Senior Product Software Engineer

The Walt Disney Company

Senior Software Engineer on the Media Security team at Disney, building high-performance services for media rights and playback technologies. Collaborating on backend architectures and mentoring engineers in an enterprise setting.

Posted 6/12/2026full-timeSanta Monica • California, New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $141,900 - $199,400 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudDockerGrafanaJenkinsKafkaScalaSplunk

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Work with a team of engineers to build high-performance, stable, scalable systems to be deployed in an enterprise setting
Lead high-level architecture discussions and planning sessions, author and share feedback on technical proposals and root cause analyses, and establish standards within the team to drive quality and excellence
Participate in the on-call rotation, supporting systems and services during production incidents
Provide mentoring and advice for other engineers
Participate in the DSS technical community through presentations, tech talks, and other knowledge-sharing efforts

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience
Minimum of 5 years related experience crafting backend architectures and delivering backend applications in a production environment.
Validated knowledge of operating large-scale high-availability backend services and JVM services
Expertise in functional programming patterns and experience building RESTful services (Scala APIs)
Understanding of async programming models (events, callbacks, promises, async/await) and threading/concurrency
Strong grasp of computer science fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, databases, etc.) and strong understanding of design patterns and principles
Experience operating within a Public Cloud Provider (e.g., AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)
Understanding of source control concepts and systems, CI/CD pipelines and exposure to Git
Experience with build and deployment technologies such as Jenkins and Docker.
Experience with messaging technologies (e.g., Kafka, Kinesis, SQS, etc.)
Experience with observability tools for metrics, logging, and monitoring (e.g., Datadog, Splunk, Grafana)
Knowledge of caching technologies
Knowledge of AGILE/Scrum practices.
Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Self-learner, independent, excellent problem-solving skills.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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

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Hard Skills & Tools

backend architectureRESTful servicesfunctional programmingasync programmingJVM servicesdata structuresalgorithmsdesign patternsCI/CD pipelinescaching technologies

Soft Skills

mentoringproblem-solvingcommunicationindependenceteam collaborationleadershipknowledge sharingplanningfeedbackquality assurance