Senior, Software Engineer

BUILD SOMETHING BIGGER THAN YOURSELF 

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.  

How you will contribute to our magical experience?: 

Product Engineering is a unified team responsible for the engineering of Disney Entertainment & ESPN digital and streaming products and platforms. This includes product engineering, media engineering, quality assurance, engineering behind personalization, commerce, lifecycle, and identity. 

This team is responsible for building out the tools used by our operator teams to provide quality control (QC) to highly visible live and video-on-demand media workflows, implementing playback features, and ensuring seamless integration to operator tooling so that operators are able to ensure the highest quality experience possible for our customers. 

The Senior, Software Engineer will be responsible for: 

• Implement new developmental features on our purposely built player to support the evolved A/V QC ecosystem. 
• Lead design, architecture, and development of the native playback clients (iOS, Android, Roku).
• Drive technical execution and system integration across device teams, backend engineers, and product stakeholders.
• Collaborate with product, UX, and QC operations teams to ensure tools meet usability and operational needs.
• Lead debugging and resolution of complex media playback and device-specific issues.
• Champion CI/CD processes and maintain robust testing and monitoring infrastructure.
• Collaborate with application development teams, services engineering teams and product management to help understand and explain device limitations and requirements.
• Mentor engineers across web and native teams, fostering best practices in media playback, streaming protocols, and secure content workflows.
• Provide on-call rotational support as needed.

What we need from you to be part of this story:

• 4+ years of experience building production-grade playback systems across platforms
• BS or MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• Advanced level in English.
• Deep knowledge of media streaming formats (HLS, CMAF, MPEG-DASH).
• Experience with Swift, AVFoundation, FairPlay integration, Kotlin/Java, ExoPlayer, Widevine DRM, BrightScript, SceneGraph, Roku SDK best practices.
• Extensive experience in Object Oriented Programming.
• Desire to work in a start-up, fast-growth, or rapid-change environment.
• Problem-solving skills to identify the root cause.
• Understanding of agile methodologies and git source control.
• Experience with Unity or RealityKit. 
• Experience integrating media players into web applications.
• Understanding of async programming models (events, callbacks, promises, async/await) and threading/concurrency.
• Understanding of source control concepts and systems, CI/CD pipelines and exposure to GitHub.
• Experience with build and deployment technologies such as Jenkins and Docker.
• Experience with messaging technologies (e.g., Kafka, Kinesis, SQS, etc.).
• Experience in Streaming technologies (is a plus).

Additional Information: 

At Disney, we believe it takes great people to create the memorable experiences, products and services our consumers know and love. We are a team of storytellers and hire under equal opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, disability and gender identity. We foster a corporate culture of belonging and inclusiveness, which empowers our staff and company to thrive. At Disney, everyone has the opportunity to speak up and participate, grow and share ideas.

“You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.” Walt Disney