Senior SDET - Backend Infrastructure & APIs

Senior SDET - Backend Infrastructure & APIs

Job

Locations Glendale, California, United States;
Santa Monica, California, United States;
San Francisco, California, United States;
Seattle, Washington, United States

Business Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology

Date posted Dec. 11, 2025

Job Summary: 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 DEEP&T 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 and media engineering, quality assurance, as well as engineering behind personalization, commerce, lifecycle, and identity.

We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. The Walt Disney Company is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate based on race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

Responsibilities:

• Independently break down large epics and stories into smaller tasks based on stakeholder requirements.
• Contribute to the architecture, development and maintenance of test frameworks and pipelines that verify backend services and APIs across multiple products.
• Develop and support high‑quality code to build and enhance test automation, quality infrastructure, and innovative proof‑of‑concepts.
• Maintain documentation meant for both end users and project contributors.
• Support and mentor junior developers, providing meaningful insight, code reviews and technical direction across the team.
• Investigate and troubleshoot issues across our services and drive them to resolution.
• Keep up with industry trends and new publicly available technologies, coming up with innovative ideas and solutions for complex technical problems.
• Serve as an advanced resource for engineers on the team, training and helping others to contribute meaningful and impactful features and capabilities.
• Be an active member of the larger Quality Engineering team, helping increase productivity and impact through innovation, curiosity, and thoughtful debate.

Basic Qualifications:

• 5 years of relevant experience in a software development in test (SDET or SE) occupation, including automated and/or unit testing of front‑end and back‑end services.
• Bachelor’s degree or the foreign equivalent in a related field or equivalent years of work experience.
• Proficient in object‑oriented design and expertise with one of the following programming languages:
  Python, Java, Node/JavaScript.
• Experience working with high‑performing teams using Agile and Lean methodologies.
• Experience in modern design patterns and techniques, deriving and gathering quality KPIs to give insight into…