Senior Software Engineer - Platform Engineer, Infrastructure

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.

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’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our 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:

• Evaluate, prototype, and integrate new AI tooling to enhance team and organizational capabilities

• Design and develop AI agents and MCP servers that streamline workflows for both internal and cross-org developers

• Stay current with emerging technologies and assess their applicability to team objectives

• Design, build, and maintain Terraform modules enabling developer self-service infrastructure provisioning

• Manage and evolve Spinnaker pipelines to support diverse deployment patterns

• Define, document, and continuously improve CI/CD processes and best practices for the organization

• Build custom internal tooling that improves developer productivity across the organization utilizing Python, Go, and Typescript.

• Identify pain points experienced by engineering teams within the Ads organization and deliver purpose-built solutions

• Create reusable, well-documented tools that scale across multiple teams

• Contribute to architectural decisions and establish technical standards for the team

• Take end-to-end ownership of projects from scoping through delivery, driving them to completion with minimal oversight

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field (Master’s preferred), or equivalent experience.5+ years of backend or platform engineering experience, with a track record of building scalable APIs

• Proficient in Python, Typescript, or Go

• Expertise with AWS cloud provider

• 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

• 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

• Experience with additional cloud platforms such as Azure or GCP alongside AWS.

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The hiring range for this position in Los Angeles, CA is between $141,900 – $190,300, Seattle, WA is between $148,700 - $199,400 and San Francisco, CA is between $155,400 - $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.