Sr Systems Engineer

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Location Glendale, California, United States / New York, New York, United States Business Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology Date posted Nov. 04, 2026

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology

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.

Join Core Infrastructure as a Senior (P3) Systems Engineer focused on building, automating, and operating our storage platforms — including large-scale, multi-protocol NFS and S3 object storage systems that support origin and content delivery — across hybrid on-prem and cloud environments. You’ll implement approved designs and standards, automate day-to-day storage operations, keep services healthy and secure, and contribute to incident response and continuous improvement, partnering with P4/P5 engineers on more complex initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Provision & operate storage platforms across block/file/object storage — including large-scale, multiprotocol NFS and S3 object storage systems supporting origin and content delivery — following reference architectures and change procedures.
• Automate common workflows (provisioning, configuration, compliance, backups) using IaC and scripting (e.g., Terraform/Ansible/Power Shell/Bash); maintain runbooks and SOPs.
• Monitor & troubleshoot: build actionable alerts/dashboards, investigate storage performance and capacity issues, and execute remediation to keep SLOs green and support our goal of 5 9’s availability.
• Patch & secure platforms: execute patch plans, firmware updates, and vulnerability remediations in partnership with security; document and verify results.
• Incident response: participate in the on‑call rotation, restore service quickly, capture post‑incident notes, and implement durable fixes per standards.
• Lifecycle & hygiene: decommission legacy storage systems, right‑size capacity,…