Lead Software Engineer

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Location Seattle, Washington, United States Business Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology Date posted Oct. 15, 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.

The Observability & Insights group ensures that Disney Streaming’s distributed systems are reliable, performant, and transparent. We build the telemetry, dashboards, alerting, insights pipelines, and developer experience tooling that enable engineers across the organization to understand system health and take action quickly.

Job Summary:

We are seeking a Lead Software Engineer who is passionate about observability tooling, data, and integrations. In this role, you will own and lead the design and delivery of multi‑component systems that support how engineering teams collect, analyze, and act on critical system data. You will set architectural direction and partner with engineers across teams to deliver solutions that enhance visibility into systems, support the development lifecycle, and improve reliability and performance.

This role is expected to leverage modern AI tools to enhance development workflows and productivity, and to drive their adoption across the team. We are looking for engineers who can evaluate and apply emerging technologies in practical ways across the engineering lifecycle.

If you’re passionate about observability, analytics, and leading teams through complex technical problems, we’d love to hear from you.

Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:

• Own and lead the development of multi-component solutions that support observability tools, data pipelines, and engineering systems.
• Set architectural direction and drive cross-team collaboration to deliver large‑scope solutions that improve system monitoring, data collection, and…