Senior Product Software Engineer - Golang
The Walt Disney Company
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Job summary
The Walt Disney Company seeks a Senior Product Software Engineer (Golang) in Glendale, CA to lead scalable backend services for the News Distribution Platform. You will drive architectural direction, deliver robust APIs, partner with product teams, and raise the bar on reliability and performance.
Bring 5+ years building distributed systems, strong Golang/JAVA experience, and expertise in AWS, caching, CI/CD, and observability. Join a team delivering world‑class media experiences at scale.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience.
- 5+ years of experience building and operating highly available, distributed backend systems in production environments.
- Strong experience designing and developing large-scale backend services using Golang (preferred) and/or Java.
- Experience deploying and scaling services within cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS.
- Deep understanding of caching technologies (Redis, Memcached, or similar).
- Proven leadership, coaching, and mentoring skills, with ability to inspire and empower a team.
- Strong problem-solving skills with a proactive, detail-oriented approach.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and source control systems (Git, Gitlab, Jenkins).
- Experience with observability tools for metrics, logging, and monitoring (Datadog, Grafana).
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum development environments.
- Strong communication and collaboration in fast-paced environments.
Responsibilities
- Own complex technical initiatives end-to-end, from design through production deployment and operations.
- Set architectural direction of backend distribution APIs and services for high availability and low latency at scale.
- Partner with product, editorial, and engineering stakeholders to translate requirements into robust technical solutions.
- Prioritize initiatives and workstreams to deliver high-impact outcomes while mitigating risks.
- Champion engineering best practices across code quality, testing, CI/CD, observability, and incident response.
- Set standards for operational excellence, including monitoring and on-call processes.
- Perform thorough code reviews and maintain high standards of rigor and maintainability.
- Mentor engineers and foster a culture of ownership and collaboration.
- Drive performance optimization across services, caching layers, and data stores.
- Contribute to technical documentation and knowledge sharing across teams.
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Job description
Job ID 10157838 Location Glendale, California, United States Business Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology Date posted Oct. 08, 2026
Technology is at the heart of Disney’s past, present, and future. Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is a global organization of engineers, product developers, designers, technologists, data scientists, and more – all working to build and advance the technological backbone for Disney’s media business globally.
The team marries technology with creativity to build world-class products, enhance storytelling, and drive velocity, innovation, and scalability for our businesses.We are Storytellers and Innovators. Creators and Builders. Entertainers and Engineers. We work with every part of The Walt Disney Company’s media portfolio to advance the technological foundation and consumer media touch points serving millions of people around the world.
Here are a few reasons why we think you’d love working here:
- Building the future of Disney’s media: Our Technologists are designing and building the products and platforms that will power our media, advertising, and distribution businesses for years to come.
- Reach, Scale & Impact: More than ever, Disney’s technology and products serve as a signature doorway for fans' connections with the company’s brands and stories. Disney+. Hulu. ESPN. ABC. ABC News…and many more. These products and brands – and the unmatched stories, storytellers, and events they carry – matter to millions of people globally.
- Innovation: We develop and implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms, and solve complex and distinctive technical problems.
Product Engineering is a unified team responsible for the engineering of Disney Entertainment & ESPN digital and streaming products and platforms. This includes product engineering, media engineering, quality assurance, engineering behind personalization, commerce, lifecycle, and identity.
The News Distribution Platform team is responsible for building the data pipelines and core distribution services that deliver trusted journalism and breaking news experiences to millions of guests across ABC News, Good Morning America, and local television stations in eight major markets, including Los Angeles and New York. Our services enable real-time publishing, syndication, and distribution of content across web, mobile, and connected TV platforms.
We operate systems that sit in the critical path of the News organization, where performance, scalability, and reliability are paramount—especially during high-profile live events and breaking news moments. Our mission is to ensure seamless, resilient, and low-latency content delivery at scale while continuously modernizing and evolving our platform.
As a Senior Product Software Engineer, you will play a key role in shaping the technical direction of the News Distribution Platform. You will lead the design and delivery of scalable backend services, influence architectural decisions, and partner across product, design, and engineering teams to power exceptional guest experiences. You will be expected to operate with a high degree of ownership and accountability, raise the engineering bar, and proactively drive improvements that enhance reliability, performance, and developer effectiveness.
Responsibilities:
- Own complex technical initiatives end-to-end, from technical design through production deployment and operational excellence.
- Set the architectural direction of backend distribution APIs and services to ensure high availability, resiliency, and low latency at scale.
- Partner with product, editorial, and engineering stakeholders to translate business requirements into robust technical solutions.
- Strategically prioritize initiatives and technical workstreams to deliver the highest-impact and most time-sensitive outcomes, while proactively identifying, communicating, and mitigating risks to ensure successful execution.
- Champion engineering best practices across code quality, testing, CI/CD, observability, and incident response.
- Set standards for operational excellence, including monitoring, alerting, on-call processes, and post-incident analysis.
- Perform thorough code reviews and uphold a high standard of technical rigor and maintainability.
- Mentor and coach engineers, fostering a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Drive performance optimization initiatives across services, caching layers, and data stores.
- Contribute to technical documentation and promote knowledge sharing across teams.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience.
- 5+ years of experience building and operating highly available, distributed backend systems in production environments.
- Strong experience designing and developing large-scale backend services using Golang (preferred) and/or Java.
- Experience deploying and scaling services within cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS.
- Deep understanding of caching technologies (such as Redis, Memcached, or similar).
- Proven leadership, coaching, and mentoring skills, with the ability to inspire and empower a team towards achieving business goals.
- Strong problem-solving skills with a proactive, detail-oriented approach.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and source control systems (e.g., Git, Gitlab, Jenkins).
- Experience with observability tools for metrics, logging, and monitoring (e.g., Datadog, Grafana).
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum development environments.
- Strong communication skills and a commitment to collaboration in a fast-paced, guest-focused environment.
Technology is at the heart of Disney’s past, present, and future. Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is a global organization of engineers, product developers, designers, technologists, data scientists, and more – all working to build and advance the technological backbone for Disney’s media business globally.
The team marries technology with creativity to build world-class products, enhance storytelling, and drive velocity, innovation, and scalability for our businesses.We are Storytellers and Innovators. Creators and Builders. Entertainers and Engineers. We work with every part of The Walt Disney Company’s media portfolio to advance the technological foundation and consumer media touch points serving millions of people around the world.
Here are a few reasons why we think you’d love working here:
- Building the future of Disney’s media: Our Technologists are designing and building the products and platforms that will power our media, advertising, and distribution businesses for years to come.
- Reach, Scale & Impact: More than ever, Disney’s technology and products serve as a signature doorway for fans' connections with the company’s brands and stories. Disney+. Hulu. ESPN. ABC. ABC News…and many more. These products and brands – and the unmatched stories, storytellers, and events they carry – matter to millions of people globally.
- Innovation: We develop and implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms, and solve complex and distinctive technical problems.
Product Engineering is a unified team responsible for the engineering of Disney Entertainment & ESPN digital and streaming products and platforms. This includes product engineering, media engineering, quality assurance, engineering behind personalization, commerce, lifecycle, and identity.
The News Distribution Platform team is responsible for building the data pipelines and core distribution services that deliver trusted journalism and breaking news experiences to millions of guests across ABC News, Good Morning America, and local television stations in eight major markets, including Los Angeles and New York. Our services enable real-time publishing, syndication, and distribution of content across web, mobile, and connected TV platforms.
We operate systems that sit in the critical path of the News organization, where performance, scalability, and reliability are paramount—especially during high-profile live events and breaking news moments. Our mission is to ensure seamless, resilient, and low-latency content delivery at scale while continuously modernizing and evolving our platform.
As a Senior Product Software Engineer, you will play a key role in shaping the technical direction of the News Distribution Platform. You will lead the design and delivery of scalable backend services, influence architectural decisions, and partner across product, design, and engineering teams to power exceptional guest experiences. You will be expected to operate with a high degree of ownership and accountability, raise the engineering bar, and proactively drive improvements that enhance reliability, performance, and developer effectiveness.
Responsibilities:
- Own complex technical initiatives end-to-end, from technical design through production deployment and operational excellence.
- Set the architectural direction of backend distribution APIs and services to ensure high availability, resiliency, and low latency at scale.
- Partner with product, editorial, and engineering stakeholders to translate business requirements into robust technical solutions.
- Strategically prioritize initiatives and technical workstreams to deliver the highest-impact and most time-sensitive outcomes, while proactively identifying, communicating, and mitigating risks to ensure successful execution.
- Champion engineering best practices across code quality, testing, CI/CD, observability, and incident response.
- Set standards for operational excellence, including monitoring, alerting, on-call processes, and post-incident analysis.
- Perform thorough code reviews and uphold a high standard of technical rigor and maintainability.
- Mentor and coach engineers, fostering a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Drive performance optimization initiatives across services, caching layers, and data stores.
- Contribute to technical documentation and promote knowledge sharing across teams.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience.
- 5+ years of experience building and operating highly available, distributed backend systems in production environments.
- Strong experience designing and developing large-scale backend services using Golang (preferred) and/or Java.
- Experience deploying and scaling services within cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS.
- Deep understanding of caching technologies (such as Redis, Memcached, or similar).
- Proven leadership, coaching, and mentoring skills, with the ability to inspire and empower a team towards achieving business goals.
- Strong problem-solving skills with a proactive, detail-oriented approach.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and source control systems (e.g., Git, Gitlab, Jenkins).
- Experience with observability tools for metrics, logging, and monitoring (e.g., Datadog, Grafana).
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum development environments.
- Strong communication skills and a commitment to collaboration in a fast-paced, guest-focused environment.
The hiring range for this position in California is $144,100.00 to $193,200.00 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region, job‑related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long‑term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.
At Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology, we’re blending imagination and innovation to reimagine the ways people experience and engage with the world’s most beloved stories and products. Our work is wide‑ranging and deeply sophisticated. We create amazing experiences, transform the future of media, and build products and platforms that enable the connection between people everywhere and the stories and sports they love.
Disney’s ability to marry world‑class technology with one‑of‑a‑kind creativity makes us unique. It is at the heart of our past, present, and future. We are Storytellers and Innovators. Creators and Builders. Entertainers and Engineers.
The Walt Disney Company, together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading diversified international family entertainment and media enterprise that includes three core business segments: Disney Entertainment, ESPN, and Disney Experiences. From humble beginnings as a cartoon studio in the 1920s to its preeminent name in the entertainment industry today, Disney proudly continues its legacy of creating world‑class stories and experiences for every member of the family. Disney’s stories, characters and experiences reach consumers and guests from every corner of the globe. With operations in more than 40 countries, our employees and cast members work together to create entertainment experiences that are both universally and locally cherished.
This position is with Disney Entertainment & Sports LLC, which is part of a business we call Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology.
Disney Entertainment & Sports LLC is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, military or veteran status, medical condition, genetic information or disability, or any other basis prohibited by federal, state or local law. Disney champions a business environment where ideas and decisions from all people help us grow, innovate, create the best stories and be relevant in a constantly evolving world.
The Walt Disney Company and its Affiliated Companies are Equal Employment Opportunity employers and welcome all job seekers including individuals with disabilities and veterans with disabilities. If you have a disability and believe you need a reasonable accommodation in order to search for a job opening or apply for a position, visit the Disney candidate disability accommodations FAQs. We will only respond to those requests that are related to the accessibility of the online application system due to a disability.
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