Job Posting Title:

Senior Staff Product Development Engineer

Req ID:

10142629

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:

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.

Ad Platforms is responsible for Disney’s industry-leading ad technology and products – driving advertising performance, innovation, and value in Disney’s sports, news, and entertainment content, across all media platforms.

Job Summary:

As a Lead Software Engineer (non-manager), you will apply your deep technical knowledge and skills to help us deliver scalable, performant, maintainable, loosely coupled, encapsulated, and testable software.

 

Daily, you should bring:

• A willingness and desire to effectively communicate and collaborate across teams and systems.
• Demonstrated project ownership.
• System and API design, and implementation best practices to guide and mentor, for example, micro-service encapsulation and loose coupling.
• A passion for mentoring, learning,  and adapting to a very dynamic and fast-paced environment.
• A proven ability to work with product teams to translate requirements into well-defined technical implementations, as well as the ability to define technical and operational metrics to measure system health.
• A keen eye for potential optimizations and enhancements.
• Kindness and pragmatic optimism.
• A deep understanding of full stack development and the Software Development Lifecycle.

Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:

Summarize job responsibilities, core deliverables and major duties. What is required for the position to exist? 

• Holistic understanding of the team’s domain and serving as a point of contact for stakeholders.
• Leading by example, supporting their peers, and striving to improve code and design towards more scalable, clean, and decoupled implementations.
• Facilitate discussions and drive resolution, making sure outcomes are clear and well-communicated.
• Designing, implementing, and testing solutions to various engineering problems in a high-throughput, low-latency microservices environment.
• Understanding and use of automated tools (AI) while adhering to company policy.
• Reading and understanding product user stories, translating them into actionable tasks, and leading the team through their execution.
• Enhancing systems’ observability with proper metrics, monitors, and alerts.
• Available for On-Call rotations based on the team’s escalation policy and support schedule.

Required Education, Experience/Skills/Training:

Minimum and Preferred. Inclusive of Licenses/Certs (include functional experience as well as behavioral attributes and/or leadership capabilities)

Basic Qualifications

• Advanced proficiency with Java
• Proficiency with Typescript
• Demonstrable analytical / problem-solving skills.
• Great communication, collaboration skills, and a strong teamwork ethic with both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience with:
  • .NET Core, C# and related Microsoft tech stack.  
  • Non-relational database technologies like DynamoDB.
  • Proficiency with Javascript frameworks(React, node.js)
  • Caching datastores such as Redis, ValKey, or MemCache.
  • Data Streaming Mechanisms such as Apache Kafka and/or Kinesis.
  • Cloud platforms such as Azure/AWS.
  • Modern DevOps tools such as Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes.
  • Microservice architecture.

Preferred Qualifications 

Experience with: 

Required Education

• BS or MS in Computer Science / Engineering or relevant work experience.
• 7+ years of software engineering experience.

Job Posting Segment:

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology

Job Posting Primary Business:

Ad Platforms

Primary Job Posting Category:

Product Development Engineering

Employment Type:

Full time

Primary City, State, Region, Postal Code:

Bangalore, India

Alternate City, State, Region, Postal Code:

Date Posted:

2026-02-13