Senior Software Engineer, Platform Engineering
Aplicar ahora Aplique más tarde Job ID 10124974 Ubicación Glendale, California, Estados Unidos Business Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology Fecha de publicación 03/07/2025Detalles del empleo:
Technology is at the heart of Disney’s past, present, and future. Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is a global organization of engineers, product developers, designers, technologists, data scientists, and more – all working to build and advance the technological backbone for Disney’s media business globally.
The team marries technology with creativity to build world-class products, enhance storytelling, and drive velocity, innovation, and scalability for our businesses. We are Storytellers and Innovators. Creators and Builders. Entertainers and Engineers. We work with every part of The Walt Disney Company’s media portfolio to advance the technological foundation and consumer media touch points serving millions of people around the world.
Here are a few reasons why we think you’d love working here:
Building the future of Disney’s media: Our Technologists are designing and building the products and platforms that will power our media, advertising, and distribution businesses for years to come.
Reach, Scale & Impact: More than ever, Disney’s technology and products serve as a signature doorway for fans' connections with the company’s brands and stories. Disney+. Hulu. ESPN. ABC. ABC News…and many more. These products and brands – and the unmatched stories, storytellers, and events they carry – matter to millions of people globally.
Innovation: We develop and implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms, and solve complex and distinctive technical problems.
Ad Platforms is responsible for Disney’s industry-leading ad technology and products – driving advertising performance, innovation, and value in Disney’s sports, news, and entertainment content, across all media platforms.
We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Platform Engineering infrastructure team within Disney’s Ad Technology organization. Our team’s mission is to provide automation, custom tooling, and infrastructure support that will enable teams across the organization to deliver products quickly and safely. As a Senior Software Engineer on this team, you will have a deep understanding of cloud infrastructure, containerization, and automation, with hands-on experience in designing, deploying, and maintaining scalable platforms. You'll develop tools and automation that enable developers to deploy and debug services easily and efficiently. You'll work closely with multiple teams of engineers to design new solutions that streamline our operations and help our engineers scale.
Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:
Build and maintain internal tools for use within the team and for the larger organization utilizing TypeScript, Python, and Go.
Improve our core Terraform modules to ensure they meet user needs when deploying cloud-based services.
Join the existing on-call rotation to support urgent production issues as well as user requests for assistance with tooling and pipelines.
Build Helm charts for Kubernetes deployments
Utilize Datadog for monitoring and observability and use it to track down hard to solve issues.
Maintain and improve our existing Istio networking implementation for use across all teams
Partner with other teams to identify pain points and understand how we can work to resolve them through either existing tooling or by creating a new optimal solution
Basic Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equitable work experience
5+ years of backend or platform engineering experience, with a track record of building scalable APIs
Proficient in Python, Typescript, and/or Go
Expertise with AWS cloud provider and it’s infrastructure as a service offerings
Familiarity with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes and Docker
Knowledge of infrastructure as code such as Terraform
Strong understanding of cloud-native design patterns, secure AI API integration, and service scalability
Strong problem-solving abilities and solid production debugging skills
Excellent communication skills, with the ability to collaborate across multiple engineering teams
Preferred Qualifications:
Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, and/or related certification/s
Experience with services meshes within Kubernetes such as Istio
Experience developing developer tooling
Strong understanding of large, complex distributed systems
Experience implementing and improving monitoring and alerting systems. Building dashboards to help better visualize the information
Ability to architect and document new services and features
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The hiring range for this position in Glendale, California is $136,038 to $182,490 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.
Información adicional:
DISNEYTECHAcerca de Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology:
En Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology, fusionamos imaginación e innovación para reinventar las formas en las que las personas disfrutan e interactúan con los cuentos y los productos más queridos del mundo. Nuestro trabajo tiene un gran alcance y es sumamente sofisticado. Brindamos experiencias increíbles, transformamos el futuro de los medios de comunicación y creamos productos y plataformas que permiten la conexión entre las personas de cualquier lugar del mundo y los cuentos y los deportes que más les gustan.
Disney tiene la capacidad de combinar tecnología de primer nivel con una creatividad inigualable, y eso nos hace únicos. Es la esencia de nuestro pasado, presente y futuro. Somos narradores e innovadores. Creadores y constructores. Artistas e ingenieros.
Acerca de The Walt Disney Company:
The Walt Disney Company, junto con sus subsidiarias y afiliadas, es una empresa internacional diversificada líder en entretenimiento familiar y medios de comunicación que incluye tres segmentos comerciales principales: Disney Entertainment, ESPN y Disney Experiences. Desde sus humildes comienzos como estudio de dibujos animados en la década de 1920 hasta su reconocido nombre en la industria del entretenimiento en la actualidad, Disney continúa con orgullo su legado de crear historias y experiencias de clase mundial para toda la familia. Las historias, los personajes y las experiencias de Disney llegan a consumidores e invitados de todos los rincones del mundo. Con operaciones en más de 40 países, nuestros empleados y miembros del elenco trabajan juntos para crear experiencias de entretenimiento que sean apreciadas a nivel local y global.
Este puesto es en Disney Streaming Technology LLC , que forma parte de una empresa comercial que denominamos Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology.
Disney Streaming Technology LLC es un empleador que ofrece igualdad de oportunidades. Los solicitantes recibirán consideración para el empleo independientemente de su raza, religión, color, sexo, orientación sexual, género, identidad de género, expresión de género, nacionalidad, ascendencia, edad, estado civil, condición de militar o veterano, afección médica, información genética o discapacidad, o cualquier otro fundamento prohibido por la ley federal, estatal o local. Disney defiende un entorno empresarial donde las ideas y decisiones de todas las personas nos ayudan a crecer, innovar, crear las mejores historias y ser relevantes en un mundo en constante evolución.