Senior Software 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.

• 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.
• The Business Operations team helps guide and articulate technology strategy and research, and is responsible for driving the day-to-day operation of the Product & Technology organization, including: project and portfolio management and tracking; organization-level capital, space, and resource management and allocation; process management; technical incident management; and our administrative and workplace experience support team.
• Disney's DE&E Cost Management team manages one of the largest and most complex cloud and technology spend portfolios in the entertainment industry, spanning AWS, GCP, Azure, and a broad ecosystem of enterprise software vendors.
• As a Senior Software Engineer, you will build and operate the data infrastructure, automation, and AI-driven tooling that gives Disney's engineering and finance leaders real-time visibility into a large-scale annual cloud and technology portfolio. This is a senior individual-contributor role for an engineer who understands cloud infrastructure, billing data, data platforms, and applied AI. You will help turn complex cost signals into trusted, actionable intelligence at Disney scale, design and build internal Fin Ops engineering platforms, mentor junior engineers, and serve as a go-to technical resource for cost visibility, attribution, and optimization across DE&E.

• Design, build, and maintain AI-driven cost intelligence platforms, contributing to architecture decisions for retrieval-augmented generation workflows, evaluation and quality frameworks, guardrails, rate limiting, secure access patterns, and cross-account model integration.
• Own deployment and infrastructure patterns for production services, including containerized workloads, CI/CD pipelines, secure networking, certificate management, load balancing, and reliable service delivery.
• Design, build, and maintain cost data pipelines that ingest, transform, reconcile, and serve billing and usage data from cloud providers and enterprise software vendors, with a focus on data quality, freshness, reliability, and stakeholder trust.
• Extend AI spend tracking and attribution capabilities as AI and machine learning workloads scale, including usage metering, cost allocation, and reporting for emerging AI services and platforms.
• Build and maintain optimization automation for rightsizing, idle resource detection, commitment coverage monitoring, and anomaly alerting.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to team engineering practices, including CI/CD standards, code review, and operational quality standards.
• Partner with Cloud Engineering, Platform Engineering, Finance, Product, and Architecture…