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Lead Product Software Engineer Data Foundation Platform


Job Location:

Santa Monica, CA - USA

Yearly Salary: USD 170500 - 228600
Posted: 5 October 2026 (6 hours ago)
Application Deadline: 2 January 2027
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Job Posting Title:

Lead Product Software Engineer - Data Foundation Platform

Req ID:

Job Description:

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology

Technology is at the heart of Disneys 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 Disneys media business globally.

The team marries technology with creativity to build world-class products enhance storytelling and drive velocity innovation and scalability for our are Storytellers and Innovators. Creators and Builders. Entertainers and Engineers. We work with every part of The Walt Disney Companys 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 youd love working here:

Building the future of Disneys 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 Disneys technology and products serve as a signature doorway for fans connections with the companys brands and stories. Disney. Hulu. ESPN. ABC. ABC Newsand 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.

Ad Platformsis responsible forDisneys industry-leading ad technology and products driving advertising performance innovation and value in Disneys sports news and entertainment content across all media platforms.

Job Summary:

Were looking for a Lead Software Engineer to join our Data Foundation Platform team. We build and provide cloud platform and services that are used by data engineering teams and data scientists across Disney Entertainment and ESPN Technology particularly in processing data related to our streaming and web-based businesses (e.g. data from Disney Hulu ESPN etc.). We are looking for a rockstar engineer with experience building AI tools and services that help build the knowledge graph and the AI intelligence layer for a suite of disney products. The successful candidate will have a passion for technology and solid coding skills. Knowledge of specific technologies may be helpful but is less important than an ability to learn quickly. We value team members who arent afraid to dive deep when required think for themselves and have great communication and teamwork skills.

Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:

  • Contribute to maintaining updating and expanding existing AI intelligence layer encompassing Snowflake Cortex AWS Bedrock

  • Good understanding of knowledge management and semantic search with experience in Graph databases and Open Search

  • Architect design and code shared libraries that abstract complex business logic to allow consistent functionality across all data pipelines in the Data organization.

  • Collaborate with product managers architects and other engineers to drive the success of the Data&AI strategy.

  • Contribute to developing and documenting both internal and external standards and best practices for configurations naming conventions partitioning strategies and more.

  • Ensure high operational efficiency and quality of the AI projects.

  • Be an active participant and advocate of agile/scrum ceremonies to collaborate and improve processes for our team.

  • Engage with and understand our customers forming relationships that allow us to understand and prioritize both innovative new offerings and incremental platform improvements.

  • Maintain detailed documentation of your work and changes to support data quality and data governance requirements.

Basic Qualifications

  • 7 years software engineering experience in developing large projects

  • Strong algorithmic problem-solving expertise

  • Strong fundamental programming skills in python with knowledge of ML libraries

  • Proficient in AWS Bedrock Snowflake Cortex Databricks Genie.

  • Proficient in Data Engineering technologies like Airflow Spark Databricks Snowflake

  • Strong scripting language experience

Preferred Qualifications

  • Passion to explore new technology and participate in proof of concepts.

  • Enjoy new and meaningful technology or business challenges which require you to think and respond quickly.

  • Passionate to automation data technology & creative innovation.

  • Prior experience building internet scale platforms.

  • It would be awesome if you have a robust portfolio on GitHub and / or open-source contributions you are proud to share

Required Education

  • Bachelors or masters degree in Computer Science or related discipline or its equivalent

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The hiring range for this position in Los Angeles California is $155700 to $208700 per year Seattle WA is $163100 to $218700 and San Francisco CA is $170500 to $228600 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidates 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.

Job Posting Segment:

Commerce Data & Identity

Job Posting Primary Business:

PE - Sports News & Entertainment Enablement

Primary Job Posting Category:

Product Software Engineering

Employment Type:

Full time

Primary City State Region Postal Code:

Santa Monica CA USA

Alternate City State Region Postal Code:

USA - CA - Market St USA - WA - 925 4th Ave

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Required Experience:

IC


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