Software Engineer II
The Walt Disney Company
About the role
Job Posting Title:
Software Engineer II
Req ID:
10148452
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.
The Observability & Insights group ensures that Disney Streaming’s distributed systems are reliable, performant, and transparent. We build the telemetry, dashboards, alerting, insights pipelines, and developer experience tooling that enable engineers across the organization to understand system health and take action quickly.
Job Summary:
We are seeking a Software Engineer who is passionate about observability tooling, data, and integrations. In this role, you will contribute to building and improving components that support how engineering teams collect, analyze, and act on critical system data. You will work alongside other engineers to implement solutions that enhance visibility into systems, support the development lifecycle, and improve reliability and performance.
This role is encouraged to leverage modern AI tools to enhance development workflows and productivity. We are looking for engineers who are interested in learning and applying emerging technologies in practical ways across the engineering lifecycle.
If you’re passionate about observability, analytics, and solving technical problems as part of a team, we’d love to hear from you.
Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:
Contribute to the development and maintenance of components that support observability tools, data pipelines, and engineering systems.
Collaborate with teammates to implement features that improve system monitoring, data collection, and analysis.
Learn and apply AI-assisted development tools to improve coding efficiency and workflow productivity.
Help implement updates to existing engineering data models and integrations across systems.
Assist in debugging issues and contribute to root cause analysis under guidance from senior engineers.
Support the delivery of data-driven insights that help improve system performance and reliability.
Identify small opportunities to improve code quality, documentation, or team processes.
Required Education, Experience/Skills/Training:
Basic Qualifications
Minimum 3 years of professional experience in software development.
Experience building and maintaining applications using modern programming languages (e.g., Golang, TypeScript, Python, Java, C++, Rust) and frameworks (e.g., React, Angular).
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.
Experience with modern development practices, including version control (e.g., GitHub) and CI/CD or configuration-based deployments (e.g., Kubernetes, Terraform, CloudFormation).
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with observability platforms (e.g., Datadog, Splunk, New Relic).
Familiarity with data platforms and databases such as Databricks, Snowflake, MySQL, or PostgreSQL.
Experience working in large-scale engineering environments.
Exposure to distributed systems or streaming platforms; understanding of client-server architecture is a plus.
Exposure to using data or observability tools to support engineering improvements.
Education
BS in a quantitative field (Computer Science, Engineering, Math/Statistics, or similar).
Preferred Education
Masters in a quantitative field (Computer Science, Engineering, Math/Statistics, or similar).
The hiring range for this position in Seattle, WA and New York, NY is $124,900.00 - $167,400.00 per year and in Glendale, CA is $119,200.00 - $159,800.00. 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 - Sports, News & Entertainment, Tech Enablement
Job Posting Primary Business:
PE - Sports, News & Entertainment, Enablement - News & Entertainment Engineering
Primary Job Posting Category:
Software Engineer
Employment Type:
Full time
Primary City, State, Region, Postal Code:
Seattle, WA, USA
Alternate City, State, Region, Postal Code:
USA - CA - 1200 Grand Central Ave, USA - NY - 7 Hudson Square
Date Posted:
2026-04-30
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain observability tools, data pipelines, and engineering systems.
- Implement features that improve system monitoring, data collection, and analysis.
- Use AI-assisted development tools to improve coding efficiency and productivity.
- Update engineering data models and integrations across systems.
- Debug issues and contribute to root cause analysis.
- Deliver data-driven insights to improve system performance and reliability.
- Improve code quality, documentation, and team processes.
Qualifications
- At least 3 years of professional software development experience.
- Experience building and maintaining applications with modern programming languages and frameworks.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.
- Experience with version control and CI/CD or configuration-based deployments.
- Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field or equivalent background.
- Preferred experience with observability platforms, data platforms or databases, large-scale engineering environments, distributed systems, or streaming platforms.
Benefits
- Potential bonus and/or long-term incentive units.
- Medical, financial, and other benefits.
Skills mentioned
About The Walt Disney Company
Imagine a career at Disneyland Paris. From the moment you arrive, you’ll be immersed in a dynamic and multicultural team of talent that welcomes our Guests every day to create magical souvenirs they’ll cherish forever. Since 1992, we’ve opened our Park gates to 320 million visitors and made the dreams of millions come true! You too could be part of the magic! The success in delivering these projects and their stories is thanks to our team of 15,000 Cast Members who live Walt Disney’s vision: they bring imagination and wonder to our guests while seeing their own careers flourish. And this is where you can get involved. We have 500 different job profiles across our corporate and operations departments, so whether you’re interested in the operational roles within our Park, maybe to work part-time alongside your studies, or if you’re interested in Marketing, Finance, Engineering and our other corporate roles, we invite you to apply to us! Discover our many career opportunities in our recruitment website careers.disneylandparis.com :