Manager, Software Engineering

The Walt Disney Company

Remote

Quick summary

Work type
Remote
Location
Remote
Salary
$163,400–$219,100 / yr
Posted
3 days ago
Closes
Jul 17, 2026

Market check

Salary context

Competitive pay

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $185k
This role $191k
$140k most similar roles pay here $234k

This role pays more than 55% of similar roles. Most pay $155,950–$214,500 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $191k versus about $185k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

Employer

About The Walt Disney Company

The Walt Disney Company is a diversified global entertainment and media enterprise operating in segments including Disney Parks, Experiences and Products; Entertainment (ABC, Hulu, Disney+); and ESPN. Industry: Entertainment & Media

The Walt Disney Company currently has 183 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $148,300–$198,800 across 179 roles with salary data.

Most-posted roles

View all roles at The Walt Disney Company

At a glance

TL;DR · Manager, Software Engineering

The Manager of Software Engineering at Disney Cruise Line and Adventures by Disney leads a team responsible for the Seaware platform and its integrations, focusing on scalable, resilient, and secure systems. This role involves building and coaching a high-performing engineering team while ensuring alignment with enterprise technology standards through close collaboration with various teams such as SE, SRE, database, cybersecurity, and product management. Key responsibilities include owning the end-to-end lifecycle of platform capabilities, driving service reliability, overseeing change and release management, and fostering adoption of modern engineering practices. The ideal candidate has 8+ years of experience in software or technology leadership, with expertise in application architecture, observability tools like CloudWatch and Splunk, and a strong understanding of relational databases (Oracle preferred). Experience with Seaware or similar reservation platforms is advantageous, as is knowledge of event-driven architectures and enterprise integration patterns.

What you'll do

  • Build and coach a high-performing engineering team for the Seaware platform.
  • Lead design, development, delivery, and support of critical platforms and integrations.
  • Own end-to-end lifecycle of platform capabilities, ensuring alignment with business goals.
  • Partner with SE, SRE teams to implement standards for scalability and resiliency.
  • Drive service reliability through incident response, root cause analysis, and monitoring.

What we're looking for

  • 8+ years of experience in software engineering or technology leadership
  • Proven ability to lead and develop high-performing engineering teams
  • Strong understanding of application architecture, APIs, integrations, and distributed systems
  • Experience with observability tools such as CloudWatch, Splunk, Datadog, Prometheus, and Grafana
  • Expertise in troubleshooting complex issues across multiple application layers
  • Understanding of security, data protection, and compliance principles in enterprise systems
  • Bachelor’s Degree in business, technology, science, or a related field

More like this

Similar roles

Manager, Software Engineering

The Walt Disney Company

Remote (Celebration, FL) 85 days ago
Java AWS Agile J2EE Python PostgreSQL Kubernetes Docker CI/CD Prometheus Grafana Terraform Azure Google Cloud
Remote

Manager, Software Engineering

The Walt Disney Company

Remote (Usa - Fl - Distribution Services Dc-2, US) 2 days ago $163,400$219,100
Java AWS GCP Azure CI/CD Agile AI Oracle Retail WMS Blue Yonder WMS Docker Kubernetes Terraform PostgreSQL MySQL Prometheus Grafana
Remote

Manager, Software Engineering

LogicGate

Remote (US) 65 days ago $165,000$200,000
TypeScript Angular Spring Boot Java Kotlin Go Neo4j Redis RabbitMQ PostgreSQL JUnit Jasmine Spectator Cypress AWS Terraform Kubernetes Docker Ansible GitLab Slack Jira Confluence
Remote

Manager, Software Engineering

Anduril Industries

Costa Mesa, CA 16 days ago $191,000$253,000
C++ Rust CI/CD Agile Embedded Linux DevOps Docker Kubernetes AWS Git Python PostgreSQL Grafana Prometheus Raspberry Pi IoT OTA updates Networking Security System Integration Device Drivers Firmware Development

Manager, Software Engineering

Circle

San Francisco, CA +24 20 days ago $195,000$257,500
Go Java Javascript AWS Kubernetes Docker CI/CD PostgreSQL Git Agile Scrum Terraform