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Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology

Lead Product Software Engineer

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology
Glendale, CA $156k - $209k/yr Full time Posted 1h ago
API APIs Cloud Operations Edge Delivery Engineering Front End Engineer Frontend GraphQL Identity Integration Integration React Software Engineer Software Engineering Technical Lead TypeScript Web Api
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Job Description

Lead full-stack product engineering to standardize guest-facing web delivery across Disney Entertainment and ESPN brands, from front-end rendering to APIs and cloud performance.

Responsibilities

  • Build, modernize, and own guest-facing web applications end to end, covering rendered front ends, backend services and APIs, identity integrations, and caching behavior for fast, reliable scale.
  • Define and execute a long-term technical strategy across brand sites, with emphasis on reliability, observability, and delivery aligned to business priorities.
  • Research and evangelize paved-path architecture patterns and engineering standards that apply across brands rather than per site.
  • Lead legacy stack migrations to current platforms by scoping work, sequencing against live traffic, and completing changes without guest-facing regression.
  • Lower engineering friction across the portfolio through tooling, debugging interfaces, deployment models, and automation that enable faster shipping with less risk.
  • Set standards for AI-assisted development, including review gates, validation, and observability to trust automation on critical paths.
  • Provide technical guidance and mentoring to senior engineers, run design reviews, and partner with P5-level Engineering Leads on stack standardization.
  • Own performance, scalability, and resiliency for mission-critical cloud services.
  • Support department-wide technical planning and manage technical risks for critical site projects.

Requirements

  • Minimum 7 years of relevant experience as a software engineer or architect.
  • Production experience shipping guest-facing web applications, including modern front-end frameworks such as React with TypeScript and server-side rendering, plus backend services and APIs.
  • Strong web architecture knowledge, including HTTP, DNS, caching strategy, and API delivery paradigms such as REST and GraphQL.
  • Hands-on experience building and maintaining high-volume distributed services on AWS, including edge delivery and caching via CloudFront or a comparable CDN.
  • Proven experience leading a legacy platform migration or large-scale standardization effort through completion.
  • Ability to drive technical decisions beyond your team and explain complex tradeoffs to non-technical stakeholders.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.

Technologies

  • React, TypeScript, server-side rendering
  • APIs, identity integrations
  • DNS
  • Caching strategy
  • REST, GraphQL
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • CloudFront
  • Route 53
  • WAF
  • Varnish
  • Edge delivery

Preferred Qualifications

  • Production configuration of Varnish, HAProxy, or CloudFront, including cache policy design and interactions with experimentation and personalization.
  • Experience building developer tooling, debugging interfaces, or branch-based deployment models.
  • Gated AI-assisted development practice with incremental validation and human review of generated changes.
  • Observability and alerting in Datadog.

Location: Glendale, CA (onsite)

Compensation: USD 155,700 - 208,700 per year

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