Jobs at The Walt Disney Company

Lead backend development for ticketing products: design, build, test, deploy, monitor Java-based services on AWS. Drive code quality, mentor engineers, own projects end-to-end, collaborate with product and TPMs, and improve performance and scalability.

Leads a 2–4 person Applied AI squad delivering AI-powered products across Disney. Responsibilities include identifying business problems, validating feasibility, shipping solutions, reviewing code, pairing on technical challenges, managing stakeholder relationships, and creating reusable components and playbooks. The role is a player-coach position requiring hands-on development with LLMs, agents, embeddings, RAG, tool calling, evaluation systems, SQL, and APIs.

Lead design and implementation of scalable, low-latency ad experience systems. Mentor engineers, review code/tests, build observability, support on-call rotations, prototype ad formats, and translate product requirements into production-ready microservices.

Develop and maintain Python-based generative AI applications and conversational workflows. Implement retrieval/grounding, prompt logic, agentic tool-calling, and integrations with backend services. Support LLMOps practices (observability, evaluation, deployment), create validation datasets, assist deployment and troubleshooting, and use AI-assisted developer tools to improve engineering velocity and reliability.

Leads highly complex, strategic data platform programs from planning through delivery across engineering, product, business, vendor, and partner teams. Builds coordinated plans, manages dependencies, capacity, risks, blockers, communications, and executive reporting. Drives technical decisions, change management, Agile processes, release management, and team-of-teams collaboration while maintaining delivery momentum and quality across consumer-facing digital products.

Leads the architecture, development, and operation of Disney’s AI and machine learning platform for finance. Responsibilities include managing a global engineering team, building production LLM applications and governed data foundations, defining AI/ML roadmaps, enforcing RBAC and engineering quality, guiding build-versus-integrate decisions, partnering with finance stakeholders, and driving enterprise adoption. The role is hands-on, involving architecture, implementation, technical reviews, code review, model evaluation, and delivery oversight.

Build and maintain complex, reusable, testable user interfaces using JavaScript, TypeScript, and React. Develop optimized, scalable applications; fix bugs; investigate production issues; collaborate with backend, product, project management, and engineering teams; conduct code reviews; promote accessibility and quality; evaluate technologies; and deliver projects on schedule using Agile and Lean practices.

Develop and support scalable, high-performance stateful microservices and serverless functions in a multi-region cloud environment. Responsibilities include software design, development, testing, deployment, system optimization, operational metrics, Agile participation, cross-functional collaboration, and mentoring engineers. The role focuses on resilient distributed systems supporting Disney’s streaming platforms and user capabilities.

Leads the design, implementation, scaling, and modernization of hybrid infrastructure platforms, particularly large-scale NFS and S3 object storage systems. Translates architecture into automated deployment patterns, drives IaC and CI/CD practices, supports high-availability production services, leads incident response, and mentors engineers across complex, multi-team initiatives.

Designs and implements Disney’s hyperscale platform services layer supporting Disney+, ESPN, and Hulu. Owns architecture and production software for API gateways, authentication, observability, resiliency, experimentation, and AI-ready infrastructure. Establishes platform standards, golden paths, schemas, SLOs, and reliability practices; leads technical investigations, build-versus-buy decisions, cross-organization roadmaps, and executive-level technical influence. Mentors senior engineers and drives broad adoption of shared platform services across hundreds of engineering teams.

Leads development of scalable Disney media product applications across web and mobile platforms. Translates product requirements into technical solutions, writes and reviews robust tested code, supports application lifecycles, improves engineering standards, collaborates with service teams, and mentors developers. The role emphasizes React, Node.js, mobile applications, APIs, cloud deployment, accessibility, and high availability.

Leads a team building and improving scalable data products, pipelines, and processes supporting guest experiences. Translates business needs into engineering work, executes data product roadmaps, mentors engineers, establishes data and engineering standards, and supports data collection, onboarding, quality, security, and privacy. Collaborates with technical and business stakeholders in a matrixed organization while monitoring technology and consumer privacy trends.

Leads a cross-platform mobile engineering team building Disney+ features for content playback, navigation, presentation, discovery, and personalization. Manages iOS and Android engineers, provides technical direction, develops talent, supports delivery and reliability, and partners with product, design, backend, and data science teams. The role also involves recruiting, process improvement, stakeholder influence, and maintaining a high-performing, inclusive engineering culture.

Designs and scales streaming and batch data pipelines supporting AI applications and advertising technology. Builds embedding workflows, vector-store integrations, retrieval systems, AI-ready data models, and reusable ingestion components. Ensures observability, data quality, schema governance, reliability, recoverability, and auditability. Partners with AI, infrastructure, product, and governance teams to deliver production-ready systems, leads technical execution, mentors junior engineers, and influences architecture.

Develop and maintain a cross-platform JavaScript video player powering Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+ across browsers, televisions, gaming consoles, and set-top boxes. Optimize playback for resource-constrained devices, design architectures, troubleshoot complex issues, and lead testing, telemetry, build, and continuous integration strategies. Collaborate with application, backend, and product teams; mentor engineers; establish development standards; and deliver reliable streaming experiences using modern media, DRM, codec, and adaptive bitrate technologies.

Design and build a shared, feature-rich streaming media playback library for Apple platforms. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, design APIs, research playback integrations, implement features, troubleshoot issues, participate in estimation and planning, and ensure high-quality, maintainable code using Apple technologies (UIKit/SwiftUI, AVKit/AVFoundation) across iPhone, iPad, and tvOS.

As a Software Engineer, you'll design and implement scalable web applications using Salesforce CRM Analytics, delivering projects with high quality while collaborating with teams on architecture and innovative solutions.

Lead strategy and execution for experimentation to improve registration and login success across Disney's global products. Define vision and priorities, partner with engineering, design, data science and regional stakeholders, run and scale experiments, analyze login/registration KPIs, ensure data quality, and influence product roadmap to drive customer access and acquisition.

The Manager of Machine Learning Engineering will lead a team to develop and deploy scalable ML solutions, oversee project direction, and ensure responsible AI practices while fostering cross-functional collaboration at Disney.

The Sr Product Software Engineer will design, implement, and optimize ad decisioning software within a microservice environment, collaborating with data science and utilizing AI/ML technologies.