Senior Software Developer - AWS / Platform
The Walt Disney Company
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Job summary
The Walt Disney Company in Santa Monica, CA is seeking a Senior Software Developer to lead cloud-focused engineering in AWS and Platform teams. You will build automation, implement IAM security, and collaborate with DevOps, back-end teams, and product partners to deliver scalable cloud-native solutions.
This on-site role requires 5+ years of experience, strong Python skills, and hands-on experience with Terraform, GitHub Actions, Spinnaker, Jenkins, Docker, and Unix/Linux.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, or equivalent practical experience.
- Strong Python development skills, you write production-quality code, not just scripts.
- Experience with deployment and CI/CD tools - Terraform, GitHub Actions, Spinnaker, and Jenkins.
- Experience with platform engineering, primarily backend development using Python
- Experience developing APIs and designing database schemas
- Hands-on AWS Security/IAM administration and policy-creation experience for many users and workloads
- Familiarity with Docker and containerization concepts
- Experience with Unix/Linux systems
- Exhibit clear, succinct written and verbal communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Familiarity with operational troubleshooting tools and techniques
Responsibilities
- Write automation tools for your team and other internal teams to self-service, deploy, detect, alert, and mitigate in our AWS environments
- Build on AWS, including hands-on work with IAM, security policies, and cloud-native services
- Champion and execute best practices and security standards for operating in the cloud
- Troubleshoot and implement appropriate IAM permissions for user access and workloads running in AWS
- Provide guidance and recommendations to development teams on service design and deployments
- Own initiatives and contribute to future solution designs and planning
- Be a go-to technical resource on the team, spanning across levels and cross functional teams
- Monitor and work on inbound issues
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Job ID 10142638 Location Santa Monica, California, United States / New York, New York, United States / Glendale, California, United States Business Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology Date posted Oct. 11, 2026
**This position must sit onsite four (4) days a week in one of our technology offices listed above***
Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology
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.
Job Summary:
The Production Platform Foundations team is a horizontal service team providing both tools and guidance across the organization for operations in AWS. We strive to act as a productivity multiplier, providing consulting and operational support to Application teams to help them drive their adoption of AWS services in conjunction with their existing infrastructure. We work closely with those groups to offer a 'cloud-native' perspective on application architecture, infrastructure, and deployment strategies.
A Senior Software Engineer on the Cloud Account Management (CAM) team is a security-focused cloud engineer responsible for designing, building, and supporting automation and tooling initiatives that further enable secure, compliant, self-service ways of working for both the team and the developer base. In addition, this role will provide operational and technical guidance to Application Development (DevOps) teams that are utilizing the AWS environment at Disney Streaming. This position will report to the Engineering Manager and will interact with other Software Engineers in the Cloud Account Management (CAM) team
What you'll be doing
- Write automation tools for your team and other internal teams to self-service, deploy, detect, alert, and mitigate in our AWS environments
- Build on AWS, including hands-on work with IAM, security policies, and cloud-native services
- Champion and execute best practices and security standards for operating in the cloud
- Troubleshoot and implement appropriate IAM permissions for user access and workloads running in AWS
- Provide guidance and recommendations to development teams on service design and deployments
- Own initiatives and contribute to future solution designs and planning
- Be a go-to technical resource on the team, spanning across levels and cross functional teams
- Monitor and work on inbound issues
Qualifications:
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, or equivalent practical experience
- Strong Python development skills, you write production-quality code, not just scripts
- Experience with deployment and CI/CD tools - Terraform, GitHub Actions, Spinnaker, and Jenkins.
- Experience with platform engineering, primarily backend development using Python
- Experience developing APIs and designing database schemas
- Hands-on AWS Security/IAM administration and policy-creation experience for many users and workloads
- Familiarity with Docker and containerization concepts
- Experience with Unix/Linux systems
- Exhibit clear, succinct written and verbal communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders. Taking a practical, collaborative approach when working with engineers.
- Familiarity with operational troubleshooting tools and techniques
Nice to have, but not required
- Experience leveraging AI as a productivity multiplier
- AWS Certifications
- Experience supporting DevOps teams in mid-to-large-sized organizations, especially in multitenant environments
- Familiarity with SSL Certificate management
- Familiarity with general and AWS-specific networking concepts, including VPC constructs, Firewalling, and DNS
Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology
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.
Job Summary:
The Production Platform Foundations team is a horizontal service team providing both tools and guidance across the organization for operations in AWS. We strive to act as a productivity multiplier, providing consulting and operational support to Application teams to help them drive their adoption of AWS services in conjunction with their existing infrastructure. We work closely with those groups to offer a 'cloud-native' perspective on application architecture, infrastructure, and deployment strategies.
A Senior Software Engineer on the Cloud Account Management (CAM) team is a security-focused cloud engineer responsible for designing, building, and supporting automation and tooling initiatives that further enable secure, compliant, self-service ways of working for both the team and the developer base. In addition, this role will provide operational and technical guidance to Application Development (DevOps) teams that are utilizing the AWS environment at Disney Streaming. This position will report to the Engineering Manager and will interact with other Software Engineers in the Cloud Account Management (CAM) team
What you'll be doing
- Write automation tools for your team and other internal teams to self-service, deploy, detect, alert, and mitigate in our AWS environments
- Build on AWS, including hands-on work with IAM, security policies, and cloud-native services
- Champion and execute best practices and security standards for operating in the cloud
- Troubleshoot and implement appropriate IAM permissions for user access and workloads running in AWS
- Provide guidance and recommendations to development teams on service design and deployments
- Own initiatives and contribute to future solution designs and planning
- Be a go-to technical resource on the team, spanning across levels and cross functional teams
- Monitor and work on inbound issues
Qualifications:
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, or equivalent practical experience
- Strong Python development skills, you write production-quality code, not just scripts
- Experience with deployment and CI/CD tools - Terraform, GitHub Actions, Spinnaker, and Jenkins.
- Experience with platform engineering, primarily backend development using Python
- Experience developing APIs and designing database schemas
- Hands-on AWS Security/IAM administration and policy-creation experience for many users and workloads
- Familiarity with Docker and containerization concepts
- Experience with Unix/Linux systems
- Exhibit clear, succinct written and verbal communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders. Taking a practical, collaborative approach when working with engineers.
- Familiarity with operational troubleshooting tools and techniques
Nice to have, but not required
- Experience leveraging AI as a productivity multiplier
- AWS Certifications
- Experience supporting DevOps teams in mid-to-large-sized organizations, especially in multitenant environments
- Familiarity with SSL Certificate management
- Familiarity with general and AWS-specific networking concepts, including VPC constructs, Firewalling, and DNS
#disneytech
The hiring range for this position in Santa Monica, CA and Glendale, CA is $144,100.00 to $193,200.00 per year and in New York, NY is $150,900.00 to $202,400.00 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.
To learn more about Disney's policies on the use of AI for candidates, click here.
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