Lead Software Engineer - Data Streaming/Integration Platforms
Company: The Walt Disney Company
Location: Bristol
Posted on: April 2, 2026
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Job Description:
Job Posting Title: Lead Software Engineer - Data
Streaming/Integration Platforms Req ID: 10142947 Job Description:
Role Location: This is an on-site role requiring 4 days in-person
at designated office location. Disney Entertainment and ESPN
Product & Technology 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. Here are a few reasons why we think you’d
love working here: Building the future of Disney’s media: Our
Technologists are designing and building the products and platforms
that will power our media, advertising, and distribution businesses
for years to come. Reach, Scale & Impact: More than ever, Disney’s
technology and products serve as a signature doorway for fans'
connections with the company’s brands and stories. Disney. Hulu.
ESPN. ABC. ABC News…and many more. These products and brands – and
the unmatched stories, storytellers, and events they carry – matter
to millions of people globally. Innovation: We develop and
implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape
industry norms, and solve complex and distinctive technical
problems. Product Engineering 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. Job
Summary: We are seeking a Lead Software Engineer to help build,
enhance, and scale our cloud?based messaging and integration
platforms. In this role, you will design, develop, and support
event?streaming solutions at scale. You will also build and
maintain custom microservices based applications that provide
platform administration, operational tooling, and integrations with
enterprise products and third?party systems. Beyond hands-on
development, you will serve as a key technical leader—setting
architectural direction, mentoring engineers, conducting code
reviews, and championing best practices in software development,
cost?efficient architecture, and maintainable design. This role
offers the opportunity to shape core platform strategy, lead
complex distributed systems engineering, and collaborate across the
organization to deliver high?quality, reliable, and scalable
products. Responsibilities and Duties of the Role: Build, enhance,
and support highly scalable, reliable, and cost?optimized
cloud?based event?streaming and integration platforms. Use
Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and CI/CD pipelines to deploy
and manage cloud resources. Enhance and support Spring Boot/Java
microservices based applications for administration and operation
of messaging platform. Design, develop and support integration
services connecting enterprise products and third?party systems.
Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and conduct code reviews.
Collaborate with cross?functional teams to deliver high?impact
solutions. Ensure performance, reliability, and observability
across the platforms. Champion engineering excellence in areas such
as IaC, microservices design, price-performance optimization, and
observability. Continuously improve platform automation,
monitoring, and self?service capabilities. Required Education,
Experience/Skills/Training: Basic Qualifications 7 years of
experience in Software Engineering with a strong focus on Java,
Infrastructure as Code Extensive hands-on experience designing and
supporting cloud solutions in AWS, including container
orchestration using Amazon EKS Extensive “Infrastructure as Code”
experience, with advanced proficiency in Terraform for provisioning
and automating cloud resources Extensive hands-on experience in
administrating, deploying, and optimizing messaging platform,
especially Apache Kafka Proficient in Spring Boot / Java
development, with a strong focus on microservices architecture.
Strong problem-solving skills with a proactive approach to
identifying and resolving issues. Ability to translate business
requirements into technical solutions. Excellent communication and
collaboration skills, with experience working across teams.
Comfortable working in a geographically distributed team. Preferred
Qualifications Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Information
Systems preferred Familiarity with Amazon Q or similar generative
AI?assistant for cloud development, troubleshooting, and code
generation. Familiarity with Azure and GCP cloud services,
including compute, networking, IAM, and container orchestration.
Familiarity with multi?region, high?availability, or disaster
recovery architectures. Required Education Bachelor’s degree in
Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or
Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or
equivalent work experience The hiring range for this position in CT
is $155,700 - $208,700 per year and in NY 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. Job Posting Segment: PE -
Sports, News & Entertainment, Enablement Job Posting Primary
Business: PE - Sports, News & Entertainment, Enablement -
Infrastructure Engineering Primary Job Posting Category: Software
Engineer Employment Type: Full time Primary City, State, Region,
Postal Code: Bristol, CT, USA Alternate City, State, Region, Postal
Code: USA - NY - 7 Hudson Square Date Posted: 2026-03-23
Keywords: The Walt Disney Company, Bristol , Lead Software Engineer - Data Streaming/Integration Platforms, IT / Software / Systems , Bristol, Connecticut
