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:
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Innovation: We develop and implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms, and solve complex and distinctive technical problems.
As a member of the Experience Delivery – Sports Distribution Team, you will build and support the services and distribution APIs that deliver sports data and content to all our products including the ESPN app, ESPN.com, ESPN Studio shows, among many others. As a Senior Software Engineer you will be responsible for advancing our platforms onto modern frameworks and technologies. We are looking for a passionate, impactful technologist who seeks to bring the best out in themselves and those around them. Someone who can provide a fresh perspective and innovative insight to our initiatives.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience
• 5+ years of relevant industry experience
• Demonstrated proficiency in developing high volume, cached, fault tolerant, multi-threaded scalable systems
• Proven Experience with Java and open-source technologies like Spring, Tomcat, MySQL, Kafka, Elastic Search, etc.
• Experience with cloud-based technologies such as AWS EC2, ECS, SQS, S3, Lambda, CloudFormation, etc.
• Exposure to full lifecycle of application development, including best practices of unit testing, code reviews, documentation, observability etc.
• Motivated self-starter with the ability to learn and adapt to new technologies
• Demonstrated ability to work on a diverse scope of software and database projects requiring detailed analysis, creative/practical problem solving. Strong analytical skills as well as solid capabilities for debugging and troubleshooting.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Experience setting up and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Familiarity with modern frontend technologies
• Hands on experience with Generative AI
• Experience with distributed caching systems such as Redis and memcached

• Collaborate with product managers and fellow engineers in the design and implementation of systems delivering high throughput experiences
• Contribute to, and sometimes lead cross-team architecture discussions
• Efficiently operate mission-critical cloud-based services, with an emphasis on reliability, security, and performance
• Analyze and resolve complex engineering problems involving high trafficked web and mobile application services and APIs
• Design data models and build scalable backend services that interact with frontend clients and applications
• Interface with a variety of stakeholders to define requirements and project timelines
• Research and experiment with the latest and greatest technologies to identify, evangelize, and apply them to current and future projects
• Perform code reviews and guide the technical direction of the team