Product Software Engineer II

The Walt Disney Company • Glendale, NY

3d • Hybrid

About The Position

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. Our Technologists are designing and building the products and platforms that will power our media, advertising, and distribution businesses for years to come. 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. We develop and implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms, and solve complex and distinctive technical problems.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent training or work experience
• 3+ years of experience in software engineering
• Strong TypeScript and modern JavaScript, including ESM and CJS module systems and interoperability
• Experience building or maintaining full-stack web applications — SSR frameworks, REST APIs, relational databases
• Hands-on experience with AWS services, including S3, CloudFront, RDS, and CloudWatch
• Experience building or consuming CI/CD pipelines — GitHub Actions, release automation, versioning and publish workflows
• Comfort working with Infrastructure-as-Code tooling, Terraform preferred
• Ability to independently ramp on an existing production system using code, documentation, and architectural context as primary resources
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; this team works async-first through PRs, RFCs, and GitHub discussions

Nice To Haves

• Experience building developer-facing tooling or platform infrastructure — systems built for engineers rather than end users
• SDK authorship experience — TypeScript generics, type inference, versioning, ESM/CJS compatibility, Vite and Webpack plugin development
• Familiarity with feature flagging systems such as LaunchDarkly and runtime configuration or tag-resolution patterns
• Background in runtime deployment, CDN-backed package distribution, or versioned release automation
• Experience with web video player technology — MSE, EME, HLS, DASH — or streaming platform engineering
• React and component library development experience
• Experience with observability tooling — CloudWatch, dashboards, alerting, and metric instrumentation

Responsibilities

• Implement and maintain video playback features across Web, Chromecast, and Browser Based Devices including player controls, overlays, and UI components within a shared TypeScript/JavaScript monorepo
• Diagnose and resolve production bugs across multiple brand properties (Disney+, ESPN+, Hulu, Disney Now, ABC News) up to and including P1-severity incidents requiring independent root-cause analysis
• Develop and maintain Chromecast sender and receiver functionality, ensuring playback parity and correct behavior across cast sessions including audio/subtitle selection, scrubbing, and error handling
• Build and support Browser Based Device (BBD) playback experiences, accounting for platform-specific input models, performance constraints, and rendering differences across device categories
• Write clean, well-tested code with appropriate unit and integration test coverage; participate in and contribute to the team's Playwright end-to-end test suite
• Contribute to team-wide code review across platform, core-ui, and brand UI packages, providing constructive feedback and maintaining code quality standards across the monorepo
• Instrument and maintain analytics and telemetry integrations (QoE, Conviva, Adobe, DCF) to ensure accurate playback event tracking across platforms and devices
• Support accessibility requirements including keyboard navigation, screen reader compatibility, and caption/subtitle rendering across all supported surfaces
• Collaborate with senior engineers on architectural decisions, RFC discussions, and cross-brand platform initiatives
• Participate in on-call or incident response rotations, helping triage and resolve production playback issues across brands as they arise
• Work closely with QA, product, and partner teams to validate features, reproduce reported issues, and ensure delivery against roadmap commitments

Benefits

• A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree