Software Engineer II - Site Reliability Engineer

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:

As a Software Engineer on the COPEX team, you'll design and build the foundational backend systems that directly power the Hulu & Disney+ streaming experience. You will architect mission-critical, high-throughput services for API and content recommendation delivery, while also building the platforms that empower our entire engineering organization to ship code with speed and confidence.

You will join a talented team of engineers who build the software that:

• Delivers foundational APIs and serves personalized streaming experiences to millions of users daily.
• Enables our engineering organization to define, provision, and manage cloud infrastructure programmatically and at scale.
• Allows teams to deploy changes to production swiftly and safely through sophisticated, automated CI/CD pipelines.
• Provides deep insight into application performance via powerful, self-service observability and testing platforms.
• Optimizes system capacity and cloud costs by engineering data-driven, automated solutions.

Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:

• Architect, build, and scale foundational backend services for API delivery and content recommendation, focusing on high availability, low latency, and massive throughput.
• Design, build, and evolve our CI/CD solutions, writing clean, scalable code to automate the entire build, test, and deployment lifecycle.
• Architect and develop robust, scalable test automation frameworks that product teams will use for load, integration, and functional testing.
• Write software to abstract and automate infrastructure provisioning, creating a seamless, self-service experience for engineering teams using Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Develop the core software, libraries, and services that form our observability platform, enabling engineers to easily build reliable and performant applications.
• Proactively improve system architecture and build software-based solutions to reduce toil, minimize incidents, and automate remediation.

Required Education, Experience/Skills/Training:

Basic Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of professional experience
• Experience in a DevOps or SRE role.
• Experience with IaC
• Experience with incident response
• Experience with containerization
• Experience with CI/CD tools
• Experience programming in Java or a JVM language
• Experience working on cross-team projects.
• An ability to work both independently and collaboratively
• Strong communication skills and a desire to share and learn

Required Education  

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical field.

The hiring range for this position in New York is $120,300 to $161,300 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.