Jobs at The Walt Disney Company

Own the technical architecture and strategic direction of Disney’s News & Entertainment machine learning platform. Lead personalization, recommendation systems, ML infrastructure, data pipelines, model training, online serving, reliability, incident response, and platform standards across major media brands. Drive metrics-based business outcomes, cross-organizational engineering initiatives, technology adoption, architecture reviews, and mentorship of senior engineers.

Leads travel editorial strategy and execution for National Geographic’s print, digital, social, video, and audio platforms. Conceives, commissions, edits, and produces narrative travel stories and recurring franchises, including Best of the World. Manages freelance contributors, collaborates with creative and marketing teams, develops cross-platform storytelling, represents the brand at industry events, and serves as a media spokesperson.

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.

Design, build, and operate scalable, fault-tolerant backend services using Functional Scala and other backend languages. Deploy and manage cloud-native systems on AWS with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), observability (Datadog), and CI/CD (Spinnaker/Istio/Terraform). Collaborate with cross-functional teams, perform code reviews, mentor junior engineers, and follow best practices for reliability, security, and lifecycle maintenance.

Build and operate large-scale batch and streaming data pipelines and real-time feature infrastructure to support production ML. Develop ML-adjacent services, ensure reliability/observability, participate in on-call and incident response, and collaborate with ML, data, and platform teams to meet latency, availability, and data quality requirements.

Designs and delivers physical network infrastructure for building and campus projects: cabling, telecom rooms, optical backbones, switch port planning, wireless AP validation, commissioning, site audits, contractor coordination, project cost estimates, and as-built documentation. Provides construction administration, vendor sourcing, and maintains network infrastructure at specified facilities.

Design, build, and operate high-performance, scalable backend services for media playback. Lead architecture, author technical proposals, participate in on-call rotations, mentor engineers, and contribute to technical community knowledge-sharing.

Produce and coordinate national weather coverage: create daily weather briefs and WSI/IBM graphics, brief anchors and producers, source and clear video, support correspondent pieces, produce social content, and research and pitch weather, climate and science stories.

The Senior Software Engineer will design, develop, and deploy scalable software solutions using Scala and various backend languages, focusing on cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, and DevOps practices.

The Sr Software Engineer will design, develop, and maintain scalable systems for managing live and linear content, collaborating with cross-functional teams and ensuring platform stability.

Design and build tier-1 microservices and backend components for the Unified Messaging Platform using Java/Scala. Implement asynchronous cloud data transformations, ensure scalability and reliability, lead technical design and code/architecture reviews, participate in Agile ceremonies, provide rotational on-call support, own features end-to-end, and collaborate with product, QA, operations, and other stakeholders.

Manage day-to-day commercial scheduling and sponsorship team functions; coordinate sponsorship elements (logos, animations, voiceover); execute client deal points, placements, billboards, live formats, sport guidelines, and product exclusivity; produce and publish domestic network commercial logs; participate in weekend/holiday on-call rotation and support training and IT testing initiatives.

Leads executive operations for a global technology organization by managing strategic initiatives, budgets, forecasts, portfolio analysis, project accounting, contracts, communications, onboarding, and training. Partners with engineering, product, program, portfolio, and finance leaders to improve operational efficiency, standardize workflows, monitor financial health, identify risks, and ensure strategic objectives and deliverables are achieved.

Develop and produce long- and short-form YouTube content for Star Wars and Star Wars Kids channels. Manage creative strategy, production, programming, livestreams, community engagement, agency partnerships, localization, brand compliance, and platform growth initiatives. Use data and A/B testing to optimize content, oversee multiple projects and timelines, and manage coordinator talent within a matrixed organization.

Leads personalization analytics for Disney+ and Hulu by designing and interpreting A/B tests, conducting statistical and causal analyses, improving datasets and instrumentation, and translating user behavior data into strategic product recommendations. The role partners with product, engineering, business leadership, and machine learning teams, develops reporting and visualization foundations, manages analytical projects end to end, and uses AI tools to accelerate analytics engineering and stakeholder insights.

Lead an Apple platform engineering team building foundational components for Disney+ and Hulu across iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, and Apple Vision Pro. Own technical direction, code quality, team execution, OKR alignment, cross-discipline collaboration with Product/Design/QA, career development, and project delivery while driving platform standards and process improvements.

Designs and builds AI-driven distributed systems for streaming observability and reliability. Develops agentic systems, machine learning models, real-time telemetry pipelines, scalable APIs, anomaly detection, predictive insights, and automated root cause analysis. Partners cross-functionally to integrate AI into incident response and operational workflows, contributes to architecture and code reviews, establishes engineering standards, owns production components, and mentors junior engineers.

Lead vision and execution for on-demand news video products across mobile, web, and connected TV. Define strategy, success metrics, and roadmaps; partner with engineering, design, editorial, and data to deliver scalable streaming and VOD experiences. Drive launches, experimentation, and continuous improvement focused on audience engagement, performance, reliability, and journalistic integrity.

The Senior Data Engineer designs and optimizes data pipelines for marketing analytics, ensuring data accuracy and collaborating with teams to meet reporting needs.