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Description: Transform the Way We Work Are you the type of developer who enjoys solving real business problems, not just writing code? We are looking for a practical, product-minded Business Systems Developer to help us leverage technology, automation, data, and artificial intelligence to improve how our business operates and how our customers experience working with us. This is not a traditional software development role. You will work directly with teams across the organization to understand workflows, identify opportunities for improvement, and build useful software tools that make our company faster, smarter, and easier to do business with. This is a high-impact opportunity for someone who wants to help shape the future of a growing organization through thoughtful application of modern technology. What You'll Do Partner with leaders and employees across departments to understand how work gets done and identify opportunities for improvement. Attack specific business process improvement opportunities identified by senior leadership. Analyze existing workflows and recommend technology-driven solutions that increase efficiency, accuracy, and scalability. Build internal applications, dashboards, integrations, and workflow automations that reduce manual effort and improve visibility. Improve the flow of data between systems and help establish more reliable business processes. Develop customer-facing and customer-supporting tools that enhance speed, communication, and overall customer experience. Utilize software and AI solutions to support customer communications, document processing, knowledge management, reporting, task routing, and decision support. Evaluate emerging technologies and AI tools with a focus on practical application, measurable business value, reliability, and responsible use. Collaborate with technical and non-technical colleagues to ensure solutions meet business needs and drive adoption. Continuously seek opportunities to modernize and improve the organization's technology capabilities. What We're Looking For Experience building software solutions used by internal teams and/or customers. Strong ability to understand business processes and translate operational challenges into practical software solutions. Experience developing web applications, integrations, APIs, databases, and cloud-based solutions. Experience with automation platforms and modern development tools. Familiarity with artificial intelligence technologies and their practical business applications. Excellent communication skills with the ability to work effectively across all levels of the organization. A problem-solving mindset and a bias toward delivering useful, maintainable solutions. Ability to balance technical excellence with business priorities and real-world constraints. Preferred Qualifications Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or related field, or equivalent practical experience. Experience developing and supporting cloud-based applications, platforms, and services. Experience with APIs, SQL databases, system integrations, and business applications. Experience implementing automation, workflow, or AI-powered solutions. Experience working in manufacturing, operations, engineering, or project-based environments is a plus. Why This Role Matters This position will play a key role in helping us modernize how we operate. The solutions you develop will directly impact employee productivity, operational efficiency, data quality, decision-making, and customer experience. If you're excited about solving meaningful business challenges with technology and want to see the direct impact of your work, we'd love to hear from you. Get a glimpse of life at Takeform: Find your future with us. Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer Requirements: Compensation details: 00 Yearly Salary PIac965ea5edc3-0343

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. Media Engineering builds the software and systems that prepare media content and metadata for the Disney Streaming platform - providing the best possible playback experience to our viewers. Media Engineering handles audio, video, and metadata content from ingest through publish - for normalization, processing, and packaging - supporting operator tools and automation for a scalable workflow. We build logic across players and back-end services to measure, control, and optimize playback across our stack. Our team is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help us deliver excellent streaming experiences for Hulu, Disney+ and ESPN+ as a developer of our web-based JavaScript player. Our team is responsible for playback across many devices including browsers, televisions, gaming consoles, and set-top boxes. You will have the opportunity to lead in the design and implementation of our cross-platform JavaScript player that runs Disney+, Hulu and ESPN on these devices. We're looking for an experienced engineer who has video player and cross platform development experience. Excellent fluency in JavaScript and web development is required. You should have a passion for coding and debugging hard problems, and an eagerness to help us deliver seamless video to our subscribers. Being a Senior engineer, you will get to own large features, lead the technical direction of our work, and mentor and provide technical expertise to other engineers. You will work closely with other technical teams in the application layer and backend video services to deliver features. Responsibilities Develop and maintain our JavaScript player that drives our streaming experience Optimize our player to perform well for resource constrained platforms Create and review architecture and technical designs Maintain a strong understanding of our code to identify, research and address issues Collaborate with application development teams, services engineering teams and product management to help understand and explain device limitations and requirements Lead in strategies to ensure the quality and stability of our deployments, including testing strategies and telemetry approaches Develop our project's build system and continuous integration system as needed Provide technical expertise or mentoring to developers on our team Drive high development standards Basic Qualifications 5+ years of full software development lifecycle experience Highly fluent in JavaScript and web technologies Experience developing for web browsers & other web-based client devices Experience in Streaming technologies, such as: HLS (preferred) or DASH DRM technologies like PlayReady or Widevine Adaptive Bitrate Streaming Algorithms Caption and subtitle formats such as CEA-608 / 708 Codecs AVC, HEVC, AAC, EAC3 Experience developing and optimizing high-performance client-side media applications Experience using build runners / compilation tools for multi-platform projects Strong individual contributor with a drive to learn and patience to teach others Great communication and collaboration skills and a strong teamwork ethic Experience using AI-assisted development tools effectively BS or BA in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field or equivalent experience Preferred Qualifications Experience developing for living room devices, e.g. Samsung, LG, Hisense, Vizio. Experience developing for gaming consoles (e.g. Playstation, Switch), Android devices (e.g.FireTV), or similar devices The hiring range for this position in 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.

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 highly experienced Senior Manager (M3) to lead and scale our Quality Engineering organization supporting various commerce, data and advertising systems. In this role, you will provide strategic, operational, and technical leadership across multiple quality engineering teams, ensuring robust test automation, reliability, and business impact at scale. You will develop and execute a quality strategy that drives measurable improvement in system reliability, speed of delivery, and product excellence, partnering closely with executives, engineering leadership, and cross-functional business units. Ideal candidates are visionary people leaders with a proven track record of growing high-performing teams, implementing transformational quality programs, and delivering significant value in complex and rapidly evolving environments. Responsibilities: Organizational Leadership & Transformation Lead, inspire, and develop multiple quality engineering teams and people leaders (managers/technical leads), fostering a culture of technical excellence, inclusion, and continuous learning. Define the multi-year vision and strategic roadmap for quality engineering across the advertising platform, aligned with company business and technology goals. Champion organizational transformation, driving the adoption of best-in-class practices, tools, and quality metrics at scale. Technical Thought Leadership Set the technical direction for large-scale test automation architecture, cloud-native solutions, and intelligent testing initiatives (AI/ML-driven testing, autonomous pipelines, etc.). Sponsor and guide the evolution of shared automation frameworks, tools, and platforms across product and engineering teams. Ensure timely resolution and prevention of high-severity outages through organizational postmortems, root cause analysis, and systemic improvements. Strategic Planning & Execution Develop, communicate, and execute the quality engineering strategy across multiple product groups, balancing innovation, risk, and operational needs. Oversee resource planning, hiring, and organizational design to ensure scaling and allocation of quality engineering talent to meet evolving business needs. Take ultimate responsibility for quality governance, compliance, and traceability across all product lines within your scope. Cross-Functional & Executive Partnership Build and maintain strong working relationships with senior leadership in engineering, product management, data science, product operations, and business teams. Articulate quality risks, trade-offs, and long-term strategies to executive stakeholders; provide regular reporting on quality metrics and organizational outcomes. Lead cross-functional initiatives to ensure test automation and quality engineering are embedded early and effectively throughout the development lifecycle. Minimum Qualifications: 10+ years of experience in software quality engineering, test automation, or software development, with 5+ years managing managers or leading multi-team organizations Proven track record of scaling and transforming quality engineering functions in complex, cloud-native, high-scale environments Demonstrated experience defining and driving organizational strategy, advocating for quality at the senior/executive level, and influencing business outcomes Expertise in modern test automation frameworks, CI/CD, and emerging trends in software quality Knowledge of software engineering practices and agile approaches Strong desire for establishing and improving product quality 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 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.

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 Build on AWS, including hands-on work with IAM, security policies, and cloud-native services 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 Strong Python development skills, you write production-quality code, not just scripts Experience with deployment and CI/CD tools - Terraform, GitHub Actions, Spinnaker, and Jenkins. Experience with platform engineering, primarily backend development using Python Experience developing APIs and designing database schemas 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.

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. The Business Operations team helps guide and articulate technology strategy and research, and is responsible for driving the day-to-day operation of the Product & Technology organization, including: project and portfolio management and tracking; organization-level capital, space, and resource management and allocation; process management; technical incident management; and our administrative and workplace experience support team. As a member of a diverse and talented organization, the Senior Software Engineer crafts elegant and extensible tools, prototypes, and architectures for high-visibility and critical projects. The Business Operations team helps guide and articulate technology strategy and research and is responsible for driving the day-to-day operation of the Product & Technology organization, including: project and portfolio management and tracking; organization-level capital, space, and resource management and allocation; process management; technical incident management; and our administrative and workplace experience support team. This individual is responsible for direct technical contribution to projects within the team and assisting with ongoing investigations of technologies affecting Disney's industries. Experience in the fields of native application development, API integration, user experience design, version control, and continuous integration is desired. Responsibilities Design prototypes and tools supporting Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology Responsible for researching best approaches and architectures to solve interesting and unique problems facing Disney's businesses. Identify elegant solutions to complex and unique problems Basic Qualifications: A bachelor's degree in computer science or related technical field 5+ years of experience in technical fields Hands-on experience with machine learning methods and techniques Experience building and maintaining production-grade software Experience leveraging AI-assisted development tools in a safe, responsible, and effective manner Experience with effective API integration and design Demonstrated ownership and responsibility of the development, implementation, and release of the software lifecycle Experience with defensive application design and understanding of cybersecurity best practices Excellent technical communication skills and attention to detail Curiosity and a desire to learn Preferred Qualifications: Experience with audio/video processing and analysis Experience with real-time updates and event-driven architectures Hands-on experience with AWS services like Kinesis, Dynamo, ElastiCache, Lambda, S3, ECS, Aurora, and Bedrock Experience with modern JavaScript/TypeScript development, including production use in back-end RESTful APIs and front-end web applications Experience with native mobile application development for iOS (Swift) and/or Android (Kotlin) Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform and CloudFormation Experience with monitoring tools like CloudWatch and Datadog Workflow implementation centered on real-time updates and event-driven architectures The hiring range for this position in Seattle, WA is $148,700 to $199,400 per year and in Los Angeles, CA and 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. 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 are seeking a Manager, Software Engineering, focused on BI & Analytics to lead a high-performing, multidisciplinary team in building and maintaining the data pipelines, AI-powered data solutions, and custom analytics UIs and dashboards that are foundational to Disney's Ad Platforms. In this role, you'll manage both frontend and backend software & data engineering, ensuring that business and end-user needs are met with reliability, scalability, and outstanding UI/UX design. The ideal candidate will be both a technical leader and a people manager with deep expertise in software, data engineering and platform strategy. Responsibilities and Duties of the Role: Instill a culture grounded in engineering best practices such as code quality, documentation, automation, and continuous improvement Ensure engineering principles are consistently applied across projects and teams Manage, mentor, and grow a team of high-performing software and data engineers, fostering a collaborative and innovative culture such as code quality, documentation, automation, and continuous improvement Coordinate with Product Management to align engineering roadmaps with product initiatives and timelines Partner with Program Managers to drive planning, prioritization, and delivery of cross-functional efforts Collaborate with QA leadership to build data quality processes and end-to-end validation such as code quality, documentation, automation, and continuous improvement Ensure engineering principles are consistently applied across projects and teams Lead and grow a high-performing team of software and data engineers working on mission-critical data products Set engineering roadmaps, delivery timelines, and platform-level initiatives Drive adoption of best-in-class tools and practices for data governance, lineage, observability, and cost optimization Provide technical guidance and career development for the team Collaborate with senior leadership to define data strategy and long-term architecture vision Manage capacity planning, resource allocation, and performance reviews Lead vendor/tool evaluations and oversee key integration efforts Partner with BI and analytics leads to ensure consistent, reliable data is delivered across the enterprise Spearhead the implementation of custom dashboards and analytics UIs, leveraging modern web frameworks (React, Angular, Vue, etc.), advanced data visualization, and design system best practices. Rapidly prototype UI components tailored to stakeholder/business requirements, ensuring high standards for usability, accessibility, and visual polish. Drive the integration of AI/ML solutions into both backend pipelines and analytics products; champion the use of AI-powered software development processes and robust, end-to-end SDLC practices. Required Education, Experience/Skills/Training: Required Qualifications Languages: Scala, Python, SQL, JavaScript Data Processing: Apache Spark, Flink, Airflow Platforms & Tools: Databricks, Hive, Presto, Snowflake Cloud: AWS (S3, EMR, Glue, Lambda) Minimum of 8 years of relevant software engineering, data engineering or data science - preferably with a digital media or digital advertising company Experience delivering products in an agile software development environment including sprint work in Jira Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to collaborate and partner across multiple teams and organizations Strong SQL experience including writing/optimizing complex queries against distributed data stores such as Aurora, Hadoop, Hive, Oracle, and Snowflake Experience with data pipeline and workflow management tools: Apache NiFi or Apache Airflow Expert level knowledge in at least one programming language such as Python, R, Scala, Java. Demonstrated experience working with business intelligence tools such as MicroStrategy, Tableau, Business Objects, Looker, etc. Strong experience building and deploying dashboards and UIs with frameworks such as React, Angular, or Vue. Demonstrated ability to quickly prototype and implement custom UI components to meet evolving business/stakeholder specs. Familiarity with AI-powered solution development and integrating machine learning into production data/analytics environments. Strong software development life cycle (SDLC) management experience, including source control, CI/CD, and agile workflows (Jira). Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate complex concepts to technical and unacquainted audiences Experience in working with large datasets (Terabytes or more) Strong presentation and documentation skills including experience working with Confluence, Power Point, and Lucid Chart Strong analytical and critical thinking skills Enjoy working collaboratively with a talented group of people to tackle challenging business problems so we all succeed (or fail fast) as a team Preferred Qualifications Experience designing, building and supporting Business Intelligence (BI) data platforms, dashboards, and reporting environments Experience in Ad Tech, particularly Linear or Addressable Advertising Experience with digital advertising systems and ecosystems Experience using data analytics to triage and troubleshoot advertising workflows Experience with network topologies, systems architecture overviews, and entity relationship diagrams (ERD) Experience with rapid prototyping and agile delivery of analytics products. Required Education Bachelor's degree in computer science, or related technical fields, or equivalent experience Additional Information: Engineers are expected to be in the office four days a week. This role is hiring in Glendale, CA The hiring range for this position in Los Angeles, CA is between $171,600 - $230,100, Seattle, WA is between $179,700 - $241,000 and San Francisco, CA is between $187,900 - $252,000. 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.

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. 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. Job Summary: The Ad Serving Engineering organization within Disney Entertainment and the ESPN organization is responsible for building, enhancing, and maintaining the high-performance, distributed, microservice-based Digital Advertising Platform. The platform is charged with the qualification, delivery, and tracking of Digital Advertising campaigns (Video on Demand, Live TV, and innovative interactive ads) across all of Disney online properties, including Hulu, Disney+, and ESPN+. In addition, Ad Serving teams collaborate in the development of supporting components, such as anti-ad fatigue systems, impression counting pipelines, and ad experience flows. We also work on integrations with critical services responsible for the entitlements, correct pacing, targeting, selection of ads, and third-party systems. As part of the Decisioning Fleet, you will directly contribute to optimizing ad qualification and selection to make sure viewers always see the right ad at the right time. You will also help build tools that analyze what ads are competing for slots for ad breaks across Hulu, Disney+, ESPN, and others. As a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer (P3) on our team, you'll leverage your technical expertise to design and deliver scalable, performant, and maintainable solutions that directly impact the stability and quality of Disney's ad delivery systems. Daily, you should bring: A willingness and desire to effectively communicate and collaborate across teams and systems. An understanding of the importance of project ownership. A passion for mentoring, learning, and adapting to a very dynamic and fast-paced environment. An understanding of micro-service encapsulation and loose coupling, and why they are important. An understanding of how to define technical and operational metrics to measure system health and to manage risk. Use AI tools responsibly to improve productivity while adhering to company policies. Kindness and pragmatic optimism. Responsibilities: Design, implement, and test solutions for high-throughput, low-latency microservices. Enhance observability with metrics, monitoring, and alerting. Translate product requirements into actionable engineering tasks. Take ownership of one or more of the team's domain areas. Integrate AI-assisted development practices into daily workflows. Participate in On-Call rotations per team escalation policy. Basic Qualifications: BS or MS in Computer Science / Engineering or relevant work experience. 5+ years of software engineering experience. Proficiency with Java. Experience with ReactJS or similar frontend frameworks, with the ability to quickly pick up new technologies. Demonstrable analytical / problem-solving skills. Great communication, collaboration skills, and a strong teamwork ethic with both technical and non-technical audiences. Preferred Qualifications: Experience with: SpringBoot and related Spring projects. Modern frontend development practices Non-relational database technologies like DynamoDB. Caching datastores such as Redis, ValKey or MemCache. Data Streaming Mechanisms such as Apache Kafka and/or Kinesis. Cloud platforms such as AWS. Modern DevOps tools such as Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes. Familiarity with AI productivity tools and their application in software development. Domain knowledge in Ad Tech. Additional Information: Engineers are expected to be in the office four days a week. This role is hiring in San Francisco, Santa Monica, Glendale, or Seattle 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 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.

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.

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. Job Summary: As a Senior Software Engineer on the Build Tooling Software team within Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology (DEET), you'll develop and support mission-critical infrastructure, custom tools, and shared libraries that allow application teams to quickly and dependably deliver software to their customers. We're responsible for making sure 1000s of engineers and 100s of teams can get their software into production quickly, reliably and safely. We're looking for an engineer with over 8 years hands-on experience in software development with an understanding of CI/CD processes and tools and a desire to learn more. Responsibilities: Work with a team of engineers building software in a collaborative software development process to achieve the teams' goals Build and maintain software to abstract build, release, and deploy events for use by dozens of development organizations Understand the needs of the 1000s of developers that use our software and actively and measurably improve their experience Work directly with app development teams to determine needs and implement CI/CD best practices Lead the development of critical features ensuring they meet user needs and fit for purpose Support critical build and artifact storage systems for the entire organization Participate in the on-call rotation, supporting systems and services during production incidents Qualifications: Minimum of 5 years relevant professional experience Proficiency in at least one modern programming language, such as Python, Java, C++, C, C#, etc. Familiarity with scripting in Bash / Powershell Understanding of a modern collaborative SDLC and experience with a variety of workflows, processes and techniques, i.e.: Scrum, Kanban, GitOps, Monorepos, Micro Services, Feature Flagging, etc Experience working with version-controlled environments and CI/CD workflows. Proficiency in setting up and maintaining pipelines with at least one of: GitLab CI GitHub Actions TeamCity Jenkins Argo SonarQube (for code quality and scanning) In-depth knowledge of Linux: File systems, user and group management, process control, permission schemes. SSH key management and secure shell operations. Cloud Platforms: Hands-on experience with AWS core services i.e. EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch, etc. Understanding of the wider AWS ecosystem and knowledge of other cloud providers desirable Containers & Orchestration: Docker: Experience building, running, and debugging containerized applications. Kubernetes and Helm: Operational knowledge of deploying workloads via manifests or Helm charts. Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Experience provisioning and managing infrastructure using through code and configuration using tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, etc Familiarity with AI tooling within the software development lifecycle and how to effectively integrate and utilize these tools to enhance development processes Ability to effectively collaborate with remote team members Excellent written and verbal communication skills BA/BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent technical experience The hiring range for this position in Santa Monica, California is $141,900 to $190,300 per year and in New York, NY 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.

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. 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. Role Overview The Content Platform Engineering team is responsible for the early lifecycle of media playback, facilitating systems for content title origination and greenlighting, distribution planning, metadata management, localization, and scheduling across platforms. We also drive the consolidation and automation of duplicative tooling across Disney's multiple acquisitions to continually improve the way we deliver media. As a Senior Software Engineer on this team, you will: Define platform capabilities, designing and implementing a diverse suite of products and services that advance Disney's media supply chain. Innovate a world class content platform to support content delivery for brands such as Disney plus, ESPN+, Hulu, ABC, Marvel and Star Wars, powering the some of the most watched entertainment content Responsibilities: Building scalable, maintainable, and well-tested software solutions which are flexible to meet the requirements of multiple customers and stakeholders. Collaborate with other software engineers and cross-functional teams Work independently to design, build, test, and deploy high quality software solutions Provide technical guidance and evangelize best practices. Maintain a deep understanding of our core systems and how they interact with upstream and downstream dependencies. Contribute and review code, set standards, and work with engineers to ensure product and design specifications are met Responsible for fundamental platform performance, scalability, and resiliency Partner with stakeholders to refine requirements, and propose solutions to problems that span multiple teams Contribute to cross-functional troubleshooting of complex issues as needed Troubleshoot issues and fix defects Mentor junior engineers and conduct code reviews Basic Qualifications BS Computer Science or related technical discipline or its equivalent 5+ years related experience designing backend architectures and delivering backend applications in a production environment. Experience with common backend technologies such as Java, GraphQL, REST APIs, microservice architectures, async programming Experience with Spring Framework Experience with architecture and delivery of high volume, cached, fault tolerant, multi-threaded scalable systems Experience with a wide range of data store technologies such as MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch, Postgres, and DynamoDB Experience with Cloud-based technologies such as AWS Lambda, EC2, S3, SQS, Step Functions, and Fargate Experience with build and deployment technologies such as Docker, Gitlab-CI, Terraform/Cloud formation, and Jenkins Experience in Agile/Scrum methodology Team player with strong oral and written communications skills Motivated self-starter with the ability to learn and adapt to new technologies Expertise with full lifecycle of application development, including best practices of unit testing, code reviews, documentation, etc. Strong communication skills and attention to detail Preferred Qualifications Previous work experience in media distribution Experience working with vendor teams to deliver high quality results Knowledge of performance testing and application profiling Strong curiosity about how Disney delivers the Magic and a desire to be a part of it Expert in Java Expert in AWS, Azure, or GCP The hiring range for this position in Glendale, CA 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. 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. Job Summary: The Ad Serving Engineering organization within Disney Entertainment and the ESPN organization is responsible for building, enhancing, and maintaining the high-performance, distributed, microservice-based Digital Advertising Platform. The platform is charged with the qualification, delivery, and tracking of Digital Advertising campaigns (Video on Demand, Live TV, and innovative interactive ads) across all of Disney online properties, including Hulu, Disney+, and ESPN+. In addition, Ad Serving teams collaborate in the development of supporting components, such as anti-ad fatigue systems, impression counting pipelines, and ad experience flows. We also work on integrations with critical services responsible for the entitlements, correct pacing, targeting, selection of ads, and third-party systems. As part of the Decisioning Fleet, you will directly contribute to optimizing ad qualification and selection to make sure viewers always see the right ad at the right time. You will also help build tools that analyze what ads are competing for slots for ad breaks across Hulu, Disney+, ESPN, and others. As a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer (P3) on our team, you'll leverage your technical expertise to design and deliver scalable, performant, and maintainable solutions that directly impact the stability and quality of Disney's ad delivery systems. Daily, you should bring: A willingness and desire to effectively communicate and collaborate across teams and systems. An understanding of the importance of project ownership. A passion for mentoring, learning, and adapting to a very dynamic and fast-paced environment. An understanding of micro-service encapsulation and loose coupling, and why they are important. An understanding of how to define technical and operational metrics to measure system health and to manage risk. Use AI tools responsibly to improve productivity while adhering to company policies. Kindness and pragmatic optimism. Responsibilities: Design, implement, and test solutions for high-throughput, low-latency microservices. Enhance observability with metrics, monitoring, and alerting. Translate product requirements into actionable engineering tasks. Take ownership of one or more of the team's domain areas. Integrate AI-assisted development practices into daily workflows. Participate in On-Call rotations per team escalation policy. Basic Qualifications: BS or MS in Computer Science / Engineering or relevant work experience. 5+ years of software engineering experience. Proficiency with Java. Experience with ReactJS or similar frontend frameworks, with the ability to quickly pick up new technologies. Demonstrable analytical / problem-solving skills. Great communication, collaboration skills, and a strong teamwork ethic with both technical and non-technical audiences. Preferred Qualifications: Experience with: SpringBoot and related Spring projects. Modern frontend development practices Non-relational database technologies like DynamoDB. Caching datastores such as Redis, ValKey or MemCache. Data Streaming Mechanisms such as Apache Kafka and/or Kinesis. Cloud platforms such as AWS. Modern DevOps tools such as Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes. Familiarity with AI productivity tools and their application in software development. Domain knowledge in Ad Tech. Additional Information: Engineers are expected to be in the office four days a week. This role is hiring in San Francisco, Santa Monica, Glendale, or Seattle 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.

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 Build on AWS, including hands-on work with IAM, security policies, and cloud-native services 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 Strong Python development skills, you write production-quality code, not just scripts Experience with deployment and CI/CD tools - Terraform, GitHub Actions, Spinnaker, and Jenkins. Experience with platform engineering, primarily backend development using Python Experience developing APIs and designing database schemas 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.

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. The Business Operations team helps guide and articulate technology strategy and research, and is responsible for driving the day-to-day operation of the Product & Technology organization, including: project and portfolio management and tracking; organization-level capital, space, and resource management and allocation; process management; technical incident management; and our administrative and workplace experience support team. As a member of a diverse and talented organization, the Senior Software Engineer crafts elegant and extensible tools, prototypes, and architectures for high-visibility and critical projects. The Business Operations team helps guide and articulate technology strategy and research and is responsible for driving the day-to-day operation of the Product & Technology organization, including: project and portfolio management and tracking; organization-level capital, space, and resource management and allocation; process management; technical incident management; and our administrative and workplace experience support team. This individual is responsible for direct technical contribution to projects within the team and assisting with ongoing investigations of technologies affecting Disney's industries. Experience in the fields of native application development, API integration, user experience design, version control, and continuous integration is desired. Responsibilities Design prototypes and tools supporting Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology Responsible for researching best approaches and architectures to solve interesting and unique problems facing Disney's businesses. Identify elegant solutions to complex and unique problems Basic Qualifications: A bachelor's degree in computer science or related technical field 5+ years of experience in technical fields Hands-on experience with machine learning methods and techniques Experience building and maintaining production-grade software Experience leveraging AI-assisted development tools in a safe, responsible, and effective manner Experience with effective API integration and design Demonstrated ownership and responsibility of the development, implementation, and release of the software lifecycle Experience with defensive application design and understanding of cybersecurity best practices Excellent technical communication skills and attention to detail Curiosity and a desire to learn Preferred Qualifications: Experience with audio/video processing and analysis Experience with real-time updates and event-driven architectures Hands-on experience with AWS services like Kinesis, Dynamo, ElastiCache, Lambda, S3, ECS, Aurora, and Bedrock Experience with modern JavaScript/TypeScript development, including production use in back-end RESTful APIs and front-end web applications Experience with native mobile application development for iOS (Swift) and/or Android (Kotlin) Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform and CloudFormation Experience with monitoring tools like CloudWatch and Datadog Workflow implementation centered on real-time updates and event-driven architectures The hiring range for this position in Seattle, WA is $148,700 to $199,400 per year and in Los Angeles, CA and 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. 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.

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. 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. Disney, a global leader in entertainment, is seeking a talented and dedicated Senior Software Engineer to join our Payments team. This is a unique opportunity to be part of a team within the Commerce, Growth and Identity organization that manages the payment transactions of millions of customers across our celebrated platforms - Disney+, ESPN+, Hulu. What we're looking for We value engineers who demonstrate a strong sense of ownership, accountability, and initiative. Success in this role requires proactively identifying problems, driving solutions with minimal direction, collaborating effectively across teams, and taking responsibility for the long-term health and reliability of the systems you build and operate . Role Location: This is an on-site role requiring 4 days in-person at designated office locations. Responsibilities: Own the stability, scalability, and reliability of our multi-tenant payment platform supporting Disney+, ESPN+, and Hulu, proactively identifying and resolving issues before they impact customers. Demonstrate strong ownership by driving technical solutions from design through implementation and operation, collaborating across teams to evolve the architecture of Tier 1 payment services. Build deep expertise in Global Payments, taking initiative to understand international payment ecosystems and solve the unique challenges of serving a global streaming audience. Deliver at scale by designing, building, and operating high-throughput systems that process millions of payment transactions while maintaining performance, resilience, and operational excellence. Lead reliability and performance improvements for mission-critical payment services, including integrations with new payment processors and support for SCA and other regional payment requirements. Champion security best practices for payment data storage, tokenization, and PCI compliance, ensuring the platform meets the highest security standards. Maintain a high engineering bar by writing well-tested, maintainable code, actively participating in design discussions and code reviews, and continuously improving system quality. Take initiative to identify opportunities for innovation, operational improvements, automation, and technical debt reduction, helping shape the future of our payment platform. Operate with an ownership mindset, supporting critical production systems through on-call rotations, incident response, root cause analysis, and long-term corrective actions to improve service health. Basic Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science , Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience Minimum of 5 years of related work experience Proven hands-on experience with Scala, Java, or similar programming languages. Proven hands-on experience with API design, including REST and gRPC . Demonstrated analytical and strong system design skills. Hands-on experience with event-driven systems using technologies such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, or AWS SNS/SQS. Exposure to cloud infrastructure, such as AWS, Spinnaker, and Kubernetes Strong communicator and team player, able to adapt quickly and effectively in dynamic, fast-paced environments. A commitment to continuous learning, mentorship, and striving for excellence. Preferred Qualifications: Experience working in functional programming environments, especially with Scala and the Cats Effect ecosystem Experience managing Tier 1 production services, including participation in on-call rotations and incident response. Experience mentoring interns and junior engineers The hiring range for this position in New York, NY is $148,700 to $199,400 and in Los Angeles, CA 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.

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.

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. Commerce, Data & Identity provides the core product management functions for areas crucial to Disney's media businesses. These include initiatives and products that power digital commerce, identity, and growth, as well as those that reach uniquely across The Walt Disney Company enterprise, such as messaging and privacy, among others. Additionally, it is responsible for the data engineering, science, and products for Disney Entertainment & ESPN, along with their interconnection with other parts of The Walt Disney Company. The Subscriptions team is looking to expand our team in the NYC office. We are a dynamic team of engineers that support all your Disney, ESPN and Hulu subscriptions at scale! We solve problems at internet-scale that only a handful of teams ever reach. We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior Software Engineer to join our dynamic engineering team. In this role, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and deploying scalable and efficient software solutions using Functional Programming Style Scala and other backend languages. You will work with cutting-edge technologies in cloud computing, containerization, distributed systems, and observability. The ideal candidate should have a strong background in full-stack development, modern DevOps practices, and experience working with cloud-native technologies such as AWS and Kubernetes. Responsibilities Development: Design, develop, and maintain scalable, secure, and efficient software applications using Scala and other backend languages. Cloud Infrastructure: Utilize AWS services (CFN, EC2, Lambda, S3, Dynamo, etc.) to deploy and manage applications in the cloud. Containerization & Orchestration: Implement containerized solutions using Docker, deploy and manage services on Kubernetes. Distributed Systems: Design and build distributed systems that are fault-tolerant, highly available, and scalable. Understand concepts such as event-driven architecture, microservices, and data consistency. Observability & Monitoring: Implement and maintain observability best practices, including tagging, metrics, and logging to provide comprehensive visibility into system performance. Use tools like Datadog to monitor the health and performance of applications in real-time. Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams including product managers, UI/UX designers, and DevOps engineers to define requirements, design systems, and deliver features. Code Quality & Best Practices: Write clean, maintainable, and testable code while following best practices for software development. Perform code reviews and provide mentorship to junior engineers on and offshore. Problem-Solving & Innovation: Tackle complex technical challenges and continuously seek opportunities to improve system performance, scalability, and reliability.AI Best Practices: Follow team's best practices regarding the safe use of LLMs and suggest improvements as appropriate. Basic Qualifications Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Computer Engineering or similar field. 5+ years of experience in software development, with a focus on Functional Programming Scala stacks. Hands-on experience with AWS cloud services and Kubernetes for container orchestration. Strong understanding of RESTful APIs, Microservices Architecture, and Event-Driven Architecture. Strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and the ability to work in a collaborative, fast-paced environment. Experience with: - Functional Programming Languages - Scala (preferred) using ZIO, Cats, Cats Effect - Others considered - Modern RX Java, Kotlin, Clojure/Lisp, Haskell, OCaml, Elm, Typescript Effect AWS, Cloudformation, Terraform or similar technologies. Experience in Istio and Spinnaker Full software development lifecycle experience - including maintenance after release. Experience in Agile software development practices and version control systems (e.g., Git, Jira) Preferred Qualifications Solid understanding of distributed systems and how to design and scale them. Proficiency with CI/CD pipelines and modern development tools. Experience in building observability solutions using tools like Datadog, including tagging, metrics, and logging. The hiring range for this position in New York, NY 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.