Senior Database Engineer, SQL Server

The Walt Disney Company

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Hybrid

Quick summary

Work type: Hybrid
Location: Bristol, CTSeattle, WANew York, NY
Salary: $144,100–$193,200 / yr
Employment: Full-time
Posted: 16 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
Closes: Dec 31, 2026
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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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 90 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $150,900–$202,400 across 90 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Database Engineer, SQL Server

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The Sr. Database Engineer, SQL Server joins the Data Stores team within the Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology organization. This role focuses on building and maintaining highly available relational database systems across multiple cloud and on-premise environments to support the digital media supply chain and consumer-facing products. The engineer will design, deploy, and modernize fault-tolerant database infrastructure using software engineering principles and automation. Key responsibilities include performance tuning, capacity forecasting, and implementing infrastructure as code for scalability and recovery. Required technical skills include Microsoft SQL Server, Amazon RDS for SQL Server, Azure SQL, and Azure SQL MI, along with proficiency in Python, Java, or Go. Candidates must also possess experience with Git, Windows operating systems, containers, and SQL Server backup and recovery strategies.

Skills

Microsoft SQL Server Amazon RDS Azure SQL Azure SQL MI Python Java Go Terraform CloudFormation Ansible Chef Git GitLab GitHub CI/CD Infrastructure as Code Agile SRE DRE

What you'll do

Build, deploy, and maintain highly available relational database infrastructure across cloud and on-premise environments.
Design and implement fault-tolerant, distributed database systems using infrastructure as code and configuration management.
Develop automation and tooling to increase operational efficiency while ensuring system reliability and security.
Perform performance tuning, troubleshooting, and administration for Microsoft SQL Server and cloud-based database services.
Proactively plan infrastructure changes through capacity forecasting, software release cycles, and right-sizing.
Provide metrics, monitoring, and alerting to offer insights into data store infrastructure health.
Manage SQL Server backup, restore, recovery strategies, and the deployment of patches and upgrades.
Participate in live event support and on-call rotations to ensure 24/7/365 availability.

What we're looking for

Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
5+ years of related work experience with Microsoft SQL Server, Amazon RDS for SQL Server, Azure SQL, and Azure SQL MI.
Intermediate to advanced level of expertise in one or more programming languages such as Python, Java, or Go.
Experience designing and deploying fault-tolerant, distributed, and highly available database infrastructure.
Experience with source control management tools such as Git, GitLab, or GitHub.
Experience with SQL Server backup, restore, recovery strategies, and deploying patches and upgrades.
Experience in database availability monitoring and status reporting using native monitoring tools.
Experience operating within a database reliability engineering (DRE) and/or systems reliability engineering (SRE) role (preferred).

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