Senior Software Engineer - Database
Company: The Walt Disney Company
Location: Bristol
Posted on: April 1, 2026
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Job Description:
Job Posting Title: Senior Software Engineer - Database Req ID:
10142738 Job Description: 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 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 individual in this position will join
the Data Stores team in an exciting and fast-paced environment
where they will help build and maintain highly available relational
database systems operating across multiple cloud environments.
These databases support many of the systems powering DEEP&T’s
digital media supply chain and consumer facing products. Job
Summary: Join DEEP&T as a Senior Software Engineer, where you
will analyze, design, program, debug, and modify software
enhancements and new products for use in local, networked,
cloud-based, or Internet-related computer programs. This role
delivers large or highly complex software programs and systems that
are critical to the organization’s technology platforms and
commercial applications. By leveraging in-depth knowledge of
current programming languages and technologies, the Senior Software
Engineer will write code, complete programming tasks, and perform
testing and debugging of applications. The individual will interact
with users to define system requirements and necessary
modifications, conceive and implement software components, fixes,
enhancements, and new systems. Their work directly impacts the
organization by driving improvements in product quality,
operational efficiency, and technical innovation, influencing
future projects and technical direction We’re looking for an
individual who can apply software engineering principles to
database engineering and administration to build processes and
automation to help deliver infrastructure faster, safer, more
consistently and with the right level of observability required to
operate at scale. Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:
Responsible for building, deploying, and ensuring all DEEP&T
database infrastructure is available 24/7/365. Leverage software
development and automation to design, modernize, and deliver
database infrastructure. Participates in setting the architectural
direction for database platforms and projects. Manage multiple
competing priorities in a fast-paced, deadline-oriented
environment. Analyze, design, and deploy fault-tolerant,
distributed, and highly available database infrastructure.
Proactively plan and implement infrastructure changes through
capacity forecasting, software release cycles, and right sizing.
Provide database expertise through performance tuning,
troubleshooting and administration. Develop, enhance, and adhere to
engineering and administration standards. Develop automation and
tooling to increase operational efficiency while ensuring system
reliability and security. Build infrastructure and systems for
scalability, resiliency, availability, and recovery though
infrastructure as code and configuration management. Provide
relevant insights of data store infrastructure through metrics,
monitoring, and alerting. Maintain thorough and well-written
documentation. Participate in live event support and on-call
rotation. May provide oversight and direction to junior team
members. Builds relationships with engineering teams and leads.
Required Education, Experience/Skills/Training: Basic Experience 5
years of related work experience with relational database systems
such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, Amazon RDS, and Amazon RDS Aurora. BA/BS
degree in Computer Science or equivalent technical experience
Fundamental understanding of database internals for at least one of
the above database engines. Experience working in Agile software
development. Experience with source control management tools (Git,
GitLab, GitHub). Intermediate to advanced level of expertise in one
or more programming languages such as Python, Java, or Go.
Experience running, deploying, and maintaining production cloud
infrastructure in Amazon Web Services. General understanding and
experience with Linux operating system, network, and containers.
Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Experience
designing and deploying fault-tolerant, distributed, and highly
available database infrastructure. Experience with disaster
recovery planning and implementation. Carries out assignments with
little coaching or guidance from others. Preferred Experience
Experience operating within a database reliability engineering
(DRE) and/or systems reliability engineering (SRE) role. Experience
building a proper path to production leveraging multiple
lifecycles, testing, integration, and CI/CD pipelines. Experience
running, deploying, and maintaining production cloud infrastructure
in Azure and GCP. Experience with configuration management
(Ansible, Chef). 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:
Date Posted: 2026-03-26
Keywords: The Walt Disney Company, Meriden , Senior Software Engineer - Database, IT / Software / Systems , Bristol, Connecticut
