Job Posting Title:

Principal Product Development Engineer

Req ID:

10143753

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.

About The Organization

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.

Job Summary:

As a Principal Full Stack Software Engineer, you will be both a hands-on technical leader and architect, with expert-level proficiency across backend and frontend technologies. You will design and implement scalable, high-performance systems that deliver exceptional user experiences while ensuring robust, maintainable, and secure backend services.

You will own architectural decisions end-to-end—spanning data models, APIs, cloud infrastructure, and UI frameworks—while contributing production-quality code that sets the benchmark for engineering excellence. Your work will influence technical direction across squads and shape the long-term roadmap for the Media Engineering organization.

Collaborating closely with Product, Project Management, and Engineering peers, you will ensure solutions meet business needs, adhere to modern best practices, and are designed for long-term success. You will be deeply involved in the full lifecycle of development, from technical strategy and system design through to hands-on coding, automated testing, deployment, and performance optimization.

You will champion engineering excellence, modern frameworks, and agile delivery practices (Scrum/Agile, CI/CD, cloud-native, functional programming) while fostering a collaborative, innovative, and continuously improving engineering culture.

Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:

Summarize job responsibilities, core deliverables and major duties.

• Lead a high-performing engineering squad in designing, building, and optimizing full stack applications that deliver a seamless operator experience for managing and distributing content to end users.
• Own end-to-end technical solutioning for complex systems—including architecture, model integration, quality scoring, and deployment—ensuring scalability, reliability, and measurable business impact.
• Architect and implement robust, high-performance software solutions across backend and frontend, leveraging deep expertise in software engineering and emerging technologies such as machine learning.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to define technical requirements, assess business value, and identify opportunities for innovation within the media supply chain and tooling ecosystem.
• Serve as both a hands-on engineer and technical leader, driving architectural direction, setting engineering standards, and leading design reviews and technical deep dives.
• Mentor and empower engineers, fostering skill development, ownership, and career growth within the team.
• Prioritize and deliver high-value initiatives, anticipating risks and implementing mitigation strategies to ensure timely, quality outcomes.
• Establish and track engineering health metrics (KPIs) to maintain quality and operational excellence as systems and products scale.
• Provide rotational on-call support to ensure system reliability and rapid incident resolution

Required Education, Experience/Skills/Training:

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

Required Skills

• Experience with React and Typescript
• Experience in programming with Backend and Frontend UI development and proficient with one or more general purpose programming languages (Python, Java, Javascript, etc)
• Desire to work in a start-up, fast-growth, or rapid-change environment
• Cloud experience: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Compute (GCP), or Microsoft Azure.

Desirable Skills

• Experience with AWS technologies and cloud infrastructure
• Experience building high performant front end applications with dynamic UIs
• Solid understanding of web accessibility fundamentals.
• Strong knowledge of web standards and new technologies.
• Understanding of async programming models (events, callbacks, promises, async/await) and threading/concurrency
• Understanding of source control concepts and systems, CI/CD pipelines and exposure to Git
• Experience with build and deployment technologies such as Jenkins and Docker. Experience with messaging technologies (e.g., Kafka, Kinesis, SQS, etc.)

Required Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience.
• Minimum of 10+ years related work experience.

Job Posting Segment:

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology

Job Posting Primary Business:

Media Engineering

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:

2026-02-26