Sr Staff Content Distribution Engineer

Job Posting Title:

Sr Staff Content Distribution Engineer

Req ID:

10151964

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 assurance, engineering behind personalization, commerce, lifecycle, and identity.

Job Summary:

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is looking for a Sr Staff Content Distribution Engineer specializing in caching technology, distributed networking, and operational experience in CDN edge services. This role will join the Media Engineering organization as part of the Distribution Engineering team which develops and maintains CDN configurations for all CDNs in the Disney Distribution Mesh.

Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:

Areas of focus include:

• Oversee Day-to-Day operations of Disney Distribution Mesh

• Actively manage incidents, communicating across distribution teams, and performing root cause analysis

• Actively review performance metrics across our caching infrastructure for improvements (in concert with operations and performance management teams)

• Identifying areas for tuning and adjustment

• Work to solve distribution issues in concert with our operations and engineering organizations

• Build and execute frameworks for Incident, Problem and Change Management based on ITIL standards

• Provide tier-2 on call evaluation, escalation and support

Required Education, Experience/Skills/Training:

Basic Qualifications

• Minimum of 7 years of experience

• Experience in Content Distribution Network operations environments

• Expert knowledge of CDN Provider architectures and configurations

• Understanding of streaming video protocols (HLS) and how it interacts with caching

• Ability to perform Network Troubleshooting

• Knowledge of video players and impact on cache logic

• Effective communication, written and verbal

• Passion for troubleshooting and debugging

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of following

  • HTTP/DNS/Internet Architecture

  • Caching (Varnish)

  • Web Serving (NGINX, HAProxy)

  • Cloud Technologies (AWS, GCP)

  • Scripting Languages (Python, et al)

  • Security Protocols (SSL Certificates, TLS)

  • Configuration Management (Ansible, AWX)

Experience with:

• Experience with messaging technologies (e.g., Kafka, Kinesis, SQS, etc.)

• Experience operating within a Public Cloud Provider (e.g., AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)

• Experience with observability tools for metrics, logging, and monitoring (e.g., Datadog, Splunk, Grafana)

Required Education  

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience

Job Posting Segment:

Product Engineering

Job Posting Primary Business:

PE - India Product & Technology

Primary Job Posting Category:

Content Distribution Engineering

Employment Type:

Full time

Primary City, State, Region, Postal Code:

Bangalore, India

Alternate City, State, Region, Postal Code:

Date Posted:

2026-07-09