Senior Software Engineer - Platform Engineer, Infrastructure

Overview

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.

• 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.

Ad Platforms is responsible for Disney’s industry‑leading ad technology and products – driving advertising performance, innovation, and value in Disney’s sports, news, and entertainment content across all media platforms.

We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our infrastructure team within Disney’s Ad Technology organization. Our team’s 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.

• Evaluate, prototype, and integrate new AI tooling to enhance team and organizational capabilities.

• Design and develop AI agents and MCP servers that streamline workflows for both internal and cross‑org developers.

• Stay current with emerging technologies and assess their applicability to team objectives.

• Design, build, and maintain Terraform modules enabling developer self‑service infrastructure provisioning.

• Manage and evolve Spinnaker pipelines to support diverse deployment patterns.

• Define, document, and continuously improve CI/CD processes and best practices for the organization.

• Build custom internal tooling that improves developer productivity across the organization utilizing Python, Go, and Type Script.

• Identify pain points experienced by engineering teams within the Ads organization and deliver purpose‑built solutions.

• Create reusable, well‑documented tools that scale across multiple teams.

• Contribute to architectural decisions and establish technical standards for the team.

• Take end‑to‑end ownership of projects from scoping through delivery, driving them to completion with minimal oversight.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field (Master’s preferred), or equivalent experience. 5+ years of backend or platform engineering experience, with a track record of building scalable APIs.

• Proficient in Python, Type Script, or Go.

• Expertise with AWS cloud provider.

• 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.

• Experience with services meshes within Kubernetes such as Istio.

• Experience developing developer tooling.

• Strong understanding of large, complex…