Job Posting Title:

Sr Software Engineer

Req ID:

10134682

Job Description:

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. 

Job Summary:

The Data Foundations Platform and Governance Engineering  team within the Commerce, Data, and Identity organization within the larger Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product and Technology organization is in search of a Senior Software Engineer.  The role of this Senior Engineer will focus on privacy solutions and data subject rights automation, working cross-functionally with analytics, data architecture, legal and security partners to build scalable solutions to solve complex privacy related challenges. You’ll get to understand the challenges of how data is being used at Disney’s world-class streaming services while pushing the boundaries of what is possible using the latest technologies available in AWS, Databricks, and beyond.

Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:

• Contribute to  developing full-stack applications as part of a unified platform and user experience
• Be a key player in a cross-functional team of engineers who build software for a large-scale data processing ecosystem, supporting real-time and batch data pipelines for analytics, data science, and operations.

• Contribute to architecture, design, and code shared libraries in Scala and Python that abstract complex business logic to allow consistent functionality across all data pipelines across the Data organization
• Contribute to architecture and build world class modularized tooling to understand our very complex environments to come up with plans for simplification, migration, and maintenance.

• Maintain software engineering and architecture best practices and standards within the team and wider organization, along with a culture of quality, innovation, and experimentation
• Evangelize and evolve the platform, best-practices, data driven decisions; identify new use cases and features and drive adoption
• Build out a robust observability, alerting, logging, and system control plane that allows easy diagnosis of any issues across all our data pipelines.
• Contribute to maintaining, updating, and expanding existing software deployments while maintaining strict uptime SLAs
• Maintain detailed documentation of your work and changes to support data quality and data governance requirements
• Be an active participant and advocate of agile/scrum ceremonies to collaborate and improve processes for our team
• Be a part of the magic: Collaborate with product managers, architects, UX designers, and other engineers to drive the success of the Foundational Platform

Required Education, Experience/Skills/Training:

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of data engineering experience in software engineering in the data space
• Strong software algorithmic problem-solving expertise
• Strong fundamental Scala and Python software programming skills
• Good understanding of AWS or other cloud provider resources (S3)
• Strong SQL skills and ability to creatively problem solve and dive deep into our data and software ecosystem
• Hands-on production environment experience with distributed processing systems such as Apache Spark
• Hands-on production experience with workflow orchestration systems such as Airflow for creating and maintaining data pipelines
• Scripting language experience (Bash, PowerShell)
• Knowledge of event-driven systems, event buses, and graph databases (Kinesis, Neo4J)
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Cloud Formation, etc.)
• Experience  with Docker and Docker orchestration tooling (k8s, EKS, ECS, etc.)
• Experience developing and maintaining CI/CD environments 
• Experience with front-end visualization of large data sets (d3, Linkurious)
• Experience with testing libraries (selenium, junit, jest)
• Technologies such as OneTrust, Databricks, Jupyter, Snowflake, Redshift, Airflow, DynamoDB, Redis, Kubernetes, Kinesis, REST APIs, Terraform, Go
• SQL, Python, Scala, other computer software languages
• Willingness and ability to learn and pick up new skillsets
• Self-starting problem solver with an eye for detail and excellent analytical and communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems preferred
• Experience with at least one major Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) or cloud database technology (Snowflake, Redshift, Big Query)
• Experience in developing APIs with GraphQL
• Experience with large-scale data libraries (Druid, DataBricks, Snowflake)
• Experience maintaining and collaborating with a shared React component library
• Deep Understanding of AWS or other cloud providers as well as infrastructure as code
• Familiarity with Data Modeling techniques and Data Warehousing standard methodologies and practices
• Familiar with Scrum and Agile methodologies
• Familiarity with privacy regulations and/or data subject rights

Required Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience

The hiring range for this position in Santa Monica, CA is $138,900 - $186,200 per year and in New York, NY is $145,400 - $195,000 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.

Job Posting Segment:

Product Management

Job Posting Primary Business:

PM - Data Product

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:

USA - CA - 1200 Grand Central Ave, USA - NY - 7 Hudson Square

Date Posted:

2025-11-10