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Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Apply Now Apply Later Job ID 10094556 Location Seattle, Washington, United States / Burbank, California, United States / Glendale, California, United States / San Francisco, California, United States Business Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology Date posted Sep. 24, 2024

Job Summary:

Job Summary:

Our Performance and Reliability teams are leading the improvements, optimization, and availability of applications across the Disney organization and business units, taking a consultative approach to Reliability Engineering by supporting, educating, mentoring, and delivering automation to foster performance and resiliency in best practice.

The Senior Site Reliability Engineer is a key member of our Performance and Reliability embedded teams. We focus on planning, scoping, solution architecting, software design, and implementation based on functional and performance capability requirements. We leverage cloud-native, commercial, and open-source tools and frameworks to solve complex business needs.  These solutions touch a wide range of functional areas.  This role will collaborate with Software Engineers, Product Owners, and others across teams and business areas to influence solutions and platforms across the organization.

Responsibilities:

  • Build solutions for problems of sizable scope and complexity that have been successfully deployed to customers.

  • Champions Infrastructure as Code (IaC); provides thought leadership; establishes enterprise-level infrastructure patterns.

  • Builds and enhances Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.

  • Regularly review existing systems, policies, and practices, while identifying solutions that enhance service delivery efficiency, and enhance the current environment.

  • Mentors less experienced engineers. Collaborates with product engineering leaders to find innovative solutions for moderately complex problems.

  • Writes code that establishes and enhances frameworks, typically for software programs and systems that have little or no precedent.

  • Reviews code for the design, testability, and clear usability.

  • Develops specifications for assigned components, projects or fixes.

  • Builds solutions that scale and perform.

  • Participates in project proposal, architecture, and design. Contributes to architecture design and implementation of assigned projects and may lead in the effort.

  • Oversees technical maintenance. Performs troubleshooting for systems that tend to be large and highly complex.

  • Design, development, documentation and/or testing.

  • Applies experience to resolve a variety of complex issues.

Basic Qualifications:

  • 7+ years within the Reliability Engineering field.

  • Well-versed with Reliability Engineering principles, patterns, and best practices.

  • Ability to understand the business domain from both a technical and product viewpoint.

  • 5+ Years experience working with AWS Cloud Infrastructure and resources.

  • 5+ Years experience in designing and implementing automation tools.

  • 5+ Years experience running and monitoring large scale distributed systems

  • Proficient in Python and/or other coding language.

  • Well-versed with modern infrastructure services and concepts such as containerization, distributed systems and microservices.

  • Experience designing and implementing automation tools.

  • Well-versed in Software Engineering principles and patterns.

  • Experience working with globally distributed teams.

  • Experience as a coach and mentor within a business environment.

  • Experience working within an Agile environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field, or equivalent training or work experience.


The hiring range for this position in New York or Seattle is $142,600 to $191,100 per year, in Los Angeles is $132,000 to $181,000 and in San Francisco is $152,000 to $201,000. 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.

About Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology:

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Technology (DE&E Technology) provides the technological backbone and product development for Disney’s two media business units, while helping to keep the company at the vanguard of innovation – enabling the Company to continuously leverage technology to enhance storytelling and creativity, while delivering scalability, flexibility, and efficiency for its businesses.

About The Walt Disney Company:

The Walt Disney Company, together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading diversified international family entertainment and media enterprise that includes three core business segments: Disney Entertainment, ESPN, and Disney Experiences. From humble beginnings as a cartoon studio in the 1920s to its preeminent name in the entertainment industry today, Disney proudly continues its legacy of creating world-class stories and experiences for every member of the family. Disney’s stories, characters and experiences reach consumers and guests from every corner of the globe. With operations in more than 40 countries, our employees and cast members work together to create entertainment experiences that are both universally and locally cherished.

This position is with Disney Streaming Technology LLC, which is part of a business we call Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology.

Disney Streaming Technology LLC is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, military or veteran status, medical condition, genetic information or disability, or any other basis prohibited by federal, state or local law. Disney champions a business environment where ideas and decisions from all people help us grow, innovate, create the best stories and be relevant in a constantly evolving world.

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