Lead CDN & Caching Engineer

Disneyland Resort; United States; On-site; USD 129,000 - 182,000; Full time

Job summary

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is seeking a Lead Content Distribution Engineer to drive caching, CDN edge management, and global distribution strategy. This role focuses on operational excellence across the Disney Distribution Mesh and associated CDN configurations.

You will participate in tooling development, mentor teammates, and coordinate with operations, performance, and engineering teams to solve caching challenges for Disney’s streaming products.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 7 years of experience managing caching solutions.
• Understanding of streaming video protocols (HLS) and how it interacts with caching.
• Ability to perform Network Troubleshooting.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• Experience in a Content Distribution Network environment.
• Knowledge of video players and their impact on cache logic.
• Bachelor's degree required.

Responsibilities

• Configure and manage CDN configurations in the Disney Distribution Mesh.
• Actively manage OpenCache deployments with ISPs globally.
• Review performance metrics across caching infrastructure for improvements.
• Review capacity and align with global distribution strategy.
• Oversee Day-to-Day operations of Disney Distribution Mesh.
• Develop tooling to integrate 3rd party CDNs into a unified control plane.
• Act as Incident Owner for CDN issues with cross-functional teams.
• Provide consultation on caching solutions to internal stakeholders.
• Provide senior level on-call evaluation and escalation.

Skills

Caching management

Network troubleshooting

HLS streaming

Effective communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Varnish

NGINX

HAProxy

AWS

GCP

Python

SSL/TLS

Ansible/AWX

Job description

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is seeking a Lead Content Distribution Engineer to drive caching, CDN edge management, and global distribution strategy. This role focuses on operational excellence across the Disney Distribution Mesh and associated CDN configurations.

You will participate in tooling development, mentor teammates, and coordinate with operations, performance, and engineering teams to solve caching challenges for Disney’s streaming products.