Principal Platform Engineer, Infrastructure & Tooling for Services, Data, and GenAI

Job Posting Title:

Principal Platform Engineer, Infrastructure & Tooling for Services, Data, and GenAI

Req ID:

10125965

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. 

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.

Ad Platforms is responsible for Disney’s industry-leading ad technology and products – driving advertising performance, innovation, and value in Disney’s sports, news, and entertainment content, across all media platforms.

Job Summary:

We’re looking for a Principal Platform Engineer, Infrastructure & Tooling for Services, Data, and GenAI to help shape the future of infrastructure at Disney’s Ad Platforms. In this high-impact role, you’ll lead innovation across the cloud platforms that support both data and software engineering teams—designing systems that are secure, scalable, and built to accelerate delivery without compromising quality. As a senior technical expert, you’ll drive the architecture and evolution of our AWS-based infrastructure, champion cloud-native CI/CD practices, and build automation and internal tooling that empower developers to move faster, safer, and with greater autonomy. You’ll also explore the use of GenAI to streamline workflows and eliminate repetitive, time-consuming tasks. This is a hands-on role with strategic reach. You’ll collaborate closely with security, DevOps, SRE, and application teams to deliver platform capabilities that improve developer experience, streamline operations, and support rapid, high-quality delivery of new features and services.

If you're passionate about building reliable platforms, enabling teams to ship with confidence, and bringing intelligent automation into everyday engineering workflows—we’d love to hear from you. Help us scale Disney’s infrastructure platform with a focus on security, performance, developer experience, and innovation.

Responsibilities:

• Design and evolve resilient, secure, and scalable AWS infrastructure for software services and data pipelines, while driving platform standards and ensuring adherence across teams.

• Lead adoption and enhancement of Kubernetes (EKS) with integrated Istio service mesh for traffic management and observability.

• Architect secure network configurations, including VPC design, IAM, peering, and service-to-service security.

• Own and improve CI/CD automation using Jenkins, Spinnaker, and GitHub Actions, ensuring scalable and governed software delivery.

• Drive infrastructure-as-code best practices with Terraform, enabling reusable and composable module patterns.

• Lead AIOps initiatives including anomaly detection, automated remediation, and intelligent alerting to reduce operational noise.

• Identify and implement automation opportunities using Python, Go, or similar, to eliminate repetitive tasks and accelerate delivery.

• Act as a technical SME during high-severity incidents and root cause investigations, collaborating with infrastructure, data, and application teams.

• Establish and advocate for best practices in cloud security, compliance, cost governance, and disaster recovery.