Job Posting Title:

Senior Media Systems Engineer

Req ID:

10134556

Job Description:

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:

Disney Media Systems Engineers have a clear charter: to transform the capability and flexibility of how Disney acquires, produces, and distributes content worldwide, all while ensuring the highest levels of quality, efficiency, and resiliency.

Disney Media Systems Engineers often find themselves at the crossroads between hardware and software-based technology and must possess a comprehensive theoretical and practical understanding of the technology that powers the generation, monetization, and distribution of all forms of consumer- facing linear and digital video/audio content.

Responsibility includes numerous systems such as Playout Technology, Studios, Production Control Rooms, Remote Production, Post-Production, Contribution/Distribution Systems, Networking, Cloud Compute, Production Software and Virtual Environment and more. The Sr. Media Systems Engineer acts as a technical leader and is responsible for the design and implementation working closely with management and Executive Leadership to make recommendations and advance Disney’s technical posture.

The Media Systems Engineer will work with vendors and industry trade organizations to define and evolve industry standards, solutions that impact our business. The Sr. Media Systems Engineer will lead and own all aspects of the design and build of Disney’s most impactful projects and will leverage their experience to create documentation, procedures, and standards that drive all our technological development.

Responsibilities

• Responsible and play lead role for technical implementation of traditional broadcast production systems and cloud -based infrastructure that support content acquisition, production, encoding, decoding, and content distribution across multiple DE&E Technology networks (linear, digital, and streaming platforms).
• Take lead role on projects to modernize our legacy media production infrastructure systems to make way for advancements such as SMPTE ST 2110, 4K, UHD HDR, JPEGxs, NDI, ProRes Raw, H.265, AV1, including multi resolution support across broadcast facilities (720p/1080/4K/UHD/HDR), metadata conversion, audio mapping, system outages, microservices architecture tunning and related technical problems.
• Take lead role and coordinate the construction of facilities, upgrades and the installation of equipment including core routing, intercom, playout, distribution systems, non-linear edit systems, graphics, video servers, storage solutions, file acquisition, file transcode, file transfer, media asset management and automation systems. Collaborate closely with installation engineers, equipment manufacturers, vendors, technical operations staff, and others involved in the projects.
• Collaborate closely with DE&ET and operations’ management to assess facility needs. Develops project plans, schedules, and capital planning, forecasting and estimations. Collaborates closely with equipment manufacturers and vendors to understand the range of equipment that might be relevant to support broadcasting facilities and operations.

Basic Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of broadcast engineering experience
• Bachelor’s or Master's Degree in Engineering or Computer Science, or comparable field of study and/or equivalent work experience
• Strong understanding of baseband/IP video, audio and digital compression, transport systems, audio/video encoding/transcoding techniques and formats.
• Knowledge of file transfer acceleration technologies and techniques.

Preferred Qualifications

• Proficiency in AutoCAD
• Working knowledge of DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP, HTTP, UDP, SSL, and SNMP.
• Excellent communication and organizational skills
• Proficiency in at least one of the following languages: Perl, Python, Ruby, Shell, C or C++.
• Familiar with SMPTE standards for broadcast television and video production/streaming environments with a current certification such as not limited to ST 292M, ST 424M, ST 2110, ST 2059, IEE1588, ST 2022-7, SCTE-104, etc.
• Knowledge and experience with on-prem and cloud-based storage and compute infrastructure platforms and current technological offerings. File-based workflows like enterprise Media Asset Management systems (Cloud-based Cloud Compute or Local Network-based) including storage, compute, encode and distribution.
• Knowledge and experience with compression techniques such as MPEG2/4, HEVC, JPEG 2000, and JPEG XS.
• Knowledge and experience with major media systems and the vendors that supply them in areas such as signal routing infrastructure, intercom, playout, asset management systems, file-based workflows, media acquisition, transcoding/encoding, graphics, and NAS/SAN technologies.

DISNEYTECH

Job Posting Segment:

CPO - Live Ops & Engineering

Job Posting Primary Business:

CPO - Live Ops & Engineering - Media Systems Engineering

Primary Job Posting Category:

Media Systems Engineering

Employment Type:

Full time

Primary City, State, Region, Postal Code:

Bristol, CT, USA

Alternate City, State, Region, Postal Code:

Date Posted:

2025-10-21

Job Posting Title:

Sr Software Engineer

Req ID:

10135205

Job Description:

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.

Content Platforms & Operations is responsible for the development and ongoing advancement of the technical and operational functions driving the worldwide distribution and monetization of Disney’s linear networks and theatrical content. This includes Disney’s media supply chain and storage, network and theatrical distribution operations, media localization, network transmission and origination, and more. The global team also plays a critical role as the primary collaboration point for Product & Technology with Disney’s EMEA, APAC, and LATAM regional business teams.

Role Overview

Content Platform Engineering is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to help build and innovate a world class content platform to support content delivery for brands such as Disney plus, ESPN+, Hulu, ABC, Marvel and Star Wars. Our team of talented software engineers builds and manages a diverse suite of products and services that advance Disney’s media supply chain powering the some of the most watched entertainment content. You will help to define platform capabilities, designing and implementing product solutions using solid design principles, while balancing complexity, speed of implementation, and expandability.

Responsibilities:

You will be building scalable, maintainable, and well-tested software solutions which are flexible to meet the requirements of multiple customers and stakeholders. You will:

• Collaborate with other software engineers and cross-functional teams
• Work independently to design, build, test, and deploy high quality software solutions
• Provide technical guidance and evangelize best practices.
• Maintain a deep understanding of our core systems and how they interact with upstream and downstream dependencies.
• Contribute and review code, set standards, and work with engineers to ensure product and design specifications are met
• Responsible for fundamental platform performance, scalability, and resiliency
• Partner with stakeholders to refine requirements, and propose solutions to problems that span multiple teams
• Contribute to cross-functional troubleshooting of complex issues as needed
• Troubleshoot issues and fix defects
• Mentor junior engineers and conduct code reviews

Basic Qualifications

• BS Computer Science or related technical discipline or its equivalent
• 5+ years related experience designing backend architectures and delivering backend  applications in a production environment.
• Experience with common backend technologies such as Java, GraphQL, REST APIs, microservice architectures, async programming
• Experience with Spring Framework
• Experience with architecture and delivery of high volume, cached, fault tolerant, multi-threaded scalable systems
• Experience with a wide range of data store technologies such as MongoDB, Redis,  Elasticsearch, Postgres, and DynamoDB
• Experience with Cloud-based technologies such as AWS Lambda, EC2, S3, SQS, Step Functions, and Fargate
• Experience with build and deployment technologies such as Docker, Gitlab-CI, Terraform/Cloud formation, and Jenkins
• Experience in Agile/Scrum methodology
• Team player with strong oral and written communications skills
• Motivated self-starter with the ability to learn and adapt to new technologies
• Expertise with full lifecycle of application development, including best practices of unit testing, code reviews, documentation, etc.
• Strong communication skills and attention to detail

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous work experience in media distribution
• Experience working with vendor teams to deliver high quality results
• Knowledge of performance testing and application profiling
• Strong curiosity about how Disney delivers the Magic and a desire to be a part of it
• Expert in Java
• Expert in AWS, Azure, or GCP

DISNEYTECH

The hiring range for this position in Glendale, CA is $136,100 to $182,400 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.

Job Posting Segment:

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology

Job Posting Primary Business:

Content Platforms & Operations

Primary Job Posting Category:

Software Engineer

Employment Type:

Full time

Primary City, State, Region, Postal Code:

Glendale, CA, USA

Alternate City, State, Region, Postal Code:

Date Posted:

2025-11-11

Job Posting Title:

Electrical Technical Operations Manager

Req ID:

10145966

Job Description:

Position Summary

Under the oversight of the Manager Electrical Technical Operations, responsible for all electrical and maintenance aspects of company’s fleet and Island.

Responsibilities

• Assists with departmental budgets for areas of responsibilities.
• Liaison with USCG, classification societies,, and USPH for areas of responsibility.
• Oversees compliance with technical aspects of applicable Flag State, Port State, international, and classification society resolutions and requirements, including CSM.
• Oversees maintenance of specified ships and private resorts and proper documentation in company-approved maintenance system.
• Provides the continuous availability ashore for shipboard support for Electrical Systems, Machinery Alarm and Control Systems, Navigation Equipment and Telecommunication Systems.
• Manages vendors, onboard teams and installation technicians to see that Company standards are maintained during installation or repair of system components in area of responsibility.
• Maintains Electrical and related operational standards for the Engineering department.
• Sees that corrective and preventive action is taken on issues within area of responsibility.
• Maintains shore-based library of technical information about each vessel in the fleet.
• Carries out ship walks including Vessel Assessments and SQS Architectural Lighting.
• Approves, maintains and verifies compliance with LOG policies and procedures in onboard departments for which responsible.

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Safety Management System (SMS) Responsibilities:

• Implementation of the general safety management responsibilities in SMS.
• Responsible for implementing Safety Management System policies and procedures relative to areas of responsibilities. Makes sure the operating procedures pertaining to both shipboard and shore-based Technical operating practices are in place and functioning in compliance with the SMS.
• Responsible for Maintenance and repairs of Satellite Systems throughout the Disney Cruise Line® Fleet.
• Provides shore-based assistance for Masters and their Officers to maintain safe ship operations.
• Maintains regular communication with Chief Engineers and Chief Electrical Engineers on issues within area of responsibility.
• Run monthly status reports on overdue maintenance including key equipment.
• Coordinates with Marine Operations ongoing and planned matters relevant to Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS) and other radio communications.
• Coordinated with Marine Nautical Operations ongoing and planned matters relevant to Electronic aids to Navigation.
• Provide technical support to Entertainment, Disney Cruise Line Telecom, Disney Cruise Line Technology, Safety, Security and Environmental Policy and Compliance.
• Supports dry-docks for marine and technical machinery control systems.
• Participates in Monthly Meetings for key equipment vendors
• Assists and keeps the Executive Director Technical Operations and Senior Manager Electrical Technical Operations informed of ongoing and planned matters relevant to issues and materials in the SMS.

Required Qualifications

• At least five years of experience in sea‑going operations and/or ship management within marine or industrial engineering.
• Demonstrated experience with Hazardous areas installations and operations.
• Strong understanding of electrical distribution, control systems, and automation including maintenance practices.
• Experience interpreting and applying Flag State, Port State, classification society, and international maritime regulations.
• Ability to manage vendors, contractors, and technical teams.
• Excellent troubleshooting and diagnostic skills for shipboard electrical, navigation, and telecommunication systems.
• Strong communication skills with ability to interface with shipboard and shoreside stakeholders
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally as needed, including supporting dry‑docks and vessel inspections.
• Proficiency with maintenance management systems (e.g., CMMS).
• Strong documentation and compliance reporting skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience working within the cruise industry.
• Professional training in maritime Regulations.

Education

• Relevant Electrical Engineering Degree; or equivalent working experience.

Job Posting Segment:

DCL Shoreside

Job Posting Primary Business:

DCL Operations

Primary Job Posting Category:

Electrical Equipment Engineering

Employment Type:

Full time

Primary City, State, Region, Postal Code:

Celebration, FL, USA

Alternate City, State, Region, Postal Code:

Date Posted:

2026-03-31

Job Posting Title:

Senior Manager, Software Development Engineer in Test

Req ID:

10143813

Job Description:

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.

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.

Job Summary:

The DEEP&T team is seeking a highly experienced Senior Manager to lead and scale our Quality Engineering organization supporting various commerce, data and advertising systems. In this role, you will provide strategic, operational, and technical leadership across multiple quality engineering teams, ensuring robust test automation, reliability, and business impact at scale. You will develop and execute a quality strategy that drives measurable improvement in system reliability, speed of delivery, and product excellence, partnering closely with executives, engineering leadership, and cross-functional business units. Ideal candidates are visionary people leaders with a proven track record of growing high-performing teams, implementing transformational quality programs, and delivering significant value in complex and rapidly evolving environments.

Responsibilities:

Organizational Leadership & Transformation

• Lead, inspire, and develop multiple quality engineering teams and people leaders (managers/technical leads), fostering a culture of technical excellence, inclusion, and continuous learning.
• Define the multi-year vision and strategic roadmap for quality engineering across the advertising platform, aligned with company business and technology goals.
• Champion organizational transformation, driving the adoption of best-in-class practices, tools, and quality metrics at scale.

Technical Thought Leadership

• Set the technical direction for large-scale test automation architecture, cloud-native solutions, and intelligent testing initiatives (AI/ML-driven testing, autonomous pipelines, etc.).
• Sponsor and guide the evolution of shared automation frameworks, tools, and platforms across product and engineering teams.
• Ensure timely resolution and prevention of high-severity outages through organizational postmortems, root cause analysis, and systemic improvements.

Strategic Planning & Execution

• Develop, communicate, and execute the quality engineering strategy across multiple product groups, balancing innovation, risk, and operational needs.
• Oversee resource planning, hiring, and organizational design to ensure scaling and allocation of quality engineering talent to meet evolving business needs.
• Take ultimate responsibility for quality governance, compliance, and traceability across all product lines within your scope.

Cross-Functional & Executive Partnership

• Build and maintain strong working relationships with senior leadership in engineering, product management, data science, product operations, and business teams.
• Articulate quality risks, trade-offs, and long-term strategies to executive stakeholders; provide regular reporting on quality metrics and organizational outcomes.
• Lead cross-functional initiatives to ensure test automation and quality engineering are embedded early and effectively throughout the development lifecycle.

Basic Qualifications:

• 10+ years of experience in software quality engineering, test automation, or software development, with 5+ years managing managers or leading multi-team organizations
• Proven track record of scaling and transforming quality engineering functions in complex, cloud-native, high-scale environments
• Demonstrated experience defining and driving organizational strategy, advocating for quality at the senior/executive level, and influencing business outcomes
• Expertise in modern test automation frameworks, CI/CD, and emerging trends in software quality
• Knowledge of software engineering practices and agile approaches
• Strong desire for establishing and improving product quality
• Experience conducting security and performance tests for identity and access management systems and platforms
• Hands on experience testing (manual and automated) identity and access management systems and platforms
• Advanced proficiency with Python or modern OO languages; experience with ad-tech or large-scale systems is a plus
• Willingness to take challenges head on while being part of a team
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, and mentoring skills
• B.S. in Computer Science (or equivalent degree or work experience)

Job Posting Segment:

PE - Sports, News & Entertainment, Enablement

Job Posting Primary Business:

PE - Sports, News & Entertainment, Enablement - Streaming, Media, Content

Primary Job Posting Category:

Quality Assurance Engineering

Employment Type:

Full time

Primary City, State, Region, Postal Code:

Morrisville, NC, USA

Alternate City, State, Region, Postal Code:

Date Posted:

2026-03-18

Job Posting Title:

Software Engineer II

Req ID:

10141286

Job Description:

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.

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.

Job Summary:

Sitting inside the Product Engineering team, the Client-Data team plays a pivotal role in bridging the data requirements between our diverse portfolio of front-end applications, and engineering services teams. Our work encompasses the application of software engineering, machine learning and data science at scale, addressing challenges such as platform health monitoring and ongoing performance tracking for new application releases. We collaborate closely with stakeholders to validate product specifications, ensuring clarity and precision, while also synchronizing data-related decisions, instrumentation, and metrics across various platforms. Day to day tasks impact many aspects of the business, such as monitoring application engagement or tracking anomalous usage patterns.

Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:

• Create and maintain optimal data pipeline architecture
• Algorithm Development and Maintenance
• Develop Best Practices and Documentation
• Perform data analysis and data science projects for stakeholders

Required Education, Experience/Skills/Training:

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of software engineering, machine learning or data science experience
• Experience with big data tools including Databricks, Snowflake, or similar.
• Knowledge of systems applications, server architecture, cloud technologies, and web applications.
• Experience working cross-functionally with teams of different levels of expertise
• Service Reliability/Operational experience running large scale high-performance systems & Internet services
• Ability to write and maintain reliable and understandable code in SQL, Python, Scala, or other languages.

Preferred Qualifications

Familiarity with the end-to-end data lifecycle: from client-side event generation to backend processing and consumption by Data Science models.

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

The hiring range for this position in New York City is $123,000 - $165,000 per year and in San Francisco, CA is $128,700 - $172,500 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.

Job Posting Segment:

PE - Streaming Frontend

Job Posting Primary Business:

PE - Streaming Frontend - Disney+, Web & LRD

Primary Job Posting Category:

Software Engineer

Employment Type:

Full time

Primary City, State, Region, Postal Code:

New York, NY, USA

Alternate City, State, Region, Postal Code:

USA - CA - Market St

Date Posted:

2026-01-28

Job Posting Title:

Security Engineer - Security Architecture and Engineering

Req ID:

10137015

Job Description:

Department Description:

At Disney, we’re storytellers. We make the impossible, possible. The Walt Disney Company (TWDC) is a world-class entertainment and technological leader. Walt’s passion was to continually envision new ways to move audiences around the world—a passion that remains our touchstone in an enterprise that spans theme parks and resorts, a cruise line, sports, news, movies, and a variety of other businesses. Uniting each endeavor is a commitment to creating and delivering unforgettable experiences — and we’re constantly looking for new ways to enhance these exciting experiences.

The Enterprise Technology mission is to deliver technology solutions that align with business strategies, enable enterprise efficiency, and promote cross-company collaborative innovation. Our group drives competitive advantage by enhancing our consumer experiences, enabling business growth, and advancing operational excellence.

The Global Information Security (GIS) organization strives to secure the magic by employing best-in-class services to assess, prevent, detect, and respond to cyber threats that present risk to The Walt Disney Company. We enable the business by integrating enterprise and business segment-specific supported services to create a robust, efficient, and adaptable cybersecurity program. Our key objectives are to:

• Secure the magic by protecting information systems and platforms.
• Reduce risk by proactively assessing, preventing, and detecting threats to the Company and our Guests.
• Strengthen the business through optimizing execution, application, and technology used to protect the Company.
• Innovate by investing in core capabilities to enhance security posture and operational efficiency.

Team Description:

The GIS Security Architecture and Engineering team is Disney’s trusted authority in security architecture, solution engineering, and secure product delivery. We provide innovative, standards-based capabilities and exceptional services that evolve with our clients’ needs—ensuring protection, agility, and peace of mind across the enterprise. We empower transformational innovation by designing and implementing scalable security architectures and frameworks that enhance resiliency, enable agility, and safeguard Disney’s global technology ecosystem.

Our work protects the integrity of Disney’s storytelling, experiences, and operations—reducing risk, enabling agility, and ensuring resilience in a rapidly evolving threat landscape.

What You’ll Do:

The Security Engineer – Architecture & Engineering will:

• Design and drive secure architecture solutions that protect Disney’s global technology ecosystem, developing reference architectures and patterns that scale across applications, cloud platforms, and enterprise services.
• Lead and influence secure design decisions by partnering with engineers, architects, and business stakeholders to embed security early in the solution lifecycle using secure-by-design and secure-by-default principles.
• Evaluate emerging cybersecurity technologies through Disney’s Security Solution Review Process, conducting deep technical assessments and shaping enterprise adoption strategies for next-generation capabilities.
• Assess and secure AI/ML implementations across the enterprise, performing risk-based evaluations to identify threats such as model manipulation, data leakage, and adversarial attacks, and recommending practical mitigation strategies.
• Conduct advanced threat modeling and architecture risk assessments, leveraging internal incident data and external threat intelligence to proactively identify gaps and strengthen enterprise defenses.
• Identify capability gaps in existing security architectures and design forward-looking solutions that address evolving threats, including Zero Trust Architecture, cloud-native security, and distributed system protection.
• Develop and maintain enterprise security configuration standards, establishing secure baselines that enable consistent, scalable protection across infrastructure, platforms, and applications.
• Translate complex cybersecurity risks into clear, actionable guidance, enabling business and engineering teams to make informed, risk-based decisions that balance security, usability, and speed.
• Lead or contribute to high-impact security initiatives and strategic projects that reduce enterprise risk, improve security maturity, and enable innovation across Disney’s diverse business segments.
• Create and evolve reusable security artifacts such as reference architectures, control frameworks, and engineering patterns that drive consistency and efficiency across the organization.
• Collaborate across enterprise teams to track, prioritize, and remediate risks, ensuring alignment between security strategy, engineering execution, and business objectives.
• Support governance and compliance efforts by aligning solutions to industry frameworks (e.g., NIST, CIS, ISO 27001) while maintaining a strong focus on practical, risk-based implementation.
• Document and communicate security decisions, designs, and outcomes to enable transparency, auditability, and knowledge sharing across the enterprise.

Required Qualifications & Skills:

• 3+ years of experience in Security Architecture & Engineering, with demonstrated ability to design and evaluate secure solutions in complex enterprise environments.
• 3+ years of experience securing workloads and services in public cloud environments (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform), including implementing native cloud security controls, identity and access management, and secure configuration of cloud services.
• Experience securing modern cloud-native architectures, including containers, serverless technologies, and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) environments.
• Proven ability to create conceptual, logical, and physical security architecture designs, with a strong understanding of system vulnerabilities, attack paths, and effective countermeasures.
• Experience designing and implementing security controls, including those for information protection, identity and access management (e.g., Kerberos, NTLM, Active Directory), and networking technologies (e.g., routing, switching, SDN, segmentation).
• Strong working knowledge of risk analysis methodologies, with the ability to assess risk and design compensating controls in complex, distributed environments.
• Experience applying threat modeling techniques (e.g., STRIDE, MITRE ATT&CK) to identify risks and inform secure architectural decisions.
• Experience integrating security into the software development lifecycle (SDLC), including CI/CD pipelines and secure-by-design practices.
• Familiarity with leading cybersecurity frameworks and methodologies, such as NIST 800-53, NIST 800-30, MITRE ATT&CK, STRIDE, and relevant regulatory or compliance programs (e.g., SOX, HIPAA, PCI DSS).
• Ability to make risk-based architectural decisions, balancing security, business requirements, cost, and operational constraints.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to translate complex security risks into clear, actionable guidance for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Exposure to emerging technologies and security challenges, such as AI/ML systems, Zero Trust Architecture, and evolving cloud security paradigms.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Hands-on experience across multiple cybersecurity domains, with demonstrated depth in at least two of the following: Identity and Access Management (IAM), cloud and infrastructure security, network security, security operations, security assessment and testing, or secure software development (DevSecOps).
• Experience applying security architecture principles to real-world systems, including aligning security requirements with business objectives and technology strategies (e.g., familiarity with enterprise architecture concepts such as TOGAF or similar frameworks).
• Exposure to securing AI/ML systems or emerging technologies, including awareness of risks such as data leakage, model manipulation, or insecure integrations, and the ability to apply appropriate security controls.
• Relevant industry certifications, such as CISSP, CCSP, AWS Certified Solutions Architect (or Security Specialty), CISM, CRISC, CISA, or GIAC certifications.
• Experience with secure software development and DevSecOps practices, including integrating security into CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code (IaC), and automated testing or validation processes.
• Proficiency in scripting or programming languages (e.g., Python, Java, JavaScript, or similar) to support automation, security tooling, or data analysis.
• Experience evaluating or implementing modern cloud-native architectures, including containers, serverless platforms, and microservices.
• Demonstrated ability to contribute to cross-functional initiatives, working with engineering, architecture, and business teams to drive secure outcomes.

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

DISNEYTECH

The hiring range for this position in Seattle, WA is $112,000 - $150,100 per year and in Burbank, CA is $106,900 - $143,300 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.

Job Posting Segment:

Enterprise Technology and Data

Job Posting Primary Business:

Corporate Global Information Security

Primary Job Posting Category:

Security Engineering

Employment Type:

Full time

Primary City, State, Region, Postal Code:

Burbank, CA, USA

Alternate City, State, Region, Postal Code:

USA - FL - Kirkman Point 1, USA - WA - 925 4th Ave

Date Posted:

2025-11-26

Job Posting Title:

Senior Software Engineer

Req ID:

10135335

Job Description:

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.

Content Platforms & Operations is responsible for the development and ongoing advancement of the technical and operational functions driving the worldwide distribution and monetization of Disney’s linear networks and theatrical content. This includes Disney’s media supply chain and storage, network and theatrical distribution operations, media localization, network transmission and origination, and more. The global team also plays a critical role as the primary collaboration point for Product & Technology with Disney’s EMEA, APAC, and LATAM regional business teams.

Job Summary:

The Content Product & Operations team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer that will drive the design and implementation of our next generation temporal and descriptive metadata tagging platform.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be expected to develop backend solutions in a dynamic, rapidly changing environment using your technical skill sets, working with product managers and team leads to deliver high quality products that are scalable and robust.  You will be expected to work closely on solutions with peers in a cross-functional environment to ensure we are delivering high quality products that align to the larger business initiatives within the digital media supply chain that support Disney’s TV, broadcast, theatrical, and direct –to-consumer lines of business.

Responsibilities:

• Develop, test, & deploy high quality application code.
• Provide technical guidance and evangelize best practices
• Contribute and review code, set standards, and work with engineers to ensure product and design specifications are met
• Responsible for fundamental platform performance, scalability, and resiliency
• Partner with stakeholders to refine requirements, and propose solutions to problems that span multiple teams
• Mentor junior engineers on the team

Basic Qualifications:

• Minimum of 5 years of related software development experience
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience
• Motivated self-starter with the ability to learn and adapt to new technologies.
• Can effectively articulate complex ideas and influence others through well-reasoned explanations
• Enjoy working within a team setting of engineers of varying experience
• Strong communication skills and attention to detail
• Comfortable working in a geographically distributed team.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Previous work experience in temporal and descriptive video tagging/ad marking
• Knowledge of performance testing, application profiling, Java heap and thread dump analysis
• Knowledge of video, audio, and subtitle formats, codecs, wrappers, and usages.
• Knowledge of media standards and specifications such as SMPTE

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The hiring range for this position in Los Angeles, CA and Bristol, CT is $141,900 to $190,300 per year, and in New York, NY is $148,700 to $199,400 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.

Job Posting Segment:

Content Platforms & Operations

Job Posting Primary Business:

CO - Distribution Platforms

Primary Job Posting Category:

Software Engineer

Employment Type:

Full time

Primary City, State, Region, Postal Code:

Glendale, CA, USA

Alternate City, State, Region, Postal Code:

Date Posted:

2025-11-07

Job Posting Title:

Director, Data Engineering - Platform Data Solutions

Req ID:

10146637

Job Description:

About the Role & Team

"We Power the Magic!" That’s our motto at Disney Experiences (DX). Our team creates world-class immersive digital experiences for the Company’s premier vacation brands including Disney Parks & Resorts worldwide, Disney Cruise Line, Aulani, a Disney Resort & Spa, and Disney Vacation Club.

The Director, Platform Data Solutions, is responsible for leading the Platform Data Solutions organization within the Data Products & Platforms portfolio. This role operates the front door of Helix—ensuring source data arrives reliably, remains secure, and is consistently available for downstream teams and business use.

This leadership position sits within the DX Data organization and reports into the Vice President, Data.

What You Will Do

• Own data platforms, pipelines, and architecture supporting data onboarding, foundational medallion data layers (Landing, Bronze, Silver), and pipeline operations across Disney Experiences, ensuring scalable, reliable, and secure data delivery.
• Lead multiple teams of data engineers responsible for building, operating, and evolving enterprise-scale data ingestion frameworks and pipelines.
• Own the end-to-end front door of Helix, including source system onboarding, ingestion frameworks, data validation, and source-oriented data standardization.
• Accountable for the design, build, operation, reliability, and security of Raw (Bronze) and Cleansed Source (Silver) data layers, managing structured and unstructured data at scale while ensuring auditability, traceability, data quality, and performance.
• Lead pipeline operations and platform reliability, including monitoring, incident response, L2 support, root cause analysis, and proactive remediation to meet availability and SLA expectations.
• Own and manage upstream relationships with technical source system owners, including data contracts, schema evolution, onboarding requirements, and delivery timelines, coordinating upstream changes with minimal impact to the data ecosystem.
• Manage and govern managed services partners providing L1/L2 support and day-to-day data operations, ensuring consistent service delivery and clear engineering accountability.
• Oversee legacy data pipelines while driving migration to modern data platform architectures, ensuring continuity for business-critical workloads.
• Partner closely with Platform Engineering & Operations, Business Data Solutions, and Platform Strategy & Governance in a highly matrixed environment to deliver platform outcomes.
• Provide thought leadership on data engineering best practices, platform architecture, and operational excellence to drive business value, efficiency, and innovation.
• Communicate effectively with senior leaders and stakeholders through clear storytelling, executive updates, and outcome-focused reporting.

Qualifications, Experience & Skills

• 12+ years of related experience in data engineering, data platforms, or large-scale data operations.
• Advanced knowledge of data architecture, data warehousing, and modern ELT/ETL pipeline design.
• Expertise with modern data platforms such as Snowflake and/or BigQuery.
• Experience with lakehouse architecture and data formats including Parquet and Iceberg.
• Experience designing and operating automated, highly available data pipelines at scale.
• Hands-on experience with data transformation and orchestration tools such as dbt and Airflow.
• Strong understanding of data quality, observability, and monitoring practices and tooling.
• Familiarity with data security, privacy, and compliance requirements in enterprise environments.
• Proven ability to lead and develop diverse, highly technical teams in a matrix organization.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to influence and partner at all levels.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience
• Advanced degree in the above fields preferred.

Job Posting Segment:

DX Technology

Job Posting Primary Business:

Emerging Tech & Data

Primary Job Posting Category:

Data Engineering

Employment Type:

Full time

Primary City, State, Region, Postal Code:

Orlando, FL, USA

Alternate City, State, Region, Postal Code:

Date Posted:

2026-04-13

Job Posting Title:

Mgr, Business Intelligence

Req ID:

10147460

Job Description:

Department Description:

At Disney Experiences Technology (DXT), our team creates world-class immersive digital experiences for the Company’s premier vacation brands including Disney’s Parks & Resorts worldwide, Disney Cruise Line, Aulani, A Disney Resort & Spa, and Disney Vacation Club.

As the Manager, Business Intelligence for Disney Photo Imaging (DPI), you will lead a high-performing team of analysts to deliver data-driven insights that shape the strategy, operations, and guest experience of a large-scale, world-class photography business.

DPI operates across multiple sales and service channels—including onsite, online, and mobile—and your leadership will be critical in evolving our business intelligence capabilities toward AI-enabled, self-service analytics.

You will define and execute the BI strategy, partner with cross-functional teams (Product, Technology, Finance, Marketing, and Operations), and ensure that our data infrastructure, tools, and insights empower decision-makers at all levels. This role reports to the Director of Digital Experience.

Responsibilities of the Role:

• Define and lead the strategic direction and roadmap for Business Intelligence in alignment with DPI’s business goals and digital product strategy.
• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of BI analysts, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning where they deliver actionable insights that drive revenue, optimize pricing and packaging, and enhance guest experiences.
• Drive the evolution of DPI’s BI capabilities from traditional reporting to AI-powered, self-service analytics that enable scalable, real-time decision-making.
• Partner with stakeholders across Product, Marketing, Finance, and Operations to identify key business questions to provide strategic perspective based on developed reports using various visualization and data modeling methods and present these reports to internal partners and external clients.
• Collaborate with Marketing and Product in the development of appropriate promotional and packaging opportunities of both new and existing products.
• Perform detailed analytical support around both the profitability and incremental of various fulfillment, sales channel alternatives, and pricing alternatives
• Through testing and measurement, determine the optimal product mix, packages, and pricing structure for the online channel.
• Measure targeted promotional offers and guest email communication that will drive purchase behavior and grow incremental profitability
• Oversee the design, development, and maintenance of dashboards, reports, and data visualizations using Tableau and other BI tools; ensure performance, accuracy, and relevance of all outputs.
• Collaborate with data engineering and architecture teams to ensure robust, scalable, and governed data pipelines and models (e.g., Snowflake, SAP, POS, e-commerce systems).
• Champion the development and adoption of self-service BI tools and certified datasets; provide training and support to empower business users to access and analyze data independently.
• Ensure data quality, integrity, and compliance through strong governance practices, access controls, and documentation.
• Leverage advanced analytics techniques—including AI/ML, predictive modeling, and augmented analytics—to uncover trends, forecast performance, and automate insight generation.
• Translate complex data into compelling narratives and executive-ready presentations that influence strategic decisions.
• Monitor and evaluate emerging BI technologies and trends (e.g., conversational BI, real-time analytics) to continuously improve DPI’s analytics capabilities.

Qualifications:

• A minimum of 8 years of experience in business intelligence, data analytics, or related fields, including 2+ years in a leadership or team management role.
• Proven experience with BI tools such as Tableau (Desktop and Server), Power BI, or Looker.
• Proficiency in SQL and data modeling; familiarity with Python or R for advanced analytics is a plus.
• Experience with cloud-based data platforms (e.g., Snowflake, Redshift) and enterprise data systems (e.g., SAP, Adobe Analytics).
• Strong understanding of data governance, data quality, and security best practices.
• Demonstrated ability to define and track KPIs, develop strategic insights, and influence cross-functional stakeholders.
• Excellent communication and storytelling skills; ability to present complex data to technical and non-technical audiences, including senior leadership.
• Experience in digital product, e-commerce, or imaging/media industries is highly desirable.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience implementing AI/ML or augmented analytics in a business intelligence context.
• Tableau or equivalent BI tool certification.
• Familiarity with agile methodologies and product development lifecycles.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, Business Analytics, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field; Master’s degree or MBA preferred.

The hiring range for this position in Orlando, FL is $123,100.00 to $165,100.00 per year and in Burbank, CA $129,300 to $173,300 per year and in Seattle, WA & New York, NY is $135,400 to $181,600 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.

Job Posting Segment:

DX Technology

Job Posting Primary Business:

Products & Experiences

Primary Job Posting Category:

Business Intelligence Analytics

Employment Type:

Full time

Primary City, State, Region, Postal Code:

Orlando, FL, USA

Alternate City, State, Region, Postal Code:

USA - NY - 7 Hudson Square, USA - WA - 925 4th Ave

Date Posted:

2026-04-17

Job Posting Title:

Principal Site Reliability Engineer

Req ID:

10147294

Job Description:

At Disney Experiences Technology, our team creates world-class immersive digital experiences for the Company’s premier vacation brands including Disney’s Parks & Resorts worldwide, Disney Cruise Line, Aulani, A Disney Resort & Spa, and Disney Vacation Club. We are responsible for the end-to-end digital and physical Guest experience for all technology & digital-led initiatives across the Attractions & Entertainment, Food & Beverage, Resorts & Transportation and Merchandise lines of business as well as other initiatives including MyDisneyExperience and Hey, Disney!

This role sits in the US Parks & Resorts organization within Disney Experience Technology and works closely with other site reliability engineers, application delivery teams, and systems engineers from across the company.

The Principal Site Reliability Engineer will report to the Sr. Manager, Systems Engineering.

About The Role & Team:

• The Edge Security team supports more than 4000 teams worldwide supporting new product launches, brands announcements, key events, and ongoing Edge Security
• Our team is dispersed over multiple locations to allow for support of our worldwide partners and brands.
• Work closely with our Global Information Security teams to ensure compliance with corporate standards, fulfilment of audit requests, and alignment of Disney Experiences brands to Disney Security standards.

What You'll Do:

• Lead and impact the DevOps culture among the larger Disney Experiences organization while mentoring others on the effective use of the security culture to drive observability
• Elevate and lead the design, build, and support of products platforms
• Propel and drive development pipelines, automate infrastructure and operations, create telemetry for monitoring, engineer high reliability and reinforce best practices to secure company data
• Expertise in systems administration skills Akamai, and must have extensive experience with web and mobile technologies.
• Establish administration requirements in Akamai and bring knowledge to operational excellence and application stability, security, performance, and capacity management, as well as documentation
• Engage in estimation and planning across the organization, voicing recommendations and solutions from a technical perspective
• Continuously monitor and evaluate emerging technologies within your area of expertise to drive informed decision-making and recommendations

Required Qualifications:

• Minimum 10 years of related work experience
• Expertise in defining and implementing industry-leading observability strategies across diverse and highly complex distributed systems, ensuring optimal performance and reliability
• Comprehensive knowledge and hands-on experience with industry standard security tools and approaches driving innovation and setting industry benchmarks
• Mastery in architecting and managing highly available, scalable, and automated security solutions contributing to the organization's strategic objectives and competitive advantage
• Expert in using AI to optimize system reliability through advanced analytics and prescriptive recommendations
• Excellent communication and leadership abilities, to ensure effective growth and development of team
• A visionary in Edge Strategy who motivates teams to challenge the status quo, ensuring our defense posture evolves faster than the tools used by attackers.
• An advocate for a diverse and inclusive culture that encourages innovation and ensures every team member feels a sense of belonging
• Mastery in architecting and automating "Defensive Infrastructure"— highly available, scalable security solutions that protect the origin while maintaining the zero-latency requirements of a world-class SRE organization
• Authority in Akamai Bot Manager, Kona Site Defender, and WAF demonstrating deep expertise and knowledge in the field

Preferred Qualifications:

• ·Extensive Experience with high demand releases and brands
• PCI audit and standards experience

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

Job Posting Segment:

DX Technology

Job Posting Primary Business:

Tech Delivery, Platforms, & Core Systems

Primary Job Posting Category:

Site/System Reliability Engineer

Employment Type:

Full time

Primary City, State, Region, Postal Code:

Bay Lake, FL, USA

Alternate City, State, Region, Postal Code:

Date Posted:

2026-04-17