Lead Software Engineer, Cloud Platform DevOps

$159,500 - $213,900/Yr

Disney - New York, NY

Full-time - Mid Level

New York, NY

Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries

About the position

As a Lead Software Engineer on the Platform & Data Enablement (PDE) squad at Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology, you will play a crucial role in leading the delivery and operational success of global services. This position emphasizes fostering a mature DevOps culture, ensuring services are robust, scalable, and aligned with operational excellence standards. You will collaborate with engineering teams to enhance user experiences across Disney's streaming and digital products, while also mentoring engineers and promoting Agile practices within an inclusive engineering organization.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with engineering squads to deploy and maintain stateful microservices and FaaS within a large-scale, multi-region cloud environment.
• Assist engineering squads in migrating to a unified, self-service platform, enhancing scalability and observability.
• Mentor engineers in adopting a DevOps operating model and foster a culture of accountability.
• Work with other engineering leaders and Product/Project Management to influence squad roadmap and architecture.
• Promote Agile practices through active participation in ceremonies like stand-ups and planning sessions.
• Empower other engineers through mentorship, enhancing their technical skills and professional growth.
• Foster an inclusive culture that values learning, collaboration, and excellence.

Requirements

• Minimum of 7 years of related work experience.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience.
• Experience with Terraform, and infrastructure as code (IaC), and DevOps.
• Extensive AWS experience: EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, ELB, ASGs, Route53, KMS, SSM, IAM, S3, ACM, VPC.
• Deploying and operating AWS data streaming and event-driven services at scale (e.g., Kinesis, DynamoDB, Lambda).
• Designing, building, and operating distributed systems with robust failover and fallback strategies.
• Proficiency in JVM-related performance issues, logging, monitoring, and tracing tools (e.g., CloudWatch, Datadog, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, PagerDuty).
• Experience with Terraform Enterprise, Spinnaker, Jenkins, and GitHub.
• Track record in medium- to large-sized projects and platform initiatives.
• Practical application of Agile methodologies, CI/CD, and DevOps practices.
• Adherence to high-quality coding, testing, and development standards.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and apply technical judgment effectively.
• Mentorship experience in guiding teams toward a DevOps, ‘you build it, you run it' model.
• Experience transitioning centralized Ops teams to embrace DevOps.

Benefits

• Bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package.
• Full range of medical benefits.
• Financial benefits.