The Walt Disney Company · 2 hours ago
Sr Software Engineer
Bristol, CT
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$142K/yr - $190K/yr
5+ years expThe Walt Disney Company is a global organization that combines technology with creativity to build world-class products. The Sr Software Engineer will assist in developing solution architecture for Content Platform Engineering, collaborating with various disciplines to define effective solutions for business problems and contribute to the future state architecture.
Amusement Park and ArcadeAnimationConsumer GoodsDigital MediaE-CommerceMedia and EntertainmentMulti-level MarketingPerforming ArtsResorts
Responsibilities
Contributing to Solutions Architecture with Product and Engineering partners
Contribute Reference Architecture for best practices across all domains, by delivering high and low-level technical design documents and specifications, position papers on technology evaluations, and other artifacts that will assist in architecting our Digital Media Supply Chain
Develops and communicates system/subsystem architecture
Provide technical guidance and evangelize best practices while promoting the best use of company and industry standards
Maintain a deep understanding of our core systems and how they interact with upstream and downstream dependencies
Partner with stakeholders to refine requirements, and propose solutions to problems that span multiple teams
Research, learn, and evangelize widespread adoption of new technologies and architecture patterns
Has participated in incident and problem-solving sessions that require a unique set of skills
Assist in selecting the right software/tool for the task, as well as the implementation to ensure innovative, reliable, and flexible technology solutions that meet or exceed the CPE standards and SLAs
Organizing internal and external resources to solve the technical challenges of our Digital Media Supply Chain
Any other duties needed to help achieve Business Objectives
Qualification
Required
Proven expertise with n-tier architecture and delivery of high volume, cached, fault tolerant, multi-threaded scalable systems
Motivated self-starter with the ability to learn and adapt to new technologies. Can effectively articulate complex ideas and influence others through well-reasoned explanations
Enjoy working in a team setting with engineers of varying experience
Strong communication skills and attention to detail
Understanding of the Media Supply Chain
Deep understanding of async programming models (events, callbacks, etc)
Expertise designing APIs with GraphQL and RESTful services
Experience working with SQL and NoSQL databases
Experience working with data persistence layers
Highly knowledgeable in cloud-based technologies such as AWS EC2, SQS, S3, Lambdas, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, Cloudformation/Terraform, etc
Expertise with full lifecycle of application development, including best practices of unit testing, code reviews, documentation, etc
Experience with build and deployment technologies such as Jenkins and Docker
5+ years relevant industry experience
BS Computer Science or related technical discipline or equivalent experience
Benefits
A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package
The full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits
Company
The Walt Disney Company
The Walt Disney Company started as a cartoon studio and evolves into sports coverage and television shows.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$11BKey Investors
Citibank
2020-04-13Post Ipo Debt· $5B
2020-03-20Post Ipo Debt· $6B
1978-01-06IPO
Leadership Team
Robert Iger
CEO
Christine M. McCarthy
Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Recent News
2025-12-24
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