Lead Product Software Engineer (DevOps/Web Dev)

This role is a lead product software engineering position focused on standardizing and modernizing guest-facing web delivery across Disney and N&E Alliance brands. You will own key layers of the application lifecycle, from rendered front ends and APIs to edge delivery, while setting AI-assisted engineering standards and driving reliability through paved-path architecture.

Location

Glendale, CA (onsite)

Compensation

USD 155,700 - 208,700 per year

Responsibilities

• Build, modernize, and own guest-facing web applications end to end, including rendered front ends, APIs, identity integrations, and caching behaviors that support speed and reliability at scale.
• Define and execute a long-term technical strategy across brand sites, with emphasis on reliability, observability, and delivering high-quality outcomes against business priorities.
• Research, evangelize, and drive adoption of paved-path architecture patterns and engineering standards that work consistently across brands.
• Lead migrations from legacy stacks to current platforms by scoping work, sequencing changes against live traffic, and completing migrations without guest-facing regression.
• Reduce engineering friction across the portfolio through tooling, debugging interfaces, deployment models, and automation that improve shipping velocity while reducing risk.
• Establish standards for AI-assisted development usage across teams, including review gates, validation practices, and the observability required to trust automation in critical paths.
• Provide technical guidance and mentoring to senior engineers, conduct effective design reviews, and collaborate with P5-level Engineering Leads on stack standardization.
• Own performance, scalability, and resiliency for mission-critical cloud services.
• Influence department-level technical planning, including management of technical risks for critical site initiatives.

Requirements

• Minimum 7 years of relevant experience as a software engineer or architect.
• Production experience building and shipping guest-facing web applications, including modern front-end frameworks such as React with TypeScript and server-side rendering, plus backend services and APIs.
• Strong command of web architecture fundamentals, including HTTP, DNS, caching strategy, and API delivery paradigms such as REST and GraphQL.
• Hands-on experience developing and maintaining high-volume distributed services on Amazon Web Services, including edge delivery and caching through CloudFront or an equivalent CDN.
• Demonstrated experience leading a legacy platform migration or large-scale standardization effort through completion.
• Ability to drive technical decisions beyond your own team and communicate complex technical tradeoffs to non-technical stakeholders.

Technologies

• React
• TypeScript
• Server-side rendering
• HTTP
• DNS
• REST
• GraphQL
• Amazon Web Services
• CloudFront
• Varnish
• Route 53
• WAF

Preferred Qualifications

• Production configuration of Varnish, HAProxy, or CloudFront, including cache policy design and interaction with experimentation and personalization.
• Experience building developer tooling, debugging interfaces, or branch-based deployment models.
• Gated AI-assisted development practice with incremental validation and human review of generated changes.
• Observability and alerting in Datadog.

Benefits

• A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package.
• Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits.

Required Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.