Job Posting Title:

Senior Product Development Engineer I

Req ID:

10138720

Job Description:

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. 

Media Engineering builds the software and systems that prepare media content and metadata for the Disney streaming platform - providing the best possible playback experience to our viewers.

Media Engineering handles audio, video, and metadata content from ingest through publish - for normalization, processing, and packaging - supporting operator tools and automation for a scalable workflow. We build logic across players and back-end services to measure, control, and optimize playback across our technical stack.

Job Summary:
The Early Playback Enablement team mission is to enable media player engineers and QA partners to validate video and audio playback across our player stack by creating and managing test-streams, mocking relevant services, and removing related impediments. We help support new platforms, accelerate the development of our in-house media player, and improve playback quality across the Disney media ecosystem.

Our team is seeking someone to help us further support media playback across Disney's brands and to expand our capabilities to serve video and audio test content.

Your primary initiative will be to ensure our deliverables help provide a foundation for media playback innovation at Disney.

Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:

• You are an opinionated optimist who always leaves the code that you are working on better than you found it. You foster trust, approach problems with empathy and respect, and embrace creativity. You see yourself as a partner who excels in problem solving, puts users first, and cares deeply about quality.

• Develop and maintain an internal REST service written in Typescript.

• Design systems and procedures to best expand and scale our services.

• Automate processes around our deliverables.

• Use Test Driven Development practices and functional paradigms.

• Determine creative ways to surface test content and mock services across our ecosystem.

• Deliver test content to unblock our partners and/or expose new media features.

• Own the end-to-end fulfillment of test content requests.

• Support partner needs as they pertain to media playback.

• Share ownership of our playback support channels and threads.

• Create documentation around test content and relevant services.

• Understand the intricacies of playback across our brands.

• Track and execute against product and project requirements.

• Maintain of our test-stream and mock-service catalogs.

Basic Qualifications:

• 5+ years experience in JavaScript.

• 2+ years experience leading a project.

• 2+ years experience working in a cross-functional capacity.

• 2+ years experience building APIs.

• Experience mocking data and services.

• Experience writing unit tests.

• Experience with authentication, authorization, and access management.

• Experience manipulating/proxying data to augment application state.

• Experience managing collections/catalogs.

• Understanding of agile methodologies and git source control.

Experience with:

• Software Development Lifecycle including App Store compliance policies and submissions requirements.

• Experience in Streaming technologies, including: HLS, DRM technologies like Fairplay, Widevine, or Playready, Caption and subtitle formats such as CEA-608/708.

• Previous Work on a significant consumer app that is available in the marketplace.

• Previous experience writing efficient, reliable, and maintainable code whether implementing architectural improvements, user-facing features, or fixing defects.

• Troubleshooting and resolving issues, problems, and errors encountered across various platforms.

• Managing multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced, deadline-oriented environment.

• Working on a highly collaborative team that rewards quality code and effective communication.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 3+ years experience with advanced TypeScript.

• 2+ years experience working with functional paradigms.

• 5+ years experience leading a project.

• 5+ years experience working in a cross-functional capacity.

• Experience with AWS.

• Experience with SQL.

• Interest in the HLS video space.

Required Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and / or equivalent work experience.

Job Posting Segment:

Product Engineering

Job Posting Primary Business:

PE - India Product & Technology

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:

2026-04-20