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**About the Role & Program** :

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.

Within

**Product Engineering** , the **Quality Platform Engineering** team builds frameworks and infrastructure that allows QA automation teams to write and test at scale and with speed. We see ourselves as system engineers, learning entire cross-functional feature flows and building tools and libraries that integrate across the entire Disney Streaming tech stack.

What You Will Do:

On any given day you might:

+ Construct a new endpoint of a REST service

+ Deploy code through CI/CD processes into a production server

+ Debug why a REST service is returning a specific error code

+ Construct a new data model object based on upstream and downstream services

+ Build templates for infrastructure as code and deploy new resources into AWS

**Required Qualifications & Skills** :

+ Knowledge and experience in one and/or more of the following programming languages (Java, Python) & REST APIs

+ Good understanding of AWS or other cloud provider resources

+ Good Understanding of relational and non-relational databases (SQL, NoSQL)

+ Strong problem solving and analysis skills

+ Willingness and ability to learn and pick up new skillsets

Preferred Qualifications & Skills:

+ Experience with building and publishing Java-based REST libraries and/or Spring Framework usage

+ Experience with data object modeling using Python libraries such as Marshmallow or Pydantic

Education:

+ Junior or Senior year preferred

+ Currently enrolled undergraduate student in an accredited college/university, pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Management Information Systems, Information Technology or related field

Eligibility Requirements & Program Information

Candidates for this opportunity MUST meet all of the below requirements:

+ Be enrolled in an accredited college/university pursuing a degree taking at least one class in the semester/quarter (spring/fall) prior to participation in the internship program AND returning to school the semester/quarter following the internship OR currently participating in a Disney College Program or Disney Internship.

+ Current Disney Interns, College, International, or Culinary Program Participants: You may only work for ONE consecutive year (12 months) in any combination of an internship and/or program.

+ Be at least 18 years of age

+ Possess unrestricted work authorization

Additional Information

+ Fully available from M-F, 40 hours each week for the entire program duration: May/June - August/September 2026 (12 weeks)

+ Able to provide own housing for the duration internship program

+ Able to provide/have reliable transportation to/from work

The pay rate for this role in Glendale, CA or New York, NY is $42.00 per hour. Select benefits may be provided as part of the compensation package, such as medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered. To learn more about our benefits visit: https://jobs.disneycareers.com/benefits.

**Job ID:** 10135444

**Location:** Glendale,California

**Job Posting Company:** Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology

The Walt Disney Company and its Affiliated Companies are Equal Employment Opportunity employers and welcome all job seekers including individuals with disabilities and veterans with disabilities. If you have a disability and believe you need a reasonable accommodation in order to search for a job opening or apply for a position, email [email protected] with your request. This email address is not for general employment inquiries or correspondence. We will only respond to those requests that are related to the accessibility of the online application system due to a disability.