Senior Software Engineer – MySQL

The Walt Disney Company

Senior Software Engineer building and managing DEEP&T's database infrastructure and cloud systems. Ensuring high availability, scalability, and operational efficiency in a fast-paced environment.

Posted 4/24/2026full-timeBristol • Connecticut, New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $148,700 - $199,400 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudGoJavaLinuxMySQLPostgresPythonTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Responsible for building, deploying, and ensuring all DEEP&T database infrastructure is available 24/7/365.
Leverage software development and automation to design, modernize, and deliver database infrastructure.
Participates in setting the architectural direction for database platforms and projects.
Manage multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced, deadline-oriented environment.
Analyze, design, and deploy fault-tolerant, distributed, and highly available database infrastructure.
Proactively plan and implement infrastructure changes through capacity forecasting, software release cycles, and right sizing.
Provide database expertise through performance tuning, troubleshooting and administration.
Develop, enhance, and adhere to engineering and administration standards.
Develop automation and tooling to increase operational efficiency while ensuring system reliability and security.
Build infrastructure and systems for scalability, resiliency, availability, and recovery though infrastructure as code and configuration management.
Provide relevant insights of data store infrastructure through metrics, monitoring, and alerting.
Maintain thorough and well-written documentation.
Participate in live event support and on-call rotation.
May provide oversight and direction to junior team members.
Builds relationships with engineering teams and leads.

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years of related work experience with relational database systems such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, Amazon RDS, and Amazon RDS Aurora.
BA/BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent technical experience
Fundamental understanding of database internals for at least one of the above database engines.
Experience working in Agile software development.
Experience with source control management tools (Git, GitLab, GitHub).
Intermediate to advanced level of expertise in one or more programming languages such as Python, Java, or Go.
Experience running, deploying, and maintaining production cloud infrastructure in Amazon Web Services.
General understanding and experience with Linux operating system, network, and containers.
Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Experience designing and deploying fault-tolerant, distributed, and highly available database infrastructure.
Experience with disaster recovery planning and implementation.
Carries out assignments with little coaching or guidance from others.

Benefits

Comp & perks

A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.

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Hard Skills & Tools

PostgreSQLMySQLAmazon RDSAmazon RDS AuroraPythonJavaGoTerraformCloudFormationLinux

Soft Skills

communicationtroubleshootingperformance tuningadministrationrelationship buildingcapacity forecastingoperational efficiencydocumentationteam oversighttime management

Certifications

BA/BS in Computer Science