Walt Disney Studios. California, Santa Monica

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 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.

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology

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.

Commerce, Data & Identity

Commerce, Data & Identity provides the core product management functions for areas crucial to Disney's media businesses. These include initiatives and products that power digital commerce, identity, and growth, as well as those that reach uniquely across The Walt Disney Company enterprise, such as messaging and privacy, among others. Additionally, it is responsible for the data engineering, science, and products for Disney Entertainment & ESPN, along with their interconnection with other parts of The Walt Disney Company.

Job Summary – Senior Software Engineer

The Data Foundations Platform and Governance Engineering team within the Commerce, Data, and Identity organization within the larger Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product and Technology organization is in search of a Senior Software Engineer. The role of this Senior Engineer will focus on privacy solutions and data subject rights automation, working cross‑functionally with analytics, data architecture, legal and security partners to build scalable solutions to solve complex privacy related challenges.

You'll get to understand the challenges of how data is being used at Disney's world‑class streaming services while pushing the boundaries of what is possible using the latest technologies available in AWS, Databricks, and beyond.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Contribute to developing full-stack applications as part of a unified platform and user experience

• Be a key player in a cross‑functional team of engineers who build software for a large‑scale data processing ecosystem, supporting real‑time and batch data pipelines for analytics, data science, and operations.

• Contribute to architecture, design, and code shared libraries in Scala and Python that abstract complex business logic to allow consistent functionality across all data pipelines across the Data organization

• Contribute to architecture and build world class modularized tooling to understand our very complex environments to come up with plans for simplification, migration, and maintenance.

• Maintain software engineering and architecture best practices and standards within the team and wider organization, along with a culture of quality, innovation, and experimentation

• Evangelize and evolve the platform, best‑practices, data driven decisions; identify new use cases and features and drive adoption

• Build out a robust observability, alerting, logging, and system control plane that allows easy diagnosis of any issues across all our data pipelines.

• Contribute to maintaining, updating, and expanding existing software deployments while maintaining strict uptime SLAs

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