Sr Software Engineer

Department/Group Overview:

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:

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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.

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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.

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Innovation: We develop and implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms, and solve complex and distinctive technical problems.

Content Platforms & Operations is responsible for the development and ongoing advancement of the technical and operational functions driving the worldwide distribution and monetization of Disney’s linear networks and theatrical content. This includes Disney’s media supply chain and storage, network and theatrical distribution operations, media localization, network transmission and origination, and more. The global team also plays a critical role as the primary collaboration point for Product & Technology with Disney’s EMEA, APAC, and LATAM regional business teams.

The Rights & Accounting fleet oversees products and optimizes workflows that enable TWDC to monetize content including content rights and avails management, content sales and content protection, content accounting, and talent payments.

The Senior Software Engineer plays a critical role in the development, quality, and continuous improvement of Disney Content Platform's Rights Management systems. This role contributes across the full software development lifecycle, including requirements analysis, solution design, application development, test automation, system integration, deployment, and operational support.

Working across Rights Management supply chain applications, the Senior Software Developer designs, builds, tests, and supports scalable solutions while ensuring high standards of software quality, reliability, and performance. The role combines software engineering and quality engineering responsibilities, including the creation of new applications and tools, enhancement of existing systems, development of automated testing frameworks, and troubleshooting and maintenance of production solutions.

This position provides technical leadership, mentors junior engineers, drives engineering best practices, and ensures the successful delivery of high-quality software solutions that support business objectives and operational excellence.

• Design, develop, test, maintain, and support enterprise-scale Rights Management applications.
• Lead the implementation of complex features, technical initiatives, and…