Software Engineer II; Cloud Provisioning

Job Summary

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 worldwide. Technology is at the heart of Disney's past, present, and future.

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 implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms and solve complex and distinctive technical problems.

Cloud Infrastructure is a horizontal platform team that builds internal products, automation, and guardrails that make it easier and safer for engineering teams to build and run on AWS. We partner with application teams across the organization to provide a cloud‑native perspective on architecture, infrastructure, security, and delivery.

• Build and maintain cloud automation and developer tooling that supports provisioning, deployment, and operations in AWS.
• Create and evolve reusable infrastructure as code modules and patterns that teams can safely adopt.
• Improve reliability and operability through observability, alerting, and actionable signals over noise.
• Participate in incident response, investigations, and RCAs, then turn learnings into permanent platform improvements.
• Partner with teams to unblock delivery by improving platform capabilities and developer experience, including documentation and paved road workflows.

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience building on public cloud, preferably AWS.
• Experience with Terraform Cloud / Terraform Enterprise.
• Experience writing production‑quality code in at least one general‑purpose language such as Python, Go, Java, or Type Script.
• Hands‑on experience with infrastructure as code and automation workflows, Terraform preferred.
• Understanding of CI/CD concepts and how to build repeatable delivery pipelines.
• Working knowledge of Linux and container‑based workloads.
• Solid fundamentals in networking and distributed systems, including VPC concepts, DNS, TLS, and service‑to‑service connectivity.
• Ability to balance security, reliability, and delivery by proposing pragmatic solutions with clear tradeoffs.
• Clear written and verbal communication with both technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Comfort operating in ambiguity, shifting priorities, and a fast‑changing environment.

• BS in Computer Science or related technical discipline or its equivalent.

• AWS Certification (Associate or above).
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins and Spinnaker.

The hiring range for this position in Santa Monica, CA / Glendale, CA is $ - $ per year, in San Francisco, CA is $ - $ and in Seattle, WA is $ - $ 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,…