Senior Software Engineer
Company: The Walt Disney Company
Location: Glendale
Posted on: April 1, 2026
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Job Description:
Job Posting Title: Senior Software Engineer Req ID: 10142050 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. 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. The Audience Data and Measurement (ADM) team is
part of Ad Platforms, with a mission to help advertisers reach the
right audience and deliver personalized, optimized experiences
tailored to customer needs and interests. Our ADM Platform offers a
unified solution for audience data exchange and enrichment, Ads
measurement, as well as high-concurrency, low-latency audience
targeting services powered by advanced data technologies. This is a
dynamic, cross-domain team delivering end-to-end solutions across
diverse technical areas, including machine learning, big data,
microservices, and data visualization. As a Senior Software
Engineer, you will use your deep Java, Scala, Python, scripting,
DevOps, and data persistence skills to write and test code that
delivers new features for our application portfolio. You will be an
important part of a motivated team where we’ll be looking for you
to collaborate with the team to contribute to application
architecture, code quality, and make sure we are building the right
things for our users. We want someone that has 4 or more years’
experience in designing and architecting highly scalable, secure,
performant, and usable big data applications using Java, Scala and
Python. The ideal candidate would possess solid skills in big data
technology (Spark and Flink), while having expertise with
orchestration and containerization platforms (Airflow, Docker and
Kubernetes), coupled with hands on persistence and data streaming
technology experience (Databricks, Snowflake, Redis, Kafka). While
The Walt Disney Company is a large company, ideally, we’d like it
if you have some previous experience in a startup environment and
are comfortable performing multiple roles. We strive to get things
done quickly, with high quality, and we are committed to the agile
methodology. Our work is guided by lean principles (looking at
value and looking for waste; not doing anything ‘for the sake of
doing it’). We’re looking for a passionate, impactful, technical
contributor who wants to come here to do their very best work and
make their mark, add their chapter to the long and storied history
of The Walt Disney Company. Someone who holds themselves and their
teammates accountable in a professional, collaborative manner. A
collaborative 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.
Responsibilities and Duties of the Role: Build components of
large-scale data platform for real-time and batch processing, and
own features of big data applications to fit evolving business
needs Build next-gen cloud based big data infrastructure for batch
and streaming data applications, and continuously improve
performance, scalability and availability Contribute to the best
engineering practices, including the use of design patterns, CI/CD,
code review and automated test Chip in ground-breaking innovation
and apply the state-of-the-art technologies As a key member of the
team, contribute to all aspects of the software lifecycle: design,
experimentation, implementation and testing Collaborate with team
to develop software architectures which are robust, fault-tolerant,
and cloud-native Possess AWS managed service solution design and
implementation experience Reason logically and creatively,
identifying problems, drawing valid conclusions from the data
available, and develop effective solutions while applying creative
thinking in the design and development of high performing data
applications Collaborate with fellow engineers to keep the team’s
technology radar and architecture principles aligned to the
industry and needs of our users Deliver multiple projects utilizing
an Agile methodology Take a high ownership, self-sufficient,
hands-on position on the team to collaborate and drive quality,
maintain application stability Write complex programs, analyze code
changes and suggest improvements Check-in valuable, clean code on a
daily basis that adds new features and capabilities Investigate and
resolve any production issues from end user to persistence layer
and work to prevent them Work with leads, product managers and
managers to ensure that all project deliverables are on time and
high quality Work collaboratively with other service teams Required
Education, Experience/Skills/Training: Basic Qualifications Hold a
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Information
Systems, Engineering, or another technical field Have 5 years of
experience in big data application development in a large
enterprise environment using Java, Scala, Python, including
familiarity with modern frameworks and platforms (e.g., Spark,
Flink, Singlestore, Kafka, Nifi and AWS big data technologies) Be
able to demonstrate experience working with relational databases,
SQL and newer NoSQL data stores as well as event streaming
platforms Demonstrated ability with cloud infrastructure
technologies, including Terraform, K8S, Spinnaker, IAM, ALB, etc.
Have a strong interest in open source technology Knowledge of
building highly available and scalable services Passion about
technologies and openness to interdisciplinary work Possess good
communication skills and enjoy helping others to succeed as a team
Care about your craft and have opinions about the “right” way to do
things with technology Preferred Qualifications Master's degree in
Computer Science, Software Engineering or related technical
discipline is desirable Previous work experience in advertising
industry-based applications Experience with Databricks, Snowflake,
Presto, Kinesis Experience working with vendor teams to deliver
high quality results Knowledge of performance testing and
application profiling Strong curiosity about how Disney delivers
the Magic and a desire to be a part of it DISNEYTECH The hiring
range for this position in Glendale, California is $141,900 to
$190,300 per year and in San Francisco, CA is $155,400 to $208,400
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: Ad
Platforms Job Posting Primary Business: AP - Software Engineering
Primary Job Posting Category: Software Engineer Employment Type:
Full time Primary City, State, Region, Postal Code: Glendale, CA,
USA Alternate City, State, Region, Postal Code: USA - CA - Market
St Date Posted: 2026-02-19
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