Remote Lead CDN & Cache Engineer

5014 Disney Entertainment & Sports LLC; Town of Texas (WI); Hybrid; USD 135,000 - 182,000; Full time

Job summary

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is seeking a Lead Content Distribution Engineer to manage caching solutions and CDN configurations across the Disney Distribution Mesh. The role emphasizes operational excellence, performance optimization, and global incident handling.

The candidate will work with product engineering to integrate third‑party CDNs, review capacity against distribution strategy, and provide senior level on‑call support.

Qualifications

• Minimum 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 skills.
• Experience in a Content Delivery Network environment.
• Knowledge of video players and cache logic impact.

Responsibilities

• Focus on operations & management of cache solutions.
• Support product driven initiatives and projects.
• Develop engineering tooling and automation.
• Training & mentoring.

Skills

Caching solutions

CDN management

Streaming protocols

Network troubleshooting

Effective communication

CDN experience

Python scripting

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Varnish

NGINX

HAProxy

AWS

GCP

Job description

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is seeking a Lead Content Distribution Engineer to manage caching solutions and CDN configurations across the Disney Distribution Mesh. The role emphasizes operational excellence, performance optimization, and global incident handling.

The candidate will work with product engineering to integrate third‑party CDNs, review capacity against distribution strategy, and provide senior level on‑call support.