Sr Software Engineer

Job ID 10142545 Location Seattle, Washington, United States / Santa Monica, California, United States / San Francisco, California, United States Business Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology Date posted Feb. 18, 2026

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Job Summary:

Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology

On any given day at Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology, we’re reimagining ways to create magical viewing experiences for the world’s most beloved stories while also transforming Disney’s media business for the future. Whether that’s evolving our streaming and digital products in new and immersive ways, powering worldwide advertising and distribution to maximize flexibility and efficiency, or delivering Disney’s unmatched entertainment and sports content, every day is a moment to make a difference to partners and to hundreds of millions of people around the world.

A few reasons why we think you’d love working for Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology

Building the future of Disney’s media business: DE&E Technologists are designing and building the infrastructure that will power Disney’s media, advertising, and distribution businesses for years to come.
Reach & Scale: The products and platforms this group builds and operates delight millions of consumers every minute of every day – from Disney+ and Hulu, to ABC News and Entertainment, to ESPN and ESPN+, and much more.
Innovation: We develop and execute groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms and enhance how audiences experience sports, entertainment & news.

DEET Messaging Platform Engineering team

This role is on our DEET Messaging Platform Engineering team. Our mission is to empower personalized experiences and data that drive engagement, revenue, growth, customer delight and brand trust for all of The Walt Disney Company. Our product, the Unified Messaging Platform, helps us keep our guests informed and engaged with content, experiences and brands as diverse as Star Wars, Marvel, Pixar, ABC, ESPN, and NatGeo.

Job Summary:

The Messaging Platform at Disney Streaming powers all communications to users across Disney+, Hulu, ESPN+, and Star+. With the volume of users across these streaming applications, our team is uniquely positioned to design, build, and maintain a feature-rich robust platform that scales for high volumes of traffic. Our platform consists of Java systems fully deployed in AWS across multiple regions, leveraging modern tools and design principles.
Emails, push notifications, in-app messages, and SMS texts originate without our platform to support critical user flows, standard business operations, and marketing/promotional campaigns. At the highest level, our Messaging domain includes message template creation/management, hydrating messages with static and dynamic content per recipient, the delivery of messages, and exposing the lifecycle of each message so that other teams can understand the effectiveness of the communications they trigger through our platform.
The Messaging Routing & Insights squad is looking for an enthusiastic team player to fill our senior software engineer role. You will collaborate with experienced engineers on cutting-edge solutions, making major enhancements to our multi-region, multi-tenant core messaging platform to enable other Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology engineering teams to build solutions that send messages via email, push notification, SMS and in-app experiences. You will be involved in designing, building, launching and evolving a unified messaging platform that will encapsulate the very best of TWDC.

Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:

Build and maintain product-driven initiatives to improve and expand the Unified Messaging Platform, Enhance/improve the underlying codebase to be extensible, reusable, and maintainable. Actively participate in code reviews, offering constructive feedback to improve code quality, system reliability, and performance

Lead the design & enhancement of critical services in UMP, ensuring scalability, performance, and reliability. Research and integrate new technologies into the production environment to optimize core service offerings. Collaborate with your squad, Product Managers, Designers, QA, Operations, and other stakeholders to understand requirements and articulate technical decisions and outcomes.

Promote team support activities such as participating in regular Agile/Scrum ceremonies such as stand-up, retrospectives and sprint planning; provide technical guidance to junior team members, covering code quality, system design, and best practices in software development.

Scheduled on-call duty

Required Education, Experience/Skills/Training:

Basic Qualifications

5+ years of experience building internet-scale web or services applications
Experience in a Java and/or alternative JVM application development environments (Scala/Kotlin)
Familiarity with the AWS environment (awareness of ECS (Docker), S3, EC2, Lambda, CloudWatch, etc)
Solid understanding with software development fundamentals
Proficiency with writing unit, integration and functional tests
Experience with Relational and NoSQL Databases like Postgres, MySql, DynamoDB, Cassandra
Proficiency with standard CI/CD procedures & tools like Jenkins, Github Actions, Spinnaker
Familiarity with service APIs and/or SDKs
Understanding of agile processes, software version control & project management tools (e.g. Github, SVN, Jira, Basecamp)

Preferred Qualifications

Experience or certification with AWS services, including S3, SQS, SNS, Kinesis, Lambda, CloudWatch, or other cloud platforms (Azure, GCP)
Familiarity with big data technologies & tools like Spark, Databricks, EMR
Familiarity with Terraform or other infrastructure as code tooling
Experience building scalable, fault-tolerant, high-uptime systems
Creative and inventive problem solving
Desire and initiative to mentor other developers

Bonus Qualifications

Experience with SES or Salesforce Marketing Cloud
Experience with Serverless solutions
Familiarity with the Scala programming language and the Python programming language

Required Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience.
Minimum of 5+ years related work experience

The hiring range for this position in Seattle, WA is $148,700 to $199,400 per year, Santa Monica, CA is $141,900.00 to $190,300.00 and in San Francisco, CA is $155,400.00 to $208,400.00 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. 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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About Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology:

At Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology, we’re blending imagination and innovation to reimagine the ways people experience and engage with the world’s most beloved stories and products. Our work is wide-ranging and deeply sophisticated. We create amazing experiences, transform the future of media, and build products and platforms that enable the connection between people everywhere and the stories and sports they love.

Disney’s ability to marry world-class technology with one-of-a-kind creativity makes us unique. It is at the heart of our past, present, and future. We are Storytellers and Innovators. Creators and Builders. Entertainers and Engineers.

About The Walt Disney Company:

The Walt Disney Company, together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading diversified international family entertainment and media enterprise that includes three core business segments: Disney Entertainment, ESPN, and Disney Experiences. From humble beginnings as a cartoon studio in the 1920s to its preeminent name in the entertainment industry today, Disney proudly continues its legacy of creating world-class stories and experiences for every member of the family. Disney’s stories, characters and experiences reach consumers and guests from every corner of the globe. With operations in more than 40 countries, our employees and cast members work together to create entertainment experiences that are both universally and locally cherished.

This position is with Disney Streaming Technology LLC, which is part of a business we call Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology.

Disney Streaming Technology LLC is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, military or veteran status, medical condition, genetic information or disability, or any other basis prohibited by federal, state or local law. Disney champions a business environment where ideas and decisions from all people help us grow, innovate, create the best stories and be relevant in a constantly evolving world.

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