Lead Software Engineer, Python

The Walt Disney Company

full-time

Posted on: 9/25/2025

Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States

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💰 $152,200 - $204,100 per year

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About the role

Serve as an advanced resource for other software engineers through peer coding, knowledge sharing, and helping them navigate daily technical challenges.
Break down complex problems into smaller tasks that can be prioritized and worked on by the team.
Develop roadmaps that define a project vision and drive alignment across the organization.
Lead large projects that require frequent communication with stakeholders and mitigation of risks that could negatively impact the business.
Establish processes that ensure users and stakeholders receive strong support, incidents are promptly investigated and documented, and development workflows enhance team productivity.
Builds solutions for problems of sizable scope and complexity, which have been successfully deployed for customers/users.
Provide support to platform users related to onboarding, issue resolution, ad hoc code debugging, and platform bug fixes.
Builds and enhances Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.

Minimum of 7 years of professional software engineering experience, including work on large-scale projects.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience.
Intermediate to advanced coding experience with one or more of the following programming languages: Python, Java, or Scala
Experience writing, maintaining and deploying RESTful services.
Experience integrating with CI/CD platforms and tool chains such as GitHub, Artifactory, Gitlab, and Jenkins.
Amazon Web Services-based infrastructure and management including some of: SQS, ALB, EC2, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, Lambda, VPC, ECS, EKS, IAM, S3, etc.