Sr Principal Site Reliability Engineer
Postuler maintenant Postuler ultérieurement Job ID 10144162 Emplacement San Francisco, Californie, États-Unis Entreprise Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology Date de publication 07/04/2026Résumé du poste:
P5/P6: SRE Lead, Content Distribution Engineering
Media Engineering. SF CA / LA CA / NYC
Team Intro
On any given day at Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology, we’re reimagining ways to create magical viewing experiences for the world’s most beloved stories while also transforming Disney’s media business for the future. Whether that’s evolving our streaming and digital products in new and immersive ways, powering worldwide advertising and distribution to maximize flexibility and efficiency, or delivering Disney’s unmatched entertainment and sports content, every day is a moment to make a difference to partners and to hundreds of millions of people around the world.
A few reasons why we think you’d love working for Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology
- Building the future of Disney’s media business: DE&E Technologists are designing and building the infrastructure that will power Disney’s media, advertising, and distribution businesses for years to come.
- Reach & Scale: The products and platforms this group builds and operates delight millions of consumers every minute of every day – from Disney+ and Hulu, to ABC News and Entertainment, to ESPN and ESPN+, and much more.
- Innovation: We develop and execute groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms and enhance how audiences experience sports, entertainment & news.
Media Engineering is an innovative organization that is focused on providing the best possible video playback experience, art, and metadata to customers around the world, powered by exceptional technology. This strategic work requires streamlining and repurposing technology across different business and distribution channels – including streaming, linear, and theatrical – so that technology can ebb and flow across the needs of the business.
Job Description
This role will report to the Senior Vice President of Media Engineering, with a scope spanning several departments and hundreds of developers and operators. You will drive high-availability with an ultimate goal of 99.999% incident-free uptime across the entire platform. You will ensure fast response, proactive prevention, effective monitoring, and sound architectural design.
- Accountable for platform stability and uptime, from processing platform and content supply chain through CDN delivery and playback.
- Develop solid understanding of all critical data flows and ensure proper instrumentation and alerting practices.
- Drive redundancy and resiliency strategy across thousands of servers, network links, in both datacenter and cloud environments.
- Responsible for Media Engineering’s Incident Response process and ensuring follow-ups and proactive actions to avoid service incidents.
- Partner with Infrastructure, Operations, Product, and Development teams to ensure best-practices, conducting audits and reviews across each domain.
- Drive automation strategy for more rapid safe releases, tighter content SLAs, and a more efficient organization.
Minimum Qualifications
- Minimum of 12 years of engineering leadership experience, including managing and influencing teams directly and indirectly
- Bachelors or higher degree in Engineering or a related field, or equiv experience.
- Experience working across complex globally connected teams with a variety of stakeholders
- Experience with large-scale globally distributed platforms including content preparation, distribution, playback, operations, and infrastructure
- Possess a vision for exceptional escalation management and engineering excellence.
- Ability to develop and implement and socialize strategies and tactics to drive improvement in stability, system performance, team capability, and operational efficiency.
- Knowledge of how to use data to understand and improve business performance.
- Passion for developing teams, with a focus on continuous learning.
- Track record of developing strong cross-functional and cross-regional relationships.
Preferred Qualifications
Direct experience with major Content Delivery Network integrations
- Experience in media streaming technologies, especially media processing workflows and tooling, media players and devices, and content delivery strategies.
- Experience with both high-scale back-end services (cloud and datacenter) along with client development on a variety of devices (mobile, web, living room devices).
- Experience with Media Operations and/or Infrastructure management
The hiring range for this position in San Francisco is $250,500 - $335,900 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.
Sur Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology:
Chez Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology, nous allions imagination et innovation pour réinventer la manière dont les gens vivent et interagissent avec les histoires et les produits les plus appréciés au monde. Notre travail est extrêmement vaste et complexe. Nous créons des expériences incroyables, transformons l’avenir des médias et créons des produits et des plateformes qui rapprochent les gens du monde entier des histoires et des sports qu’ils aiment.
Chez Disney, notre capacité à associer une technologie de classe mondiale à une créativité sans pareille nous rend uniques. C’est l’essence même de notre passé, de notre présent et de notre avenir. Nous sommes des narrateurs et des innovateurs. Des créateurs et des bâtisseurs. Des artistes et des ingénieurs.
Sur The Walt Disney Company:
The Walt Disney Company, ainsi que ses filiales et sociétés affiliées, forme l’une des principales entreprises internationales diversifiées de divertissement familial et de médias. Elle comprend trois secteurs d'activités essentiels : Disney Entertainment, ESPN et Disney Experiences. Depuis ses modestes débuts en tant que studio de dessins animés dans les années 1920 jusqu’à son statut de référence actuel dans le secteur du divertissement, Disney poursuit fièrement sa tradition de création d’histoires et d’expériences exceptionnelles pour tous les membres de la famille. Les histoires, les personnages et les expériences de Disney touchent les consommateurs et les visiteurs du monde entier. À travers nos activités présentes dans plus de 40 pays, nos employés et cast members collaborent pour créer des expériences de divertissement appréciées à la fois au niveau universel et local.
Le poste est rattaché à Disney Entertainment & Sports LLC , qui fait partie d’une entreprise que nous appelons Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology.
Disney Entertainment & Sports LLC est un employeur qui souscrit au principe d’égalité des chances à l’emploi. Les candidat(e)s seront pris(es) en considération pour un emploi sans distinction de race, de religion, de couleur, de sexe, d’orientation sexuelle, de genre, d’identité de genre, d’expression de genre, d’origine nationale, d’ascendance, d’âge, d’état matrimonial, de statut militaire ou d’ancien combattant, d’état de santé, d’informations génétiques ou de handicap, ou de tout autre motif interdit par la loi fédérale, étatique ou locale. Disney défend un environnement commercial où les idées et décisions de tous et toutes nous aident à grandir, innover, créer les meilleures histoires et être pertinents dans un monde en évolution constante.