Sr. Database Engineer, Site Reliability
Company: The Walt Disney Company
Location: Bristol
Posted on: April 2, 2026
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Job Description:
Job Posting Title: Sr. Database Engineer, Site Reliability Req
ID: 10143634 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 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 and on-premise
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 Reliability
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
Reliability 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
Bachelor's degree, preferably in computer science, Engineering, or
related field (or equivalent experience). 5 years of related work
experience with Microsoft SQL Server, Amazon RDS for SQL Server,
Azure SQL, and Azure SQL MI. Fundamental understanding of Microsoft
SQL Server database internals. 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. General
understanding and experience with Windows operating system,
network, and containers. Excellent verbal and written communication
skills. Experience designing and deploying fault-tolerant,
distributed, and highly available database infrastructure.
Experience in database availability monitoring and status reporting
using native monitoring tools. Well-versed in SQL Server backup,
restore, and recovery strategies. Experience keeping a large
environment compliant by deploying SQL Server patches and upgrades.
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 running, deploying, and
maintaining production systems in Azure and Amazon Web Services.
Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
Experience building a proper path to production leveraging multiple
lifecycles, testing, integration, and CI/CD pipelines. Experience
with the configuration and implementation of SQL Server Always On
availability groups. Experience with configuration management
(Ansible, Chef). Comfortable collaborating with cross-functional
teams providing guidance in SQL Server best practices. Experience
with proactively identifying problems/areas of improvement and
designing creative solutions to successfully remediate issues. The
hiring range for this position in Bristol, CT is $141,900 to
$190,300 and in New York is $$148,700 to $199,400$ 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: Site/System Reliability
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: 2026-03-16
Keywords: The Walt Disney Company, Meriden , Sr. Database Engineer, Site Reliability, IT / Software / Systems , Bristol, Connecticut
