SDET - backend

Job Posting Title:

SDET - backend

Req ID:

10132542

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: 

1. 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. 

2. 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. 

3. 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 engineering, and the engineering behind personalization, commerce, lifecycle, and identity.

 

As a Software Development in Test Engineer within DEEP&T, you will touch the lives of Disney fans around the world, working on innovative digital products and platforms from Disney, ESPN, National Geographic, ABC, Marvel, Star Wars and more. 

You will be a contributor on the Quality Engineering team, whose primary goal is continually improving the quality of the products that Disney is known for while decreasing time-to-market and enabling innovation.  This role makes you a stakeholder in every digital property developed and released by the DEEP&T group, as well as the platforms and enterprise applications that power them.

You will be an integral part of a small group of talented and driven software engineers dedicated to building infrastructure, tools, reports, and services that enable product engineering teams to deliver all Disney digital applications with the quality and reliability expected by our guests.

When these systems work as intended, they drive better customer experiences, increase trust in our platform, and reduce costs associated with bugs in production. As an SDET, you will play a crucial role in strengthening test automation strategies, leading quality initiatives, and championing a culture of engineering excellence.

This is a great opportunity to be part of a talented and collaborative team, with the autonomy to influence test architecture and the support to drive meaningful change. The ideal candidate is innovative, proactive, and thrives in dynamic, fast-paced environments.

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with Software Engineers to understand the complex ecosystem in place at DEEP&T
• Develop automated test frameworks and suites on UI, API and Integration levels of testing using java, python or other OO language
• Participate in design discussions for our platform to help evolve the platform in a way that enables richer testing scenarios that simplify defect detection and prevention
• Assist with triage, diagnosis, and resolution of issues discovered across teams.
• Contribute to end-to-end acceptance tests
• Where necessary, develop and execute manual test cases to detect issues that cannot be detected through automated means
• Drive the conversion of manual tests to automated whenever possible
• Developing and supporting high quality code to build and enhance automation, quality infrastructure, and innovative proof-of-concepts
• Investigating and troubleshooting issues across our services and driving them to resolution
• Contributing to the development and maintenance of infrastructure, frameworks, and pipelines that verify backend services and APIs across multiple products
   

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or the equivalent in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a closely related technical field or equivalent years of professional experience.
• 3 years of relevant experience in a software development (SDET, SE, SRE) occupation, including automated and/or unit testing of front end and/or backend services

• Experienced in object-oriented design and expertise with one of the following programming languages: Python, Java, Node/JavaScript
• Experience working with high-performing teams using Agile and Lean methodologies
• Excellent collaboration skills and ability to use standard software development lifecycle (SDLC) tools such as Jira and Confluence, and version control systems.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience shipping production Python, Flask, Django, React or Node.js applications.
• Experience with developing and deploying applications in cloud platforms (e.g. AWS) and optimizing cost efficiency.
• Experience with Kafka, Amazon SQS, and Kinesis
• Experience writing Gherkin Syntax to facilitate the development of automated test scenarios.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Spinnaker, and continuous integration/delivery systems.
• Experience with testcase and/or issue management (e.g. JIRA, Xray), code management (e.g. git, SonarQube) and data visualization (e.g. Grafana, Data Dog) tools.

The hiring range for this position in Santa Monica/Glendale/L.A., California is $95,300.00 - $127,800.00; and the hiring range for this position in San Francisco, California is $104,400.00 - $140,000.00 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 - News & Entertainment Engineering

Primary Job Posting Category:

Quality Assurance Engineering

Employment Type:

Full time

Primary City, State, Region, Postal Code:

Santa Monica, CA, USA

Alternate City, State, Region, Postal Code:

USA - CA - 1200 Grand Central Ave

Date Posted:

2025-10-21