixes, and breaks down projects into prioritized tasks. Build solutions that scale and perform in the cloud. Participate in project proposal, architecture, and design. Implement assigned projects and tasks efficiently and comprehensively. Participate in planning for short, medium, and long term goals. Oversee technical maintenance. Perform troubleshooting for systems that tend to be large and complex. Design, development, documentation, and testing. Apply experience to resolve a variety of issues across a variety of technologies such as software, IaC, networking, code delivery, cloud-native services, security, and others. Identify problems and opportunities and recommend solutions. Serve as a technical resource for less experienced software engineers. Basic Qualifications: Minimum of 3 years of related work experience within the software infrastructure engineering field Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience Well-versed in Software Engineering and Infrastructure Engineering principles, patterns, and best practices. Ability to understand the business domain from both a technical and product viewpoint Minimum of 2 years experience working with AWS Cloud Infrastructure and Resources Proficient in Python and/or other comparable programming language Well-versed with modern infrastructure services and concepts such as containerization (e.g. Docker), distributed systems, Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g. Terraform, CloudFormation), and microservices. Exposure to working with globally distributed teams Experience working within an Agile environment Preferred Qualifications: Experience using modern AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Copilot, Cursor, or similar) to improve code quality, accelerate development, and enhance documentation. Understanding of foundational AI/ML concepts, familiarity with cloud-native AI services such as model hosting, and/or ability to use AI tools to automate cloud operations tasks. The hiring range for this position in New York, NY is $123,000 to $165,000 and in Los Angeles, CA is $117,500 to $157,500 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.

Role Location: This is an on-site role requiring 4 days in-person at designated office location. Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology 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. Job Summary: The Production Platform Foundations team is a horizontal service team providing both tools and guidance across the organization for operations in AWS. We strive to act as a productivity multiplier, providing consulting and operational support to Application teams to help them drive their adoption of AWS services in conjunction with their existing infrastructure. We work closely with those groups to offer a 'cloud-native' perspective on application architecture, infrastructure, and deployment strategies. A Senior Software Engineer on the Cloud Account Management (CAM) team is a security-focused cloud engineer responsible for designing, building, and supporting automation and tooling initiatives that further enable secure, compliant, self-service ways of working for both the team and the developer base. In addition, this role will provide operational and technical guidance to Application Development (DevOps) teams that are utilizing the AWS environment at Disney Streaming. This position will report to the Engineering Manager and will interact with other Software Engineers in the Cloud Account Management (CAM) team What you'll be doing Write automation tools for your team and other internal teams to self-service, deploy, detect, alert, and mitigate in our AWS environments Champion and execute best practices and security standards for operating in the cloud Troubleshoot and implement appropriate IAM permissions for user access and workloads running in AWS Provide guidance and recommendations to development teams on service design and deployments Own initiatives and contribute to future solution designs and planning Be a go-to technical resource on the team, spanning across levels and cross functional teams Monitor and work on inbound issues Qualifications: 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, or equivalent practical experience. Experience building on public cloud, preferably AWS. Experience with deployment and CI/CD tools - Terraform, GitHub Actions, Spinnaker, and Jenkins. Relevant software engineering experience, primarily backend (python, database, building APIs) Hands-on AWS Security/IAM administration and policy-creation experience for many users and workloads Familiarity with Docker and containerization concepts Experience with Unix/Linux systems Exhibit clear, succinct written and verbal communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders. Taking a practical, collaborative approach when working with engineers. Familiarity with operational troubleshooting tools and techniques Nice to have, but not required Experience leveraging AI as a productivity multiplier AWS Certifications Experience supporting DevOps teams in mid-to-large-sized organizations, especially in multitenant environments Familiarity with SSL Certificate management Familiarity with general and AWS-specific networking concepts, including VPC constructs, Firewalling, and DNS The hiring range for this position in Santa Monica, CA and Glendale, CA is $141,900 to $190,300 per year and in New York, NY and Seattle, WA is $148,700 to $199,400 per year and in San Francisco, CA is $155,400 to $208,400. 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.

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology 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. Product Engineering is a unified team responsible for the engineering of Disney Entertainment & ESPN digital and streaming products and platforms. This includes product engineering, media engineering, quality assurance, engineering behind personalization, commerce, lifecycle, and identity. The Observability & Insights group ensures that Disney Streaming's distributed systems are reliable, performant, and transparent. We build the telemetry, dashboards, alerting, insights pipelines, and developer experience tooling that enable engineers across the organization to understand system health and take action quickly. Job Summary: As a Software Engineer II, you will design and build intelligent, AI driven systems that enhance the reliability and performance of Disney's large scale streaming ecosystem. You will develop agentic systems, machine learning models, and real-time pipelines that transform telemetry, logs, and user signals into automated detection, root cause analysis, and proactive insights. In this role, you will contribute to the development of autonomous agents capable of reasoning over complex system behavior, identifying issues in real time, and driving faster detection and resolution across Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN. You will partner closely with engineering, product, and platform teams to embed intelligence directly into operational workflows, improving system resilience and customer experience at scale. You will deliver high quality features end-to-end and contribute to system design and code reviews and begin owning components of production systems within a fast paced, AI native engineering environment. Responsibilities: Design and operate intelligent, production-grade systems that leverage real-time signals and AI-driven detection to improve the health of streaming platforms, critical services, and customer experience Build and scale AI-driven capabilities including agentic AI systems powered by modern foundation models (e.g. Claude Opus/Sonnet, GPT-4) enabling automated reasoning and decisioning, as well as predictive modeling and anomaly detection for real-time system health and reliability Develop end-to-end data and decisioning pipelines that transform telemetry, logs, and user signals into actionable insights, automated detection, and root cause analysis Create and deploy scalable APIs and services that deliver predictive signals, explainability, and insights to engineering teams, operational tools, and product stakeholders Partner cross-functionally to embed intelligence into workflows (incident response, release validation, customer insights), improving speed and reducing operational overhead Drive innovation in observability, reliability, and developer productivity through applied AI and new approaches Basic Qualifications Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience 3+ years of applicable experience in backend development, including building AI-powered or data driven applications and scalable APIs (e.g. FastAPI, Flask) Practical experience in AI/ML engineering, with knowledge in at least one of the following areas: Agentic Workflows: Orchestrating foundation models (GPT-4, Claude) using frameworks like LangChain or LangGraph. Traditional ML: Developing, training, or fine-tuning models using frameworks like PyTorch or TensorFlow. Proficiency with AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Cursor, Claude Code) to accelerate engineering velocity. Experience with modern development practices, including version control (GitHub), containerization (Docker), and cloud-native deployments (AWS/EKS). Strong understanding of API design, microservices architecture, and standard SDLC workflows. Strong analytical and technical skills to troubleshoot issues, perform rapid iteration and quickly come-up with the possible solutions, Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work cross-functionally and clearly explain complex technical concepts Preferred Qualifications Experience with observability platforms (e.g., Datadog, Grafana, Conviva) and handling high-volume telemetry data. Familiarity with large-scale data platforms and distributed data processing tools (e.g., PySpark, Pandas, Databricks, Snowflake). Knowledge of prompt design, model evaluation, and fine-tuning foundation models (GPT-4, Claude). Experience implementing production-grade systems at scale within a fast-paced, distributed environment. The hiring range for this position in Glendale, CA is $117,500 to $157,500 per year and in New York, NY and Seattle, WA is $123,000 to $165,000 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.

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. Product Engineering is a unified team responsible for the engineering of Disney Entertainment & ESPN digital and streaming products and platforms. This includes product engineering, media engineering, quality assurance, engineering behind personalization, commerce, lifecycle, and identity. Our Technology Enablement Engineering teams design, build, and operate cloud-based platforms that power applications across Disney Entertainment & ESPN Product & Technology (DEEP&T). We partner closely with product and engineering teams to create and improve system stability, scalability, and operational excellence through automation, observability, and engineering best practices. The Software Engineer II plays a key role in planning, designing, and implementing software and infrastructure solutions that support highly available and resilient systems. This engineer works on cloud-native platforms, distributed systems, and automation tooling that improves operational efficiency, and developer productivity. In this role, the engineer will collaborate across engineering teams to develop scalable systems, enhance platform capabilities, and drive improvements in system performance, reliability, and deployment workflows. You will: Develop and deliver solutions for problems of moderate scope and complexity, ensuring reliable deployment to production environments. Communicate status, progress, risks, and blockers clearly with team members and stakeholders while maintaining visibility into upcoming work. Troubleshoot software defects, improve existing systems, and contribute new functionality using clean, maintainable, and well-tested code. Evaluate existing systems, standards, and engineering practices to identify opportunities for improvements in reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency. Collaborate with software engineers, platform teams, and technical leaders to design and implement solutions for moderately complex technical challenges. Identify opportunities to improve engineering productivity and operational efficiency through automation, tooling, and responsible use of AI-assisted development technologies. Responsibilities: Write code that impacts business goals, within guidelines and policies. Review code for design, logic, testability, usability, and adherence to standards. Strive for operational excellence and continuous improvement. Develop specifications for assigned components, projects, or fixes, and breaks down projects into prioritized tasks. Build solutions that scale and perform in the cloud. Participate in project proposal, architecture, and design. Implement assigned projects and tasks efficiently and comprehensively. Participate in planning for short, medium, and long term goals. Oversee technical maintenance. Perform troubleshooting for systems that tend to be large and complex. Design, development, documentation, and testing. Apply experience to resolve a variety of issues across a variety of technologies such as software, IaC, networking, code delivery, cloud-native services, security, and others. Identify problems and opportunities and recommend solutions. Serve as a technical resource for less experienced software engineers. Basic Qualifications: Minimum of 3 years of related work experience within the software infrastructure engineering field Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience Well-versed in Software Engineering and Infrastructure Engineering principles, patterns, and best practices. Ability to understand the business domain from both a technical and product viewpoint Minimum of 2 years experience working with AWS Cloud Infrastructure and Resources Proficient in Python and/or other comparable programming language Well-versed with modern infrastructure services and concepts such as containerization (e.g. Docker), distributed systems, Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g. Terraform, CloudFormation), and microservices. Exposure to working with globally distributed teams Experience working within an Agile environment Preferred Qualifications: Experience using modern AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Copilot, Cursor, or similar) to improve code quality, accelerate development, and enhance documentation. Understanding of foundational AI/ML concepts, familiarity with cloud-native AI services such as model hosting, and/or ability to use AI tools to automate cloud operations tasks. The hiring range for this position in New York, NY is $123,000 to $165,000 and in Los Angeles, CA is $117,500 to $157,500 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.

Principal Software Engineer, Media Architecture Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology 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: 1.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. 2.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. 3.Innovation: We develop and implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms, and solve complex and distinctive technical problems. Job Summary: We are redefining how streaming media is delivered, experienced, and scaled across a global ecosystem. From live and linear streaming to VOD workflows, advertising integrations, metadata platforms, and playback clients, our mission is to build a cohesive, high-performing media platform that powers world-class viewer experiences. We are seeking a Principal Software Architect to operate at the intersection of strategy and execution, shaping end-to-end solutions across the Media Engineering ecosystem. This role is not confined to a single domain. You will architect systems that span ingest, processing, orchestration, distribution, and playback across platforms such as Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN. This is a hands-on architecture role for a technical leader who can define vision, influence at scale, and dive deep into code and design when needed. What You'll Do Architecture & Technical Strategy Define and drive end-to-end solution architecture across Live, Linear, and VOD streaming workflows. Establish architectural patterns that unify media ingest, processing, metadata, ads, distribution, and playback ecosystems. Lead cross-domain design for integrations with Ad platforms, metadata services, rights systems, and client applications. Contribute to long-term technical strategy, ensuring scalability, resiliency, and cost efficiency across the media supply chain. Cross-Functional Leadership Partner with Engineering, Product, Program Management, and stakeholders teams to deliver cohesive platform solutions. Influence technical direction across multiple teams and organizations without direct authority. Lead architecture reviews, drive alignment, and resolve complex cross-system challenges. System Design & Implementation Design and document high-scale, distributed systems supporting millions of concurrent streams and global content distribution. Contribute to implementation where necessary, including prototyping, coding, and validating architectural decisions. Author clear architectural artifacts including solution designs, system diagrams, and technical proposals. Operational Excellence Champion best practices in observability, reliability, performance optimization, and cost management. Guide teams in building resilient systems with strong SLAs/SLOs. Use metrics and data to continuously improve system performance and user experience. Innovation & Continuous Improvement Challenge existing architectures and introduce modern approaches to evolving platform capabilities. Stay ahead of industry trends in streaming technologies, ad tech, and media workflows. Drive iterative improvements across systems, workflows, and developer experience. Basic Qualifications 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with significant time in architecture and distributed systems design. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience Proven experience designing and scaling high-throughput, low-latency systems in a cloud environment. Strong proficiency in one or more languages such as Java, Python, or similar. Deep understanding of microservices architecture, event-driven systems, and API design. Experience with AWS or similar cloud platforms, including services such as S3, DynamoDB, Kinesis, SNS/SQS, or Kafka. Strong foundation in data modeling, system design, and performance optimization. Ability to write production-quality code and contribute hands-on when needed. Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams. Preferred Qualifications Experience with media streaming systems, including Live, Linear, and VOD workflows. Knowledge of video delivery protocols (HLS, DASH), encoding/transcoding pipelines, and CDN distribution. Experience with media player and client integrations for video playback Familiarity with Ad Tech ecosystems, including SSAI, and ad decisioning systems. Experience working with player/client technologies across web, mobile, and connected devices. Exposure to machine learning applications in media workflows (e.g., content enrichment, personalization). Prior experience operating in a large-scale streaming platform environment. What Sets You Apart You think in systems, not silos, and can connect architecture across domains. You balance vision with execution, capable of both defining strategy and delivering outcomes. You are a force multiplier, elevating teams through influence, clarity, and technical leadership. You are comfortable operating in ambiguity and driving alignment across complex organizations. Product Engineering Product Engineering is a unified team responsible for the engineering of Disney Entertainment & ESPN digital and streaming products and platforms. This includes product engineering, media engineering, quality assurance, engineering behind personalization, commerce, lifecycle, and identity. The hiring range for this position in NY, NY is $197,400 to $264,700 per year and in Santa Monica, CA is $188,400 to $252,600 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.

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology 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. Product Engineering is a unified team responsible for the engineering of Disney Entertainment & ESPN digital and streaming products and platforms. This includes product engineering, media engineering, quality assurance, engineering behind personalization, commerce, lifecycle, and identity. The Observability & Insights group ensures that Disney Streaming's distributed systems are reliable, performant, and transparent. We build the telemetry, dashboards, alerting, insights pipelines, and developer experience tooling that enable engineers across the organization to understand system health and take action quickly. Job Summary: As a Software Engineer II, you will design and build intelligent, AI driven systems that enhance the reliability and performance of Disney's large scale streaming ecosystem. You will develop agentic systems, machine learning models, and real-time pipelines that transform telemetry, logs, and user signals into automated detection, root cause analysis, and proactive insights. In this role, you will contribute to the development of autonomous agents capable of reasoning over complex system behavior, identifying issues in real time, and driving faster detection and resolution across Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN. You will partner closely with engineering, product, and platform teams to embed intelligence directly into operational workflows, improving system resilience and customer experience at scale. You will deliver high quality features end-to-end and contribute to system design and code reviews and begin owning components of production systems within a fast paced, AI native engineering environment. Responsibilities: Design and operate intelligent, production-grade systems that leverage real-time signals and AI-driven detection to improve the health of streaming platforms, critical services, and customer experience Build and scale AI-driven capabilities including agentic AI systems powered by modern foundation models (e.g. Claude Opus/Sonnet, GPT-4) enabling automated reasoning and decisioning, as well as predictive modeling and anomaly detection for real-time system health and reliability Develop end-to-end data and decisioning pipelines that transform telemetry, logs, and user signals into actionable insights, automated detection, and root cause analysis Create and deploy scalable APIs and services that deliver predictive signals, explainability, and insights to engineering teams, operational tools, and product stakeholders Partner cross-functionally to embed intelligence into workflows (incident response, release validation, customer insights), improving speed and reducing operational overhead Drive innovation in observability, reliability, and developer productivity through applied AI and new approaches Basic Qualifications Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience 3+ years of applicable experience in backend development, including building AI-powered or data driven applications and scalable APIs (e.g. FastAPI, Flask) Practical experience in AI/ML engineering, with knowledge in at least one of the following areas: Agentic Workflows: Orchestrating foundation models (GPT-4, Claude) using frameworks like LangChain or LangGraph. Traditional ML: Developing, training, or fine-tuning models using frameworks like PyTorch or TensorFlow. Proficiency with AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Cursor, Claude Code) to accelerate engineering velocity. Experience with modern development practices, including version control (GitHub), containerization (Docker), and cloud-native deployments (AWS/EKS). Strong understanding of API design, microservices architecture, and standard SDLC workflows. Strong analytical and technical skills to troubleshoot issues, perform rapid iteration and quickly come-up with the possible solutions, Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work cross-functionally and clearly explain complex technical concepts Preferred Qualifications Experience with observability platforms (e.g., Datadog, Grafana, Conviva) and handling high-volume telemetry data. Familiarity with large-scale data platforms and distributed data processing tools (e.g., PySpark, Pandas, Databricks, Snowflake). Knowledge of prompt design, model evaluation, and fine-tuning foundation models (GPT-4, Claude). Experience implementing production-grade systems at scale within a fast-paced, distributed environment. The hiring range for this position in Glendale, CA is $117,500 to $157,500 per year and in New York, NY and Seattle, WA is $123,000 to $165,000 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.

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology 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. Job Summary: We're hiring a Senior AI Engineer to build the AI core capabilities and tooling that accelerate teams across Ad Technology. You will create shared agents, initializers, registries, and reusable services and web applications that make it fast, safe, and cost-effective for engineering squads to adopt AI. Your work will emphasize common design principles, guardrails, governance, observability, and evaluation, so teams can deliver high-quality AI solutions quickly-without reinventing the basics. This role blends backend engineering, LLM orchestration, and developer enablement. You'll design APIs, SDKs, reusable agents, and web-based solutions that standardize adoption, define patterns for multi-turn interactions, and provide evaluation/traceability so teams can confidently scale AI across Disney Ad Tech. Responsibilities and Duties of the Role: AI Core Design & Principles Define and implement shared design patterns for agents and services, including context management, retrieval, safety, and evaluation. Establish reusable blueprints that standardize how AI solutions are built across Ad Tech. Reusable Agents & Tools Build production-ready agents, initializers, and libraries for common use cases (summarization, troubleshooting, semantic extraction). Develop high-quality APIs and SDKs that simplify adoption of AI capabilities by other engineering teams. Shared Services & Web Applications Deliver core services for retrieval, memory, and orchestration, integrated with enterprise and consumer facing systems. Create internal webapps and dashboards that expose AI capabilities, evaluation metrics, and adoption accelerators. Safety, Governance & Observability Embed guardrails, compliance checks, and prompt safety into all shared components. Implement model evaluation and observability frameworks for quality, reliability, and cost monitoring at scale. Basic Qualifications 5+ years of backend or applied AI/ML engineering with a track record of building production-grade systems. Proficiency in Python (libraries, testing, packaging) and building scalable APIs or SDKs. Hands-on experience with LLM APIs (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic, Claude) and frameworks such as LangChain or LangGraph. Experience integrating with enterprise AI services such as AWS Bedrock or Azure AI Foundry, including model invocation, routing, and governance integration. Experience developing reusable agents, libraries, or internal tooling adopted by multiple teams. Knowledge of guardrails and evaluation techniques for LLMs, including prompt safety, output validation, and quality regression testing. Strong collaboration and communication skills; able to work across infra, data, security, and product teams. Bedrock or AI Foundry Preferred Qualifications Experience building AI enablement tooling (registries, agent initializers, internal frameworks) for enterprise use. Familiarity with observability for AI systems: tracing, latency and cost dashboards, drift detection. Knowledge of AI gateway patterns (e.g., routing, usage throttling, model fallback, quota enforcement). Exposure to multi-agent orchestration, simulation frameworks, or synthetic data for testing/eval. Understanding of enterprise governance: security, compliance, audit, and policy enforcement in AI systems. Previous experience in a developer enablement role (platform engineering, frameworks, SDKs) where reusable components accelerated adoption across large organizations. Required Education Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field (Master's preferred), or equivalent experience. The hiring range for this position in Los Angeles, California is $141,900 to 190,300 per year, Seattle, WA is $148,700 to $199,400, and San Francisco, CA is $155,400 to $208,400 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.

Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology On any given day at Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology, we're reimagining ways to create magical viewing experiences for the world's most beloved stories while also transforming Disney's media business for the future. Whether that's evolving our streaming and digital products in new and immersive ways, powering worldwide advertising and distribution to maximize flexibility and efficiency, or delivering Disney's unmatched entertainment and sports content, every day is a moment to make a difference to partners and to hundreds of millions of people around the world. A few reasons why we think you'd love working for Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology Building the future of Disney's media business: DE&E Technologists are designing and building the infrastructure that will power Disney's media, advertising, and distribution businesses for years to come. Reach & Scale: The products and platforms this group builds and operates delight millions of consumers every minute of every day - from Disney+ and Hulu, to ABC News and Entertainment, to ESPN and ESPN+, and much more. Innovation: We develop and execute groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms and enhance how audiences experience sports, entertainment & news. Job Summary: The team responsible for building world-class news experiences for ABC News is seeking a Software Engineer. This is a great opportunity to work on a leading news product at ABC News on its mission to inform and inspire. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality, innovative features and enhancements to our users. Why you want to work with us: Build great News experiences with a world-class team of software engineers. Work on a cutting-edge and evolving technology stack. Own substantial features shipped to millions of users. Influence the innovation of high-profile products in the digital news landscape. Join an inclusive culture that incorporates diverse perspectives and supports individual needs. Responsibilities and Duties of the Role: Development of feature-rich native Android and AndroidTV applications. Identify areas for growth within the team processes and develop new systems for collaboration. Write clear, well-tested, performant code. Work with other developers to create sustainable, well-architected solutions that are built to last. Manage production issues and solve novel problems. Support peers through code review and pair programming. Create opportunities to learn and improve the codebase. Required Education, Experience/Skills/Training: 3+ years of relevant software engineering experience Deep understanding of Android app architecture patterns (MVVM, MVI, etc.) and design principles. Experience integrating with backend systems , web services, and third-party software Hold high standards of quality for both the codebases you contribute to and the applications you build. A growth mindset towards learning and a desire to give and receive feedback. Experience composing and presenting thoughtful and implementable solutions to a variety of stakeholders (technical and non-technical) Required Education Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field. The hiring range for this position in New York, NY is $123,000 - $165,000 per year and Glendale, CA is $117,500 - $157,500 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.

Role Location: This is an on-site role requiring 4 days in-person at designated office location. Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology 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. Product Engineering Product Engineering is a unified team responsible for the engineering of Disney Entertainment & ESPN digital and streaming products and platforms. This includes product engineering, media engineering, quality assurance, engineering behind personalization, commerce, lifecycle, and identity. Job Summary: We are seeking a Lead Software Engineer to help build, enhance, and scale our cloud based messaging and integration platforms. In this role, you will design, develop, and support event streaming solutions at scale. You will also build and maintain custom microservices based applications that provide platform administration, operational tooling, and integrations with enterprise products and third party systems. Beyond hands-on development, you will serve as a key technical leader-setting architectural direction, mentoring engineers, conducting code reviews, and championing best practices in software development, cost efficient architecture, and maintainable design. This role offers the opportunity to shape core platform strategy, lead complex distributed systems engineering, and collaborate across the organization to deliver high quality, reliable, and scalable products. Responsibilities and Duties of the Role: Build, enhance, and support highly scalable, reliable, and cost optimized cloud based event streaming and integration platforms. Use Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and CI/CD pipelines to deploy and manage cloud resources. Enhance and support Spring Boot/Java microservices based applications for administration and operation of messaging platform. Design, develop and support integration services connecting enterprise products and third party systems. Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and conduct code reviews. Collaborate with cross functional teams to deliver high impact solutions. Ensure performance, reliability, and observability across the platforms. Champion engineering excellence in areas such as IaC, microservices design, price-performance optimization, and observability. Continuously improve platform automation, monitoring, and self service capabilities. Required Education, Experience/Skills/Training: Basic Qualifications 7+ years of experience in Software Engineering with a strong focus on Java, Infrastructure as Code Extensive hands-on experience designing and supporting cloud solutions in AWS, including container orchestration using Amazon EKS Extensive "Infrastructure as Code" experience, with advanced proficiency in Terraform for provisioning and automating cloud resources Extensive hands-on experience in administrating, deploying, and optimizing messaging platform, especially Apache Kafka Proficient in Spring Boot / Java development, with a strong focus on microservices architecture. Strong problem-solving skills with a proactive approach to identifying and resolving issues. Ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions. Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with experience working across teams. Comfortable working in a geographically distributed team. Preferred Qualifications Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems preferred Familiarity with Amazon Q or similar generative AI assistant for cloud development, troubleshooting, and code generation. Familiarity with Azure and GCP cloud services, including compute, networking, IAM, and container orchestration. Familiarity with multi region, high availability, or disaster recovery architectures. Required Education Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience The hiring range for this position in CT is $155,700 - $208,700 per year and in NY is $159,500 - $213,900 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.

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. Job Summary: Disney Media Systems Engineers have a clear charter: to transform the capability and flexibility of how Disney acquires, produces, and distributes content worldwide, all while ensuring the highest levels of quality, efficiency, and resiliency. Disney Media Systems Engineers often find themselves at the crossroads between hardware and software-based technology and must possess a comprehensive theoretical and practical understanding of the technology that powers the generation, monetization, and distribution of all forms of consumer- facing linear and digital video/audio content. Responsibility includes numerous systems such as Playout Technology, Studios, Production Control Rooms, Remote Production, Post-Production, Contribution/Distribution Systems, Networking, Cloud Compute, Production Software and Virtual Environment and more. The Sr. Media Systems Engineer acts as a technical leader and is responsible for the design and implementation working closely with management and Executive Leadership to make recommendations and advance Disney's technical posture. The Media Systems Engineer will work with vendors and industry trade organizations to define and evolve industry standards, solutions that impact our business. The Sr. Media Systems Engineer will lead and own all aspects of the design and build of Disney's most impactful projects and will leverage their experience to create documentation, procedures, and standards that drive all our technological development. Responsibilities Responsible and play lead role for technical implementation of traditional broadcast production systems and cloud -based infrastructure that support content acquisition, production, encoding, decoding, and content distribution across multiple DE&E Technology networks (linear, digital, and streaming platforms). Take lead role on projects to modernize our legacy media production infrastructure systems to make way for advancements such as SMPTE ST 2110, 4K, UHD HDR, JPEGxs, NDI, ProRes Raw, H.265, AV1, including multi resolution support across broadcast facilities (720p/1080/4K/UHD/HDR), metadata conversion, audio mapping, system outages, microservices architecture tunning and related technical problems. Take lead role and coordinate the construction of facilities, upgrades and the installation of equipment including core routing, intercom, playout, distribution systems, non-linear edit systems, graphics, video servers, storage solutions, file acquisition, file transcode, file transfer, media asset management and automation systems. Collaborate closely with installation engineers, equipment manufacturers, vendors, technical operations staff, and others involved in the projects. Collaborate closely with DE&ET and operations' management to assess facility needs. Develops project plans, schedules, and capital planning, forecasting and estimations. Collaborates closely with equipment manufacturers and vendors to understand the range of equipment that might be relevant to support broadcasting facilities and operations. Basic Qualifications Minimum of 5 years of broadcast engineering experience Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Engineering or Computer Science, or comparable field of study and/or equivalent work experience Strong understanding of baseband/IP video, audio and digital compression, transport systems, audio/video encoding/transcoding techniques and formats. Knowledge of file transfer acceleration technologies and techniques. Preferred Qualifications Proficiency in AutoCAD Working knowledge of DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP, HTTP, UDP, SSL, and SNMP. Excellent communication and organizational skills Proficiency in at least one of the following languages: Perl, Python, Ruby, Shell, C or C++. Familiar with SMPTE standards for broadcast television and video production/streaming environments with a current certification such as not limited to ST 292M, ST 424M, ST 2110, ST 2059, IEE1588, ST 2022-7, SCTE-104, etc. Knowledge and experience with on-prem and cloud-based storage and compute infrastructure platforms and current technological offerings. File-based workflows like enterprise Media Asset Management systems (Cloud-based Cloud Compute or Local Network-based) including storage, compute, encode and distribution. Knowledge and experience with compression techniques such as MPEG2/4, HEVC, JPEG 2000, and JPEG XS. Knowledge and experience with major media systems and the vendors that supply them in areas such as signal routing infrastructure, intercom, playout, asset management systems, file-based workflows, media acquisition, transcoding/encoding, graphics, and NAS/SAN technologies. The hiring range for this position in Bristol, CT is $117,500 to $157,500 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.

Role Location: This is an on-site role requiring 4 days in-person at designated office location. Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology 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. Product Engineering is a unified team responsible for the engineering of Disney Entertainment & ESPN digital and streaming products and platforms. This includes product engineering, media engineering, quality assurance, engineering behind personalization, commerce, lifecycle, and identity. The individual in this position will join the Data Stores team in an exciting and fast-paced environment where they will help build and maintain highly available relational database systems operating across multiple cloud and on-premise environments. These databases support many of the systems powering DEEP&T's digital media supply chain and consumer facing products. Job Summary: Join DEEP&T as a Senior Reliability Engineer, where you will analyze, design, program, debug, and modify software enhancements and new products for use in local, networked, cloud-based, or Internet-related computer programs. This role delivers large or highly complex software programs and systems that are critical to the organization's technology platforms and commercial applications. By leveraging in-depth knowledge of current programming languages and technologies, the Senior Reliability Engineer will write code, complete programming tasks, and perform testing and debugging of applications. The individual will interact with users to define system requirements and necessary modifications, conceive and implement software components, fixes, enhancements, and new systems. Their work directly impacts the organization by driving improvements in product quality, operational efficiency, and technical innovation, influencing future projects and technical direction We're looking for an individual who can apply software engineering principles to database engineering and administration to build processes and automation to help deliver infrastructure faster, safer, more consistently, and with the right level of observability required to operate at scale. Responsibilities and Duties of the Role: Responsible for building, deploying, and ensuring all DEEP&T database infrastructure is available 24/7/365. Leverage software development and automation to design, modernize, and deliver database infrastructure. Participates in setting the architectural direction for database platforms and projects. Manage multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced, deadline-oriented environment. Analyze, design, and deploy fault-tolerant, distributed, and highly available database infrastructure. Proactively plan and implement infrastructure changes through capacity forecasting, software release cycles, and right sizing. Provide database expertise through performance tuning, troubleshooting and administration. Develop, enhance, and adhere to engineering and administration standards. Develop automation and tooling to increase operational efficiency while ensuring system reliability and security. Build infrastructure and systems for scalability, resiliency, availability, and recovery though infrastructure as code and configuration management. Provide relevant insights of data store infrastructure through metrics, monitoring, and alerting. Maintain thorough and well-written documentation. Participate in live event support and on-call rotation. May provide oversight and direction to junior team members. Builds relationships with engineering teams and leads. Required Education, Experience/Skills/Training: Basic Experience Bachelor's degree, preferably in computer science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience). 5+ years of related work experience with Microsoft SQL Server, Amazon RDS for SQL Server, Azure SQL, and Azure SQL MI. Fundamental understanding of Microsoft SQL Server database internals. Experience working in Agile software development. Experience with source control management tools (Git, GitLab, GitHub). Intermediate to advanced level of expertise in one or more programming languages such as Python, Java, or Go. General understanding and experience with Windows operating system, network, and containers. Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Experience designing and deploying fault-tolerant, distributed, and highly available database infrastructure. Experience in database availability monitoring and status reporting using native monitoring tools. Well-versed in SQL Server backup, restore, and recovery strategies. Experience keeping a large environment compliant by deploying SQL Server patches and upgrades. Experience with disaster recovery planning and implementation. Carries out assignments with little coaching or guidance from others. Preferred Experience Experience operating within a database reliability engineering (DRE) and/or systems reliability engineering (SRE) role. Experience running, deploying, and maintaining production systems in Azure and Amazon Web Services. Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation). Experience building a proper path to production leveraging multiple lifecycles, testing, integration, and CI/CD pipelines. Experience with the configuration and implementation of SQL Server Always On availability groups. Experience with configuration management (Ansible, Chef). Comfortable collaborating with cross-functional teams providing guidance in SQL Server best practices. Experience with proactively identifying problems/areas of improvement and designing creative solutions to successfully remediate issues. The hiring range for this position in Bristol, CT is $141,900 to $190,300 and in New York is 148,700 to $199,400$ 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.

Role Location: This is an on-site role requiring 4 days in-person at designated office location. Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology 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. Product Engineering is a unified team responsible for the engineering of Disney Entertainment & ESPN digital and streaming products and platforms. This includes product engineering, media engineering, quality assurance, engineering behind personalization, commerce, lifecycle, and identity. The individual in this position will join the Data Stores team in an exciting and fast-paced environment where they will help build and maintain highly available relational database systems operating across multiple cloud and on-premise environments. These databases support many of the systems powering DEEP&T's digital media supply chain and consumer facing products. Job Summary: Join DEEP&T as a Senior Reliability Engineer, where you will analyze, design, program, debug, and modify software enhancements and new products for use in local, networked, cloud-based, or Internet-related computer programs. This role delivers large or highly complex software programs and systems that are critical to the organization's technology platforms and commercial applications. By leveraging in-depth knowledge of current programming languages and technologies, the Senior Reliability Engineer will write code, complete programming tasks, and perform testing and debugging of applications. The individual will interact with users to define system requirements and necessary modifications, conceive and implement software components, fixes, enhancements, and new systems. Their work directly impacts the organization by driving improvements in product quality, operational efficiency, and technical innovation, influencing future projects and technical direction We're looking for an individual who can apply software engineering principles to database engineering and administration to build processes and automation to help deliver infrastructure faster, safer, more consistently, and with the right level of observability required to operate at scale. Responsibilities and Duties of the Role: Responsible for building, deploying, and ensuring all DEEP&T database infrastructure is available 24/7/365. Leverage software development and automation to design, modernize, and deliver database infrastructure. Participates in setting the architectural direction for database platforms and projects. Manage multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced, deadline-oriented environment. Analyze, design, and deploy fault-tolerant, distributed, and highly available database infrastructure. Proactively plan and implement infrastructure changes through capacity forecasting, software release cycles, and right sizing. Provide database expertise through performance tuning, troubleshooting and administration. Develop, enhance, and adhere to engineering and administration standards. Develop automation and tooling to increase operational efficiency while ensuring system reliability and security. Build infrastructure and systems for scalability, resiliency, availability, and recovery though infrastructure as code and configuration management. Provide relevant insights of data store infrastructure through metrics, monitoring, and alerting. Maintain thorough and well-written documentation. Participate in live event support and on-call rotation. May provide oversight and direction to junior team members. Builds relationships with engineering teams and leads. Required Education, Experience/Skills/Training: Basic Experience Bachelor's degree, preferably in computer science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience). 5+ years of related work experience with Microsoft SQL Server, Amazon RDS for SQL Server, Azure SQL, and Azure SQL MI. Fundamental understanding of Microsoft SQL Server database internals. Experience working in Agile software development. Experience with source control management tools (Git, GitLab, GitHub). Intermediate to advanced level of expertise in one or more programming languages such as Python, Java, or Go. General understanding and experience with Windows operating system, network, and containers. Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Experience designing and deploying fault-tolerant, distributed, and highly available database infrastructure. Experience in database availability monitoring and status reporting using native monitoring tools. Well-versed in SQL Server backup, restore, and recovery strategies. Experience keeping a large environment compliant by deploying SQL Server patches and upgrades. Experience with disaster recovery planning and implementation. Carries out assignments with little coaching or guidance from others. Preferred Experience Experience operating within a database reliability engineering (DRE) and/or systems reliability engineering (SRE) role. Experience running, deploying, and maintaining production systems in Azure and Amazon Web Services. Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation). Experience building a proper path to production leveraging multiple lifecycles, testing, integration, and CI/CD pipelines. Experience with the configuration and implementation of SQL Server Always On availability groups. Experience with configuration management (Ansible, Chef). Comfortable collaborating with cross-functional teams providing guidance in SQL Server best practices. Experience with proactively identifying problems/areas of improvement and designing creative solutions to successfully remediate issues. The hiring range for this position in Bristol, CT is $141,900 to $190,300 and in New York is 148,700 to $199,400$ 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.

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. Product Engineering is a unified team responsible for the engineering of Disney Entertainment & ESPN digital and streaming products and platforms. This includes product engineering, media engineering, quality assurance, engineering behind personalization, commerce, lifecycle, and identity. Job Summary: As a Senior Software Engineer on the Build Tooling Infrastructure team at Disney Entertainment & ESPN Product & Technology (DEEPT), you will design and develop custom tools and maintain mission-critical infrastructure that enables application teams to deliver software quickly and reliably. Our team manages all aspects of CI tooling for DEET, including version control, CI servers, artifact storage, and cross-environment secrets management. We're seeking a mid-level engineer with a solid foundation in CI/CD processes and tools and a strong desire to grow and learn. Responsibilities: Collaborate with a team of engineers in a shared development process Build and maintain pipeline libraries that abstract build, release, and deployment events for use across multiple development organizations Partner with application development teams to identify needs and implement CI/CD best practices Support critical deployment systems used organization-wide Participate in code reviews by providing constructive feedback on pull requests Join the on-call rotation to support systems and services during production incidents Author technical proposals and contribute to root cause analyses Basic Qualifications: 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including at least 3 years focused on CI/CD or DevOps infrastructure Extensive hands-on experience administering Jenkins, Vault, Github, etc. and developing complex CI/CD pipelines Proficiency in writing custom build files using Gradle and/or sbt Strong understanding of Docker and familiarity with container orchestration platforms such as Amazon ECS or Kubernetes Solid programming experience in Python, Groovy, or Java Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex systems and resolve issues efficiently Hands-on experience with AWS infrastructure provisioning using CloudFormation Strong collaboration skills, including experience working effectively with distributed teams Excellent written and verbal communication skills Thorough understanding of source control concepts and practical experience with Git Proven ability to proactively identify and implement improvements in software and tooling BA/BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent technical experience Preferred Qualifications: Experience with application performance monitoring tools such as New Relic or Datadog Programming experience with Java or Go Working knowledge of GitOps principles and workflows The hiring range for this position in Santa Monica, CA and Glendale, CA is $141,900 to $190,300 per year and in New York, NY and Seattle, WA is $148,700 to $199,400 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.