Sr Software Engineer
Postuler maintenant Postuler ultérieurement Job ID 10142545 Emplacement Seattle, Washington, États-Unis / Santa Monica, Californie, États-Unis / San Francisco, Californie, États-Unis Entreprise Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology Date de publication 18/02/2026Résumé du poste:
Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology
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.
DEET Messaging Platform Engineering team
This role is on our DEET Messaging Platform Engineering team. Our mission is to empower personalized experiences and data that drive engagement, revenue, growth, customer delight and brand trust for all of The Walt Disney Company. Our product, the Unified Messaging Platform, helps us keep our guests informed and engaged with content, experiences and brands as diverse as Star Wars, Marvel, Pixar, ABC, ESPN, and NatGeo.
Job Summary:
The Messaging Platform at Disney Streaming powers all communications to users across Disney+, Hulu, ESPN+, and Star+. With the volume of users across these streaming applications, our team is uniquely positioned to design, build, and maintain a feature-rich robust platform that scales for high volumes of traffic. Our platform consists of Java systems fully deployed in AWS across multiple regions, leveraging modern tools and design principles.
Emails, push notifications, in-app messages, and SMS texts originate without our platform to support critical user flows, standard business operations, and marketing/promotional campaigns. At the highest level, our Messaging domain includes message template creation/management, hydrating messages with static and dynamic content per recipient, the delivery of messages, and exposing the lifecycle of each message so that other teams can understand the effectiveness of the communications they trigger through our platform.
The Messaging Routing & Insights squad is looking for an enthusiastic team player to fill our senior software engineer role. You will collaborate with experienced engineers on cutting-edge solutions, making major enhancements to our multi-region, multi-tenant core messaging platform to enable other Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology engineering teams to build solutions that send messages via email, push notification, SMS and in-app experiences. You will be involved in designing, building, launching and evolving a unified messaging platform that will encapsulate the very best of TWDC.
Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:
Build and maintain product-driven initiatives to improve and expand the Unified Messaging Platform, Enhance/improve the underlying codebase to be extensible, reusable, and maintainable. Actively participate in code reviews, offering constructive feedback to improve code quality, system reliability, and performance
Lead the design & enhancement of critical services in UMP, ensuring scalability, performance, and reliability. Research and integrate new technologies into the production environment to optimize core service offerings. Collaborate with your squad, Product Managers, Designers, QA, Operations, and other stakeholders to understand requirements and articulate technical decisions and outcomes.
Promote team support activities such as participating in regular Agile/Scrum ceremonies such as stand-up, retrospectives and sprint planning; provide technical guidance to junior team members, covering code quality, system design, and best practices in software development.
Scheduled on-call duty
Required Education, Experience/Skills/Training:
Basic Qualifications
5+ years of experience building internet-scale web or services applications
Experience in a Java and/or alternative JVM application development environments (Scala/Kotlin)
Familiarity with the AWS environment (awareness of ECS (Docker), S3, EC2, Lambda, CloudWatch, etc)
Solid understanding with software development fundamentals
Proficiency with writing unit, integration and functional tests
Experience with Relational and NoSQL Databases like Postgres, MySql, DynamoDB, Cassandra
Proficiency with standard CI/CD procedures & tools like Jenkins, Github Actions, Spinnaker
Familiarity with service APIs and/or SDKs
Understanding of agile processes, software version control & project management tools (e.g. Github, SVN, Jira, Basecamp)
Preferred Qualifications
Experience or certification with AWS services, including S3, SQS, SNS, Kinesis, Lambda, CloudWatch, or other cloud platforms (Azure, GCP)
Familiarity with big data technologies & tools like Spark, Databricks, EMR
Familiarity with Terraform or other infrastructure as code tooling
Experience building scalable, fault-tolerant, high-uptime systems
Creative and inventive problem solving
Desire and initiative to mentor other developers
Bonus Qualifications
Experience with SES or Salesforce Marketing Cloud
Experience with Serverless solutions
Familiarity with the Scala programming language and the Python programming language
Required Education
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience.
Minimum of 5+ years related work experience
The hiring range for this position in Seattle, WA is $148,700 to $199,400 per year, Santa Monica, CA is $141,900.00 to $190,300.00 and in San Francisco, CA is $155,400.00 to $208,400.00 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 Streaming Technology LLC , qui fait partie d’une entreprise que nous appelons Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology.
Disney Streaming Technology 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.