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# Lead Systems Engineer

Multiple locations Full-time Manager or lead $135,400.00 - $181,600.00 per year Operations 

Listed on Walt Disney’s official careers site. Posted October 12, 2026. Check that it is still open and apply there.
[Apply on Walt Disney’s careers site →](https://disney.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/disneycareer/job/Glendale-CA-USA/Lead-Systems-Engineer_10159580)

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## Job description

### Job Posting Title

Lead Systems Engineer Req ID: 10159580 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 Lead Systems Engineer is a senior technical contributor responsible for delivering and scaling critical infrastructure platforms across hybrid environments, including on-premises data centers and public cloud. This role bridges architecture and execution by translating enterprise-level designs into reusable, automated patterns while leading complex infrastructure initiatives across multiple teams.

### Responsibilities

Platform Engineering & Delivery Lead design and implementation of hybrid infrastructure systems focused primarily on origin object storage systems of content.
- Translate architectural designs into scalable deployment patterns
- Identify critical metric KPI’s to drive improvements across all platforms
- Deliver solutions across on-prem and cloud environments
- Drive continuous improvements to support our goal of 5 9’s availability.

Automation & Modernization Drive Infrastructure-as-Code and CI/CD best practices
- Lead infrastructure migrations and modernization initiatives

### Reliability & Operations
- Lead incident response and ensure production stability
- Support high availability, 24x7 infrastructure services

### Technical Leadership
- Mentor engineers and improve engineering practices
- Act as a technical leader across multi-team projects Collaboration
- Partner cross-functionally to drive delivery
- Communicate technical decisions clearly

### Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in a technical field
- 7+ years of systems/infrastructure engineering experience Expertise in hybrid infrastructure (on-prem + cloud) Expertise in complex large scale high performance multiprotocol NFS & S3 object storage systems Experience with VMware, Kubernetes, and distributed systems
- Strong automation skills (IaC, CI/CD)
- Proven leadership across complex technical initiatives

### Preferred Qualifications

Experience with large-scale migrations Storage and data lifecycle expertise Observability and monitoring expertise #DISNEYTECH The hiring range for this position in New York, NY is $135,400.00 - $181,600.00 per year, and in Los Angeles, CA, $129,300 - $173,300 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 - Media Engineering Job Posting Primary Business: PE - Media Platform - Infrastructure Engineering Primary Job Posting Category: Systems Engineer Employment Type: Full time Primary City, State, Region, Postal Code: Glendale, CA, USA Alternate City, State, Region, Postal Code: USA - NY - 7 Hudson Square, USA - WA - 925 4th Ave Date Posted: 2026-09-21

## At a glance
- Posted by the employer: Oct 12, 2026
- First seen by OpenNash: Oct 11, 2026
- Last checked: Oct 18, 2026
- Listed for: 7 days
- Location: Multiple locations
- Employment type: Full-time
- Pay: $135,400.00 - $181,600.00 per year[Apply on Walt Disney’s careers site →](https://disney.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/disneycareer/job/Glendale-CA-USA/Lead-Systems-Engineer_10159580)

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