Job Posting Title:

Senior Staff Product Software Engineer

Req ID:

10146177

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.

As part of the Media & Metadata Acquisition and Syndication (MASS) team, we are proud to be responsible for linear, video-on-demand (VOD), and non-linear delivery (NLD) media workflows delivering thousands of Disney-owned Sports, General Entertainment, and News assets daily to service providers (MVPDs, vMVPDs, SVOD) worldwide, including Disney streaming services.

 This team manages long-form, short-form, and creative/promo content for ESPN, Disney Cables, Freeform, FX Channels, National Geographic Channels, ABC, ABC Owned and Affiliated Digital feeds, ABC National Feeds and ABC News Live Hybrid.

 It is an incredibly complex ecosystem that requires us to manage an intricate integration platform for media asset ingest, transformation, normalization, packaging, scheduling, and global distribution to downstream content providers in the exact format they expect for their play-out. That represents several hundred thousand hours and several million files processed every year.

Job Summary:

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

The Media and Metadata Syndication Services team team is looking for an experienced Java and Spring Boot engineer who has experience in building backend engineering API's, workflows, and data integrations. As a lead software engineer, you will own the design, development, testing and shipping of the API's and workflows for large features, lead the technical design sessions, and mentor and lead other engineers for the completion of the work. You will work closely with product, program, platform, infrastructure, and other engineers within and outside broadcast & content services team.

Responsibilities:

• ·  Design, Develop, and Maintain Java, Spring Boot, and Kafka services which integrate with various media supply chain systems and backends.
• ·  Troubleshoot code and end-end workflows for the critical production issues and propose design changes required to fix these issues.
• ·  Help define engineering standards and provide technical mentorship to the team.
• · Create architecture and design proposals for new projects.
• ·  Own large and complex features of the workflows and analyze product requirements.
• ·  Collaborate with product, program, platform, infrastructure, and other engineers.
• ·   Improve observability for end-end workflows using monitoring, logging, and alerting technologies.
• ·   Drive improvements for our continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines.
• ·   Modernize existing workflows using latest technologies.
• Perform code reviews and propose best practices for driving efficiencies in software development.

Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:

• Design workflows, and analyze product requirements
• Develop, Test, and Deploy Workflows
• Production Support – Incident Management
• Mentor Engineering teams

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

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent
• 7+ years of experience in Software development
• Strong knowledge of API and Event Driven Architectures
• Strong experience in promoting best practices for code development.
• Proficiency in Java, Spring Boot, Python, Kafka, and AWS Cloud technologies
• Strong knowledge of data specifications, XML, JSON, SQL, REST, and GraphQL
• Strong knowledge in automation and tools such as GitHub, GitLab, Cloud Watch, DataDog, Grafana, Service Now, Pager Duty
• Strong individual contributor with a drive to learn and patience to teach others.
• Must be able to work with a geographically dispersed team.
• Ability to develop and implement high-quality code in a timely manner
• Great communication and collaboration skills and a strong work ethic.
• Ability to thrive in a dynamic, collaborative, and fast paced environment.
• Strong interpersonal skills as well as strong problem-solving and analytical skill
• Attention to detail

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Master’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering or related technical discipline is highly desirable.
• Previous work experience in Media Supply Chains.
• Experience working with vendor teams to deliver high quality results.
• Experience developing workflow orchestrations, data integrations, and data pipelines.
• Strong curiosity about how Disney delivers the Magic and a desire to be a part of it.

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:

2026-03-26