Senior Live Data Platform Engineer

The Walt Disney Company; Bristol (CT); On-site; USD 144,000 - 193,000; Full time

Job summary

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join a diverse team building the world’s #1 sports platform services for ESPN. You’ll design, implement, and own features end-to-end using Spring Boot, MongoDB, and Apache Kafka, mentoring peers and driving quality across the codebase.

You will design and operate services for live sports data across Web, mobile, and living room devices, collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure performance,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant technical field.
• 5+ years of industry experience.
• Strong proficiency in backend platform development and architectural patterns (microservices, event-driven, RESTful APIs).
• Experience with cloud-based architecture and deployment.
• Strong Java or JVM language skills; familiarity with Go/Rust is a plus.
• Experience with Kafka and streaming platforms.
• CI/CD pipelines and automation (GitLab, GitHub Actions, TeamCity).
• Relational and/or NoSQL databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra).
• Strong communication and collaboration in a team environment.
• Ability to own features end-to-end from design through production.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop platform services within a distributed system delivering live sports data.
• Own and operate production services including monitoring, troubleshooting, and incident response.
• Collaborate across teams to address performance, scalability, caching, and resiliency needs.
• Mentor junior engineers through code reviews and guidance.
• Contribute to architectural reviews and research emerging technologies.

Skills

Backend development

Microservices

RESTful APIs

Cloud deployment

Java / JVM

Data streaming

CI/CD pipelines

Communication skills

End-to-end ownership

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or relevant technical field

Tools

Apache Kafka

GitLab Pipelines

GitHub Actions

TeamCity

MySQL

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Cassandra

AWS CloudWatch

ECS/Fargate

EC2

S3

Lambda

RDS

Datadog

Grafana

Splunk

GraphQL APIs

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join a diverse team building the world’s #1 sports platform services for ESPN. You’ll design, implement, and own features end-to-end using Spring Boot, MongoDB, and Apache Kafka, mentoring peers and driving quality across the codebase.

You will design and operate services for live sports data across Web, mobile, and living room devices, collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure performance,