Senior Product Software Engineer - Linear Advertising Platform
About The Position
Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is a global organization of engineers, product developers, designers, technologists, and data scientists. The team builds and advances the technological backbone for Disney’s media business globally, marrying technology with creativity to build world-class products, enhance storytelling, and drive velocity, innovation, and scalability. Technologists are designing and building the products and platforms that will power Disney’s media, advertising, and distribution businesses. The Ad Platforms team is responsible for Disney’s industry-leading ad technology and products, driving advertising performance, innovation, and value across Disney’s sports, news, and entertainment content, on all media platforms. As a Sr Product Software Engineer, you will help our team build our linear advertising platform.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience.
- Proficiency with Java, Spring Boot and ORMs
- Experience with ReactJS or similar frontend frameworks, with the ability to quickly pick up new technologies.
- Relational databases, such as MySQL or Postgres
- NoSQL databases such as DynamoDB and Redis.
- Demonstrable analytical / problem-solving skills.
- Great communication, collaboration skills, and a strong teamwork ethic with both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Cloud platforms such as AWS.
- Modern DevOps tools such as Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes.
- Data Streaming Mechanisms such as Apache Kafka, Kinesis, and/or SNS/SQS.
- Familiarity with AI Coding tools such as Cursor, Claude Code and/or Github Copilot along with Python programming language.
- BS or MS in Computer Science / Engineering or relevant work experience.
Nice To Haves
- Domain knowledge in the Ad Tech industry.
Responsibilities
- Designing, implementing, and testing solutions to various engineering problems in a high-throughput, low-latency microservices environment.
- Enhancing systems’ observability with proper metrics, monitors, and alerts.
- Reading and understanding product user stories, and then translating them into actionable tasks.
- Taking ownership of one or more of the team's domain areas.
- Understanding and using automated tools (AI) while adhering to company policy.
- Available for On-Call rotations based on the team’s escalation policy and support schedule.
- Develop, refine, and evaluate prompts and workflows for LLM-based APIs.
- Build and support agentic workflows, including multi-step, tool-using agents and multiagent orchestration patterns (e.g., MCP, agent-to-agent).
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.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
Associate degree
