Sr Software Engineer I

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:

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.

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 Sr Product Development Engineer I to support and maintain the cloud infrastructure that powers Disney’s Ad Technology data platforms. This role is focused on the day-to-day stability and performance of systems running Airflow (MWAA), Spark, Flink (on EKS), and Databricks in AWS. You’ll be hands-on in responding to incidents, troubleshooting issues, maintaining infrastructure, and implementing improvements that enhance reliability and efficiency. This is a great opportunity for an experienced engineer who thrives in production environments, enjoys solving complex infrastructure challenges, and is passionate about ensuring the stability of the platforms that drive Disney’s advertising workflows.

Responsibilities:

• Hands-on Platform Support: Provide direct support for production EKS workloads, CI/CD pipelines, and AWS infrastructure.

• Infrastructure Automation: Build and maintain Terraform modules, scripts, and monitoring tools to support platform operations diagnostics, pod health, and deployment issues.

• Troubleshooting & Root Cause Analysis: Respond to issues in EKS, Istio, and CI/CD systems, supporting recovery and documenting resolution.

• Collaboration & Delivery: Partner with application and DevOps teams on shared projects, onboarding, and delivery tasks.

• Documentation & Standards: Contribute to operational runbooks, infrastructure standards, and best practices for platform reliability.

Basic Qualifications:

• 6+ years of experience in infrastructure, platform engineering, or DevOps roles

• Background in data systems support

• Solid operational experience with AWS infrastructure (IAM, VPC, EKS, ALB/NLB).

• Hands-on knowledge of Data infrastructure platforms, MWAA, Databricks, running Spark and Flink on Kubernetes in production environments.

• Experience supporting CI/CD platforms such as Jenkins and Spinnaker, including pipeline troubleshooting.

• Familiarity with cloud security and networking concepts relevant to EKS, including IAM, TLS, VPCs, DNS, and service-to-service access.

• Strong collaboration and solid communication skills, with the ability to align across distributed engineering teams.

• Working knowledge of infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) and scripting languages (Python, Go, etc.)

• Experience participating in on-call rotations or incident resolution processes across globally distributed teams

• Experience participating in high-severity incidents and driving root cause resolution across globally distributed teams

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience supporting data engineering cloud-based workloads using Spark and Flink

• Exposure to Azure or GCP alongside AWS

• Experience with Datadog, Prometheus, or similar observability tools

• Exposure to regulated environments (SOX, CCPA) or large-scale production support

• Experience in support tooling, automation, and AIOps concepts

• Familiarity with cost optimization and usage monitoring in AWS and Databricks

Required Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field (or equivalent experience).

This position is with Disney (India) Private Limited, which is part of a business we call Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology.

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