Sr Product Software Engineer I

Job Posting Title:
Sr Product Software Engineer I

Req ID:
10152134

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:

1 . 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.

2. 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.

3. Innovation : We develop and implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms, and solve complex and distinctive technical problems.

Job Summary

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will use your deep Java, scripting, DevOps, and data persistence skills to write and test code that delivers new features for our application portfolio. You will be an important part of a motivated team where we’ll be looking for you to collaborate with the team to drive application architecture, code quality, and make sure we are building the right things for our users. We want someone that has grown up through the web software development ranks - possessing 5 or more years’ experience in designing and architecting highly scalable, secure, performant, and usable web applications using Java/Java EE. The ideal candidate would possess deep skills in server side technology (Java, Spring, RESTful Web Services), while having expertise with orchestration and containerization platforms (Docker and Kubernetes), coupled with hands on persistence and data streaming technology experience (MySQL, Oracle, Cassandra, Redis, Kafka).

We would like you to be comfortable performing multiple roles. We strive to get things done quickly, with high quality, and we are committed to the agile methodology. Our work is guided by lean principles (looking at value and looking for waste; not doing anything ‘for the sake of doing it’).

We’re looking for a passionate, impactful, technical leader who wants to come here to do their very best work and make their mark, add their chapter to the long and storied history of The Walt Disney Company. Someone who holds themselves and their teammates accountable in a professional, collaborative manner. A collaborative technologist who seeks to bring the best out in themselves and those around them. Someone who can provide a fresh perspective and innovative insight to our initiatives.

Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:

● Collaborate with leads and influence software architecture and design to ensure that you are delivering high quality work that aligns with Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology engineering strategy.

● Collaborate on the design, development, maintenance, testing strategy, and operations of Integration API services written primarily in Java.

● Develop secure and highly performant integration services and APIs

● Collaborate with and influence technical teams to deliver quality software and ensure the maintainability and quality of code

● Engage with product and technology leaders to understand and translate requirement needs into executable solutions

● Check-in valuable, clean code on a daily basis that adds new features and capabilities

● Create reference implementations for the purpose of mentoring and leading more junior staff (when required)

● Help define engineering best practices and provide technical mentorship

● Investigate and resolve any production issues from end user (UI) to service layer and work to prevent them

● Strong experience in designing and building multithreaded, distributed systems

● We rely heavily on the following tools and technologies:

o Kafka for our asynchronous and event driven architectures

o Java, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud for application development

o Kubernetes and Docker to schedule and run our services

o AWS for most of our infrastructure

o Observability Platforms for monitoring, alerting, logging and metering. We also have multiple physical datacenter sites to connect to various third-party systems.

Basic Qualifications

● Have 5+ years of experience in Integration tools and technologies and software using Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, workflow orchestration, decision rules, API gateway, service mesh, event driven & API based microservices.

● Hands-on experience with AWS services and cloud architecture

● Hands-on experience with GitLab and CI/CD

● Have a strong interest in integration and open source technologies.

● Strong knowledge of integration architectures, best practices, tools, techniques and platforms.

● Have some previous experience in leading teams across multiple locations and vendors.

Preferred Qualifications

● Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related technical discipline is highly desirable

● Previous work experience in integration applications, products and platforms

● Experience working with vendor teams to deliver high quality results

● Knowledge of performance testing and application profiling (Gatling, JProfiler)

● Strong curiosity about how Disney delivers the Magic and a desire to be a part of it

Required Education

● Hold a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Engineering, or another technical field

Department-Specific Boiler Plates:

Ad Platforms

● 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.

Business Operations

● The Business Operations team helps guide and articulate technology strategy and research, and is responsible for driving the day-to-day operation of the Product & Technology organization, including: project and portfolio management and tracking; organization-level capital, space, and resource management and allocation; process management; technical incident management; and our administrative and workplace experience support team.

Commerce, Data & Identity

● Commerce, Data & Identity provides the core product management functions for areas crucial to Disney’s media businesses. These include initiatives and products that power digital commerce, identity, and growth, as well as those that reach uniquely across The Walt Disney Company enterprise, such as messaging and privacy, among others. Additionally, it is responsible for the data engineering, science, and products for Disney Entertainment & ESPN, along with their interconnection with other parts of The Walt Disney Company.

Content Platforms & Operations

● Content Platforms & Operations is responsible for the development and ongoing advancement of the technical and operational functions driving the worldwide distribution and monetization of Disney’s linear networks and theatrical content. This includes Disney’s media supply chain and storage, network and theatrical distribution operations, media localization, network transmission and origination, and more. The global team also plays a critical role as the primary collaboration point for Product & Technology with Disney’s EMEA, APAC, and LATAM regional business teams.

Design

● Design is centrally responsible for the design supporting all consumer-facing and business products and tooling for the Disney Entertainment & ESPN portfolio, including sports, entertainment, enterprise, UX, creative services and design research.

Product Engineering

● 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

Product Management

● Product Management is responsible for driving the overall user experience, feature strategies and concepts, and engagement paradigms for Disney Entertainment & ESPN's global portfolio of consumer-facing streaming and digital products – including Disney+, Hulu, ESPN, ABC, ABC News, Nat Geo, Marvel, and Star Wars

Job Posting Segment:
Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology

Job Posting Primary Business:
Ad Platforms

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:
2026-10-15