Job Posting Title:

Product Software Engineering Manager

Req ID:

10146920

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.

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

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.

Job Summary:

Describe what the person will do in the role - how he/she will impact the organization.

Our Core Player Engineering team mission is to design video streaming playback solutions in collaboration with encoding, packaging, and delivery teams to optimize our streaming technology stack for the best experience possible on all devices. We are looking for a Software Engineering Manager who is passionate about leveraging engineering experience and management skills to solve complex problems in a collaborative way.

You are a person who sees the value in bringing people together to solve problems, building trust with your team and with other stakeholders, thinking strategically, and establishing relationships with people at all levels. You listen well, have a high degree of emotional intelligence, and deliver regular and candid feedback to those you interact with.

Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:

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

Provide input for stakeholders and decision makers in architecture, roadmap, and product.

Communicate architecture, roadmap, and product objectives to engineers and gather feedback for stakeholders.

Collaborate with engineering and product leadership to establish priorities

Provide priority and roadmap guidance to engineers and project managers through regular sprint planning and daily check-ins

Assume the role of stakeholder for the project road map(s) along with product and project managers

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

• 5 years experience in software engineering.
• 1 year experience as a manager of software engineers.
• Strong verbal/written communication and data presentation skills.
• Strong discipline to delegate work and focus on solving management problems.
• Demonstrate a desire to become the “go to” individual for projects you own.
• Comfortable with complex and high profile projects.
• Demonstrate an ability to drive a project forward through unpredictable obstacles, taking on whatever is needed to solve problems, without overextending personal health and wellbeing of yourself or your team.

Preferred Qualifications

• 10 years experience in software engineering with a significant portion as a programmer and/or technical leader.
• 5 years experience as a manager of software engineers.
• Willing and able to understand the nuances of various software runtimes, languages, and device characteristics.
• Possess an understanding that not all engineering problems are technical in nature, and instead will require deft people management skills to solve.
• Experience working with remote global teams and a flexible schedule to meet in different time zones outside of normal working hours 1 – 2 days per week.

Required Education  

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (or related field), or 8 years experience or training in a related field

Job Posting Segment:

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology

Job Posting Primary Business:

Media Engineering

Primary Job Posting Category:

Product Software Engineering

Employment Type:

Full time

Primary City, State, Region, Postal Code:

Bangalore, India

Alternate City, State, Region, Postal Code:

Date Posted:

2026-03-31