Job Posting Title:Lead Software Engineer- PythonReq ID:10129329Job Description:Technology is at the heart of Disney’s past, present, and future. Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product &amp; 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 &amp; 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 &amp; ESPN digital and streaming products and platforms. This includes product engineering, media engineering, quality assurance, engineering behind personalization, commerce, lifecycle, and identity.Responsibilities: <ul><li>Serve as an advanced resource for other software engineers through peer coding, knowledge sharing, and helping them navigate daily technical challenges.</li><li>Break down complex problems into smaller tasks that can be prioritized and worked on by the team.</li><li>Develop roadmaps that define a project vision and drive alignment across the organization.</li><li>Lead large projects that require frequent communication with stakeholders and mitigation of risks that could negatively impact the business.</li><li>Establish processes that ensure users and stakeholders receive strong support, incidents are promptly investigated and documented, and development workflows enhance team productivity.</li><li>Builds solutions for problems of sizable scope and complexity, which have been successfully deployed for customers/users. </li><li>Provide support to platform users related to onboarding, issue resolution, ad hoc code debugging, and platform bug fixes. </li><li>Builds and enhances Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines. </li></ul>Basic Qualifications : <ul><li>Minimum of 7 years of professional software engineering experience, including work on large-scale projects.</li><li>Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience. </li><li>Intermediate to advanced coding experience with one or more of the following programming languages: Python, Java, or Scala </li><li>Experience writing, maintaining and deploying RESTful services. </li><li>Write code that establishes and enhances frameworks for projects with direct organizational impact.</li><li>Ensure quality of team deliverables by reviewing code and setting standards for scalability, usability, metrics, and testing.</li><li>Experience integrating with CI/CD platforms and tool chains such as GitHub, Artifactory, Gitlab, and Jenkins. </li><li>Amazon Web Services-based infrastructure and management including some of: SQS, ALB, EC2, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, Lambda, VPC, ECS, EKS, IAM, S3, etc. </li></ul>  Preferred Qualifications:<ul><li>Experience with one or more of the following programming languages: Python</li><li>Experience applying best practices to application, system, and public cloud infrastructure. </li></ul>#DISNEYTECH The hiring range for this position in Bristol, CT is $152,200 - $204,100 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 Job Posting Segment:PE - Sports, News &amp; Entertainment, EnablementJob Posting Primary Business:PE - Sports, News &amp; Entertainment, Enablement - Infrastructure EngineeringPrimary Job Posting Category:Software EngineerEmployment Type:Full timePrimary City, State, Region, Postal Code:Bristol, CT, USAAlternate City, State, Region, Postal Code:Date Posted:2025-09-10

Disney

Similar Remote Jobs