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Disney is hiring a Lead Systems Engineer in Glendale, CA; New York, NY. It is a full-time role in Software & IT, asking for at least 7 years of experience, first listed on November 1. The advertised pay is $137,500–$184,300 a year. The description mentions CI/CD and Kubernetes. Disney has 105 other openings in the US, 42 of them in Glendale, CA. Across all employers on USA Jobs 24 there are 23 Software & IT openings in Glendale, CA today; the typical one asks for 5 years and advertises about $169,000 a year at the midpoint.
How the pay compares
Disney advertises $137,500 to $184,300 a year, a midpoint of $160,900 a year. Where an offer lands in a range usually depends on experience and on the exact location. That is lower than about 82% of the 1,317 software & IT jobs in California that publish a yearly rate on USA Jobs 24, where the typical midpoint is $213,000 a year. To see roughly what this leaves after federal and California tax, try our take-home pay calculator.
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About hiring at Disney
Disney has 106 openings on USA Jobs 24 today across 8 states. Most are in software & IT (57), data & AI (17) and marketing (7). The biggest locations are Glendale, CA (43), New York, NY (39) and Seattle, WA (16). 1% of them are remote, 2% are open to entry-level candidates and 98% show pay. We collect Disney's jobs every day straight from its own careers system (Workday), never from job boards or agencies.
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Job Posting Title:
Lead Systems EngineerReq ID:
10159580Job 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 and in Seattle, WA is $137,500.00 - $184,300.00 per year, and in Glendale, CA, $131,200.00 - $176,000 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 - Media EngineeringJob Posting Primary Business:
PE - Media Platform - Infrastructure EngineeringPrimary Job Posting Category:
Systems EngineerEmployment Type:
Full timePrimary City, State, Region, Postal Code:
Glendale, CA, USAAlternate City, State, Region, Postal Code:
USA - NY - 7 Hudson SquareDate Posted:
2026-09-21USA Jobs 24 copied this listing from Disney's official careers site on November 1, 2026 and checked it again November 4, 5:17 AM ET. Disney will never ask you to pay to apply or to buy equipment with a check they send you. If anyone does, it is a scam.
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