Senior Build Engineer

About the Role & Team

Disney Digital Entertainment, a division of Disney Experiences, is redefining how audiences interact with The Walt Disney Company—creating the ‘digital front door’ that unites all of Disney’s magic into a cohesive, interactive universe.

Disney Digital Entertainment is seeking talented individuals passionate about pushing the boundaries of game engine and rendering technology. As a critical part of our team, you will leverage your expertise to build and optimize feature-rich engines, ensuring smooth and high-performance experiences for global audiences.

As a Senior Build Engineer, you will have a central role supporting multiple Disney game and content teams, an opportunity to define best practices and set technical standards across builds, pipelines, and version control systems.

You will have hands-on influence over the stability and performance of studio-wide tools and infrastructure, and own the design and maintenance of automation systems, tools and scripts.

This role can be based remotely in Sweden, Denmark, Finland or Norway.

What You Will Do

• Drive optimization and scalability of build pipelines for large-scale, multi-platform projects.
• Evaluate and integrate new tools to streamline workflows and reduce build times.
• Proactively troubleshoot and resolve complex CI/CD or integration issues.
• Collaborates with SRE on revision control; Perforce, URC, Git and related tooling like Perforce Code Review (Swarm)
• Set up and maintain build systems and CI/CD; Horde, UBA
• Act as a trusted technical partner to content creators, engineers, and production teams.
• Help set technical direction for shared pipeline tools across multiple projects.
• Foster cross-functional collaboration across geographically distributed teams.

Required Qualifications & Skills

• Familiarity with Python, C# and scripting commonly used in build automation.
• Experience managing large Perforce depots, including performance tuning and replication.
• Experience with cross-platform builds (Windows, Mac, Linux, consoles).
• Familiarity with Docker or containerized builds is a plus.
• Familiarity with cloud-based CI/CD workflows (e.g., AWS, GCP).
• Passionate about invisible excellence – making everything “just work” for other teams.
• Strong problem-solving mindset, especially under production pressure.
• Committed to documentation and reproducibility of infrastructure.
• Mentorship-Oriented – Shares knowledge freely and helps others grow, regardless of title or role.
• Growth Mindset – Embraces feedback, iteration, and the process of continuous improvement.
• Passionate About Creative Empowerment – Motivated by building systems that remove friction for storytellers and world-builders.
• 5-8 years relevant experience

The Walt Disney Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We strive to be a diverse workforce that is representative of our audiences, and where all can thrive and belong. Disney is committed to forming a team that includes and respects a variety of voices, identities, backgrounds, experiences and perspectives.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided the necessary accommodations to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive all benefits of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Job Posting Segment:

NA - Games

Job Posting Primary Business:

Regional (NA)

Primary Job Posting Category:

Games-Production

Employment Type:

Full time