Manager Software Engineering

Manager Software Engineering

Job   |

Location:

Glendale, California, United States / San Francisco, California, United States

Business:
Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology

Date posted:
Feb. 11, 2026

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.

Ad Platforms is responsible for Disney’s industry-leading ad technology and products – driving advertising performance, innovation, and value in Disney’s sports, news, and entertainment content, across all media platforms.

• Coach, mentor and motivate team to follow technical standards and best practices and build best technical platform
• Inspire individual and business success. Define strategies, priorities, and expectations. Provide continuous coaching and feedback. Develop self and others and support career aspirations. Demonstrate care and compassion. Create an environment where Company values are experienced
• Contribute to organization processes that improve velocity and impact of business initiatives. Ensure Release Management standards and processes are followed by the team
• Build a constant learning culture to improve innovation and team productivity. Grow brand awareness of the team.
• Practice effective art of delegation and ensure team completes yearly OKR goals
• Optimize team's Capex and Opex budget to improve Company's bottomline
• Collaborate with fellow engineers to keep the team’s technology radar and architecture principles aligned to the industry and needs of our users
• Deliver multiple projects utilizing an Agile methodology. Provide accurate estimation of product initiatives, sprint roadmap, delivery plan and forecasts
• Take a high ownership, self-sufficient, hands-on position on the team to collaborate and drive quality, maintain application stability. Be fully aware of product requirements and coach, mentor, motivate the team to provide correct solutions. Have awareness of end-to-end Organization's engineering architecture
• Chip in ground-breaking innovation and apply the state-of-the-art technologies
• Work with leads, product managers and managers to ensure that all project initiatives are delivered on time with high quality
• Collaborate with team to develop software architectures which are robust, fault-tolerant, and cloud-native
• Work collaboratively with other service teams, build collaborative relationships with product, project managers, QA, cross team leads, build consensus and alignment amongst all members and help with resolving roadblocks
• Ensure team develops high quality components of large-scale data platform for real-time and batch processing, and own features of big data applications to fit evolving business needs
• Coach team to design next-gen cloud…