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:

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.

Job Summary:

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 is a distributed devops team focused on synthesizing complex cloud-first tooling into a friendly developer experience.  We own tools used to build, test, deploy, and monitor Disney Streaming’s web-based products including Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+. As part of this team, you will be responsible for delivering what aims to be the largest media streaming platform in the world. We work on Macbooks and rely heavily on containerization and cloud services.

The right person for this role is an empathetic helper with a passion for elegant solutions to difficult problems. We are looking for fast learners who understand enterprise scale and have a commitment to site reliability. You will be surrounded by colleagues eager to help you succeed and be part of an ambitious, high performing, rewarding culture! Our team encourages experimentation and embraces productive failure.

Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:

The web infrastructure engineer works with a diverse set of technologies to facilitate the release of web applications into production. In this role you will,

• Collaborate with application developers, project managers, test engineers, sysadmins, AWS support engineers, and software vendors.

• Stitch together internal tools into a cohesive, easily understandable CI/CD system.

• Own automation that builds and runs code from multiple locations to create artifacts that are analyzed, tested, published, deployed continuously, and consumed by millions of users around the world.

•   Monitor production infrastructure and perform root cause error analysis

• Implement integrations with enterprise apps like Artifactory, Datadog, New Relic, Spinnaker

•  Support application developers and evangelize cloud-first best practices

Required Education, Experience/Skills/Training:

Basic Qualification:

• Minimum of 3 years of related technical experience

• Familiarity with devops concepts like performance monitoring, autoscaling, failover, redundancy, traffic analysis, etc

• Knowledge/experience with AWS products and services.

• Knowledge/experience with CI systems such as Jenkins or GitHub Actions

• Expertise in the following: Docker, NodeJS, Typescript, Bash, Groovy

• Deep interest in applying technology to complex, distributed systems.

• Ability to write documentation and communicate technical topics with clarity  

Preferred qualification:

• Proficiency in developing Jenkins shared libraries

• Experience developing GitHub automations

• Track record of deploying and operating geographically distributed, highly available services

• Experience with artifact repositories (e.g. Artifactory, ECR)

• Experience with code scanning systems (e.g. SonarQube, Checkmarx, Snyk)

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

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The hiring range for this position in New York, NY is $120,300.00 - $161,300.00 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.