Job Posting Title:

Software Engineer II

Req ID:

10143815

Job Description:

Job Description

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.

Disney Streaming is looking for a motivated Software Engineer to join the Growth Life Engineering team.

The Growth Lifecycle engineering group is responsible for orchestrating the customer flow and integrating with various other backend services during signups for Disney+, ESPN+, and Hulu. We own and support many tier-1 services that need to be highly available in all regions.

Responsibilities:

• Design high performance and scalable systems and improve system architecture.
  • Implement Scala and Java services responsible for storing users invoices, refunds, and chargebacks.
  • These services will also stream events to data and analytics teams as well as accounting systems.
  • Services need to be fast and scale for increased traffic during peak load times. 

• Write, test, and release elegant software systems that are robust and scalable production ready using the latest technologies
  • The services will be deployed in multiple regions globally and be responsible for handling traffic for over 100 million combined Disney and Hulu users.
  • Work closely with QA engineers to ensure appropriate coverage.

• Ensure high data quality by building and maintaining validation logic
  • Add appropriate data sanity and validation checks.
  • During data migrations, add checks to ensure data integrity and completeness.
  • Work with product teams to adapt and refine validation rules.

• Build deployment solutions that allow for SOX auditability and simple rollback
  • They will build spinnaker pipelines that can deploy services to multiple regions and multiple AWS accounts. 

• Demonstrate engineering excellence by developing high performance software and building appropriate monitoring into the application
  •  They will build tools and dashboards to monitor performance of the services and build alerting capability in the event of abnormal traffic or degradation of service.

• Attend agile methodology and SCRUM processes such as sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily standups, and retrospectives with the team.
  • They will also be involved in bi-weekly grooming and planning meetings in order to adapt to changing product priorities and roadmaps.

Basic Qualifications:

• 3 years of software engineering, ideally backend server-side development
• Knowledge of at least one object-oriented language
• Familiarity with databases (SQL and no-SQL)

• You care deeply about craftsmanship in your software, and can work backwards from the customer experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

About The Walt Disney Company:

The Walt Disney Company, together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading diversified international family entertainment and media enterprise with the following business segments: media networks, parks and resorts, studio entertainment, consumer products and interactive media. From humble beginnings as a cartoon studio in the 1920s to its preeminent name in the entertainment industry today, Disney proudly continues its legacy of creating world-class stories and experiences for every member of the family. Disney’s stories, characters and experiences reach consumers and guests from every corner of the globe. With operations in more than 40 countries, our employees and cast members work together to create entertainment experiences that are both universally and locally cherished.

The hiring range for this position in Santa Monica, CA / Glendale, CA is $117,500.00 - $157,500.00 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.

Job Posting Segment:

Product Engineering

Job Posting Primary Business:

PE - Commerce & Identity

Primary Job Posting Category:

Software Engineer

Employment Type:

Full time

Primary City, State, Region, Postal Code:

Santa Monica, CA, USA

Alternate City, State, Region, Postal Code:

Date Posted:

2026-03-02