Job Posting Title:

Software Engineer I

Req ID:

10141027

Job Description:

Department/Group Overview:

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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 is an innovated organization that is focused on providing the best possible video playback experience, art, and metadata to customers around the world, powered by exceptional technology.  This strategic work requires streamlining and repurposing technology across different business and distribution channels – including streaming, linear, and theatrical – so that technology can ebb and flow across the needs of the business

Job Summary:

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The System Engineering & Integration (SEI) team needs a Software Engineer I to assist with ongoing development of our automated workflows through writing code that will help expand existing software functionality in our SEI pipelines.

Within this role, your primary responsibility will be to work with the SEI team to help automate validation workflows.  Your daily responsibilities will include working through assigned Jira tasks, contributing new code to our GitHub repositories, as well as documenting tasks and new features in our wiki.  Through working to expand our automation capabilities, you will be helping enable the SEI team to grow its impact by better streamlining our software builds, validations, and deliverables.

In addition to new feature development with our automated workflows, you will also be tasked with helping to maintain current code bases.  You will be assigned tasks to fix bugs in current SEI software, and you will also participate in code reviews with other developers, where you will provide feedback and approve code changes before they are merged into main branches.  By contributing to the existing software workload, you will be helping our team to efficiently and effectively deliver new features and bug fixes at a high velocity.

Lastly, you will also work closely with other software engineers to help troubleshoot any issues that may arise in DEV/QA/PROD – from development environment issues, to software integration issues with other teams throughout the organization, to issues that maybe impacting production use cases.

Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:

Summarize job responsibilities, core deliverables and major duties. What is required for the position to exist?  

-Focus on major areas of work, typically 20% or more of role

% of Time

• Writing code to help build automated workflows that will continue to streamline the SEI integration test processes
• Help maintain existing SEI code repositories through bug fixing, developing new features, and participating in code reviews by reviewing/approving commits from other developers
• Work alongside other software engineers to troubleshoot issues in DEV/QA/PROD environments

50%

30%

20%

Required Education, Experience/Skills/Training:

Minimum and Preferred. Inclusive of Licenses/Certs (include functional experience as well as behavioral attributes and/or leadership capabilities)

Basic Qualifications

• A firm knowledge of the Linux operating system
• Experience with source code management (GitHub)
• Experience with languages including – Python, Shell Scripting, JSON, XML
• Experience with all stages of the software development lifecycle (development/build/release/deployment)
• Excellent interpersonal and collaboration skills, with the strong ability to both work closely with a high functioning team and while also working with other teams across the organization
• Eagerness to take on new challenges and juggle multiple responsibilities in a fast-paced setting

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with technologies including – Jenkins, Ansible, AWS, Kubernetes, Datadog, Artifactory
• Experience with software automation
• Experience in the media streaming industry is a plus
• One year of related work experience and/or internship experience

Required Education  

• BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent hands-on experience

Job Posting Segment:

PE - Media Platform

Job Posting Primary Business:

PE - Media Platform - Media Processing & Metadata Platform

Primary Job Posting Category:

Software Engineer

Employment Type:

Full time

Primary City, State, Region, Postal Code:

Morrisville, NC, USA

Alternate City, State, Region, Postal Code:

Date Posted:

2026-01-26