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5128 WABC Television (New York), LLC

Senior Software Engineer, Platform Engineering

5128 WABC Television (New York), LLC, Glendale, California, us, 91222

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Apply remote type Primarily On-Site / Occasionally from Home locations Glendale, CA, USA time type Full time posted on Posted 30+ Days Ago job requisition id 10124974

Job Posting Title: Senior Software Engineer, Platform Engineering

Req ID: 10124974

Job Description: Technology is at the heart of Disneys 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 Disneys 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 Companys media portfolio to advance the technological foundation and consumer media touch points serving millions of people around the world. Here are a few reasons why we think youd love working here: Building the future of Disneys 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, Disneys technology and products serve as a signature doorway for fans' connections with the companys brands and stories. Disney+. Hulu. ESPN. ABC. ABC Newsand 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 implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms, and solve complex and distinctive technical problems.

Ad Platforms is responsible for Disneys industry-leading ad technology and products driving advertising performance, innovation, and value in Disneys sports, news, and entertainment content, across all media platforms. Were looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Platform Engineering infrastructure team within Disneys Ad Technology organization. Our teams mission is to provide automation, custom tooling, and infrastructure support that will enable teams across the organization to deliver products quickly and safely. As a Senior Software Engineer on this team, you will have a deep understanding of cloud infrastructure, containerization, and automation, with hands-on experience in designing, deploying, and maintaining scalable platforms. You'll develop tools and automation that enable developers to deploy and debug services easily and efficiently. You'll work closely with multiple teams of engineers to design new solutions that streamline our operations and help our engineers scale. Responsibilities and Duties of the Role: Build and maintain internal tools for use within the team and for the larger organization utilizing TypeScript, Python, and Go.

Improve our core Terraform modules to ensure they meet user needs when deploying cloud-based services.

Join the existing on-call rotation to support urgent production issues as well as user requests for assistance with tooling and pipelines.

Build Helm charts for Kubernetes deployments

Utilize Datadog for monitoring and observability and use it to track down hard to solve issues.

Maintain and improve our existing Istio networking implementation for use across all teams

Partner with other teams to identify pain points and understand how we can work to resolve them through either existing tooling or by creating a new optimal solution

Basic Qualifications: Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equitable work experience

5+ years of backend or platform engineering experience, with a track record of building scalable APIs

Proficient in Python, Typescript, and/or Go

Expertise with AWS cloud provider and its infrastructure as a service offerings

Familiarity with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes and Docker

Knowledge of infrastructure as code such as Terraform

Strong understanding of cloud-native design patterns, secure AI API integration, and service scalability

Strong problem-solving abilities and solid production debugging skills

Excellent communication skills, with the ability to collaborate across multiple engineering teams

Preferred Qualifications: Masters degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, and/or related certification/s

Experience with services meshes within Kubernetes such as Istio

Experience developing developer tooling

Strong understanding of large, complex distributed systems

Experience implementing and improving monitoring and alerting systems. Building dashboards to help better visualize the information

Ability to architect and document new services and features

#DISNEYTECH The hiring range for this position in Glendale, California is $136,038 to $182,490 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidates 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.

Job Posting Segment: Ad Platforms

Job Posting Primary Business: AP - Software Engineering

Primary Job Posting Category: Software Engineer

Employment Type: Full time

Primary City, State, Region, Postal Code: Glendale, CA, USA

Alternate City, State, Region, Postal Code: Date Posted: 2025-07-03

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