Lead Software Engineer at Disney will focus on service reliability, scalability, and resilience of cloud-based services supporting Disney Parks, Experiences, and Products. Responsibilities include establishing SLIs, proactive alert development, leading cross-functional projects, root cause analysis, infrastructure optimization, capacity planning, documentation, IaC using Terraform and AWS CDK, service monitoring, collaboration with development teams, and mentorship.  The role requires expertise in Python, AWS services, serverless and containerized environments, CI/CD, and observability tools.

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 <h4>Job Summary:</h4> 
 <div class="additional-field-value-razor">At Disney, we’re storytellers. We make the impossible, possible. The Walt Disney Company (TWDC) is a world-class entertainment and technological leader. Walt’s passion was to continuously envision new ways to move audiences around the world—a passion that remains our touchstone in an enterprise that stretches from theme parks, resorts and a cruise line to sports, news, movies and a variety of other businesses. Uniting each endeavor is a commitment to creating and delivering unforgettable experiences — and we’re constantly looking for new ways to enhance these exciting experiences.<h3></h3><h3>Job Summary:</h3>Are you passionate about working on large-scale, high-performance software systems with a strong focus on service reliability? Join our team as a&nbsp;Lead Software Engineer&nbsp;dedicated to ensuring the availability, scalability, and resilience of our cloud-based services. In this role, you’ll leverage your expertise in service reliability and cloud platforms to create scalable solutions that support the entire&nbsp;Disney Parks, Experiences, and Products&nbsp;segment. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, offering technical expertise to develop products and tooling, while ensuring the smooth delivery of features and capabilities for the&nbsp;Data Platform and Products&nbsp;team, ultimately enhancing the magic of our guests' experiences.<h3>Responsibilities:</h3><ul><li>Service Reliability: Establish key&nbsp;service-level indicators (SLIs)&nbsp;and continuously monitor them to ensure system reliability, availability, and performance. Proactively develop&nbsp;alerts&nbsp;and&nbsp;automated responses&nbsp;to prevent service degradation or outages.</li><li>Lead Cross-Functional Projects: Drive complex projects across multiple teams and disciplines, ensuring high availability, resilience, and minimal downtime of services.</li><li>Root Cause Analysis &amp; Incident Response: Conduct deep analysis of system issues, identify root causes, and define actionable strategies for remediation. Lead post-mortem analysis and continuous improvement efforts.</li><li>Infrastructure &amp; System Optimization: Focus on the high availability, scalability, and performance of services in production environments, ensuring they meet business and customer needs.</li><li>Capacity Planning &amp; Right-Sizing: Lead efforts to ensure that services are properly scaled for current and future workloads. Engage in&nbsp;capacity planning&nbsp;to optimize resource utilization.</li><li>Documentation &amp; Runbooks: Maintain detailed documentation and create robust runbooks for incident management and troubleshooting, ensuring smooth responses to service disruptions.</li><li>Cloud Infrastructure &amp; IaC: Utilize tools such as&nbsp;Terraform&nbsp;and&nbsp;AWS CDK&nbsp;to manage and automate infrastructure as code (IaC) in a cloud-native environment.</li><li>Service Monitoring &amp; Observability: Oversee observability and monitoring across the platform (AWS, serverless, containers, Snowflake, etc.), ensuring actionable insights are available for operational teams.</li><li>Collaboration with Development Teams: Work closely with developers to ensure that applications are designed for service reliability, scalability, and maintainability.</li><li>GitOps-Driven Environment: Drive infrastructure changes and service deployment using GitOps practices to ensure consistency and traceability in deployments.</li><li>Code Quality: Write clean, performant, and well-documented application code with a focus on reliability and service availability.</li><li>Automation &amp; Tooling: Build and maintain automated deployment pipelines and tooling for monitoring and platform testing.</li><li>Mentorship: Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior engineers and assist in technical decision-making and code reviews.</li></ul><h3>Qualifications:</h3><ul><li>Experience: 7+ years of experience in software development, with at least 3 years focused on&nbsp;service reliability,&nbsp;data management, and&nbsp;distributed systems.</li><li>Technical Expertise: Expert-level coding skills in&nbsp;Python, with a deep understanding of performance and resource optimization, including considerations of space and time complexity.</li><li>Cloud Infrastructure: Strong experience with&nbsp;AWS&nbsp;services such as&nbsp;Lambda, ECS Fargate, S3, VPC, Kinesis, EventBridge, and related components.</li><li>Serverless &amp; Containers: Proven experience in working with&nbsp;serverless&nbsp;(AWS Lambda) and&nbsp;containerized environments&nbsp;(Docker, ECS, EKS).</li><li>Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Proficiency with IaC tools such as&nbsp;Terraform&nbsp;and&nbsp;AWS CDK&nbsp;to automate infrastructure management.</li><li>CI/CD &amp; DevOps: Extensive experience in&nbsp;CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and general&nbsp;DevOps&nbsp;practices for continuous integration and deployment.</li><li>Observability: Hands-on experience with&nbsp;observability&nbsp;and&nbsp;monitoring tools&nbsp;such as&nbsp;DataDog,&nbsp;AppDynamics,&nbsp;New Relic, or similar suites.</li><li>Agile &amp; DevOps: Strong proponent of&nbsp;Agile&nbsp;methodologies and application of&nbsp;DevOps&nbsp;principles for continuous improvement.</li></ul><h3>Education:</h3><ul><li>Bachelor’s degree in&nbsp;Computer Science,&nbsp;Engineering,&nbsp;Information Technology, or related field, or equivalent experience.</li></ul><h3>Preferred Qualifications:</h3><ul><li>Certifications&nbsp;in AWS, Snowflake, or relevant service reliability tools.</li><li>In-depth experience with&nbsp;observability suites&nbsp;and&nbsp;Application Performance Management (APM)&nbsp;tooling such as&nbsp;DataDog,&nbsp;AppDynamics,&nbsp;New Relic, etc.</li></ul>#DISNEYTECH#LI-AF2 The hiring range for this position in Glendal, CA is $152,200 - $204,100 per year. 
The hiring range for this position in WA is $159,500 - $213,900 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.</div>
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Lead Software Engineer