Software Engineer I - Observability & Telemetry

5014 Disney Entertainment & Sports LLC; Glendale (CA); On-site; USD 98,000 - 131,000; Full time

Job summary

Disney Entertainment & ESPN Product & Technology in Glendale, CA is seeking a Software Engineer I to contribute to observability and telemetry tooling. You will implement features, fix bugs, and help scale our streaming platforms with guidance from senior engineers.

This entry‑level role offers hands‑on experience with AWS, Kubernetes, and IaC, plus code reviews, pair programming, and on‑call shadowing to grow your skills while delivering value to a large technology platform.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in Go or Python and basic software dev practices.
• Git version control, testing, debugging in an existing codebase.
• Familiarity with cloud concepts; interest in AWS and Kubernetes in production.
• Intro to observability: metrics, logs, tracing, alerting, or motivation to learn quickly.
• Ability to communicate clearly and collaborate in a distributed team.

Responsibilities

• Develop, test, and document observability features (metrics, logs, traces, dashboards).
• Fix bugs and address technical debt with guidance from senior teammates.
• Write clean, well‑tested code aligned to team standards.
• Learn patterns for high‑volume telemetry ingestion and storage.
• Collaborate with service teams to instrument and validate telemetry quality.
• Build and update dashboards and visualization of system health.

Skills

Go

Python

Git

AWS

Kubernetes

Observability concepts

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or comparable field

Tools

Grafana

Prometheus

OpenTelemetry

Datadog

New Relic

Job description

Disney Entertainment & ESPN Product & Technology in Glendale, CA is seeking a Software Engineer I to contribute to observability and telemetry tooling. You will implement features, fix bugs, and help scale our streaming platforms with guidance from senior engineers.

This entry‑level role offers hands‑on experience with AWS, Kubernetes, and IaC, plus code reviews, pair programming, and on‑call shadowing to grow your skills while delivering value to a large technology platform.