The Walt Disney Company
Software Engineer II
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Job Description
Technology is at the heart of Disney’s 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 Disney’s media business globally. The team marries technology with creativity to build world-class products, enhance storytelling, and drive velocity, innovation, and scalability for our businesses. We are Storytellers and Innovators. Creators and Builders. Entertainers and Engineers. We work with every part of The Walt Disney Company’s media portfolio to advance the technological foundation and consumer media touch points serving millions of people around the world.
Product Engineering is a unified team responsible for the engineering of Disney Entertainment & ESPN digital and streaming products and platforms. This includes product engineering, media engineering, quality assurance, engineering behind personalization, commerce, lifecycle, and identity. The Observability & Insights group ensures that Disney Streaming’s distributed systems are reliable, performant, and transparent. We build ML-powered detection systems, telemetry pipelines, intelligent alerting, and developer experience tooling that enable engineers across the organization to understand system health and take action quickly.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- 3+ years of professional software engineering experience building, scaling, and maintaining ML-powered backends, data-driven microservices, and production RESTful APIs using FastAPI or Flask
- Strong hands-on experience in end-to-end ML engineering using PyTorch or TensorFlow spanning model architecture selection, feature engineering, training, and evaluation (e.g., autoencoders, sequential/time-series models like RNNs/GRUs, anomaly detection, or transformers).
- Proficiency in Python and at least one ML framework (PyTorch preferred)
- Experience managing model experiments, lineage, and hyperparameter tracking using tools like MLflow or Weights & Biases.
- Practical experience processing, transforming, and querying large-scale telemetry, event, or time-series datasets using PySpark, Pandas, or Databricks.
- Experience with modern development practices including version control (GitHub), containerization (Docker), and cloud-native deployments (AWS/EKS)
- Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills with the ability to iterate rapidly
- Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work cross-functionally
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with foundation model integration, prompt engineering/evaluation, RAG architectures, or orchestration frameworks like LangChain or LangGraph
- Familiarity with observability platforms (e.g., Datadog, Grafana, Conviva) and high-volume telemetry data
- Experience with large-scale data platforms (Databricks, Spark, Snowflake)
Skills & Technologies
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Employment Type
Full Time
Experience Level
Mid
Salary Range
$117,500 – $165,000
Location
Glendale, CA
Work Mode
Remote
Posted
6 days ago
Country
US