Senior Software Engineer

The Walt Disney Company • Santa Monica, CA

2d • Remote

About The Position

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. 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 execute groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms and enhance how audiences experience sports, entertainment & news. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Billing team. The team is responsible for building and maintaining our Orders, Invoices and Billing systems which must be scaled to handle high-traffic events like Pay Per Views while also processing the recurring billing cycles for millions of subscribers daily – all while managing the security and reliability of our homegrown systems. As we build out our flexible architecture, the critical contributions of this team will enable our finance/marketing teams to fulfill their vision of growing our subscriber base internationally. Our billing solutions span retail, wholesale and third-party channels and you will collaborate closely with your peers to deliver a world-class solution that processes millions of transactions every day. If you are someone who has a passion for building, reinventing and innovating, then this is the role for you.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience
• Minimum of 5 years of related work experience in software engineering
• Minimum of 2 years of experience programming with at least one of the following languages: Java, Scala or Python
• Experience working at scale and high RPS throughput
• Familiarity with SQL
• Outstanding communication, collaboration skills, and a strong ethic of teamwork
• Quality-first demeanor with a focus on test automation and CI/CD
• Strong analytical skills

Nice To Haves

• Experience working with AI tooling such as Claude Code or Cursor
• Experience with Spinnaker and Kubernetes
• Experience with gRPC
• Experience with AWS, Terraform

Responsibilities

• Design high performance and scalable systems and improve system architecture.
• Work closely with product and engineering leadership to spec-out, design and implement solutions for our partners
• Write, test and release elegant software systems that are robust and scalable production ready using the latest technologies
• Demonstrate engineering excellence by developing high performance software, while following an agile development methodology
• Use a mix of technologies including: Scala, Java, Kafka/Kinesis, DynamoDB and Lambda

Benefits

• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior