Lead CDN & Caching Engineer — Edge Networking Leader

confidential; United States; On-site; USD 131,000 - 184,000; Full time

Job summary

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is seeking a Lead Content Distribution Engineer to lead caching and CDN edge services across the Disney Distribution Mesh. You will oversee OpenCache deployments with global ISPs, review performance metrics, and guide incident management with CDN support teams.

The role focuses on operational excellence, tooling development, and collaboration with engineering and operations to maintain scalable distribution for Disney’s media portfolio.

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.
• Bachelor's degree required.

Responsibilities

• Focus on operations & management of cache solutions.
• Develop engineering tooling and automation.
• Training & mentoring.
• Collaborate with distributed engineering teams.

Skills

Caching expertise

CDN operations

Networking troubleshooting

Streaming protocols

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 lead caching and CDN edge services across the Disney Distribution Mesh. You will oversee OpenCache deployments with global ISPs, review performance metrics, and guide incident management with CDN support teams.

The role focuses on operational excellence, tooling development, and collaboration with engineering and operations to maintain scalable distribution for Disney’s media portfolio.