Sr Product Software Engineer II

Job Posting Title:

Sr Product Software Engineer II

Req ID:

10138764

Job Description:

Technology is at the heart of Disney’s past, present, and future. We are Storytellers and Innovators. Creators and Builders. Engineers and Entertainers. Few places in the world combine both technological and creative excellence as uniquely as Disney. Though we’re most well-known for storytelling – innovation and pioneering technological development have always been just as much a part of our DNA. 

Disney Entertainment & ESPN Product + Technology is a global team of technologists who create amazing product experiences, shape the future of media and advertising, and build systems that enable global business. Whether it’s evolving our streaming and digital products in dynamic new ways; powering industry-leading ad technology; developing technical solutions to complex challenges in data, video and audio; or reinventing how Disney’s unmatched content reaches people around the world – each day is an opportunity for your work to impact entire industries and hundreds of millions of people who engage with Disney’s beloved brands. 

As part of this industry leading team, technologists in our India office are a vital part of building and advancing Disney’s media businesses worldwide. Our India-based engineers, product managers, designers, and technical project managers work hand-in-hand with other world-class Disney technologists around the world – impacting how audiences experience entertainment, sports, streaming, and news; advancing cutting-edge advertising and distribution systems; and elevating technological excellence at The Walt Disney Company. 

A few reasons we think you’ll love working here: 

• Impact at scale: Build products that reach millions of consumers around the world every day, for brands that are beloved. 

• Innovation and Excellence: Develop world-class products and groundbreaking technologies that redefine how audiences experience entertainment, sports, news, advertising, and more. 

• Top Tier Technology Career: Here you can build a world-class technology career that is interconnected with creativity, leading global products and brands – and a bit of magic. 

• Global collaboration: Work alongside a diverse, global team of technologists across India, US, Europe, UK and Latin America. 

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.

• Contribute to the design, development, testing, deployment, and support of stateful microservices and lambdas in a multi-region cloud environment.
• Promote and support Agile methodologies such as Scrum, Kanban, and Scrumban by actively participating in regular ceremonies such as stand-up, retrospectives and sprint planning.
• Mentor engineers within your squad (and beyond!) to help them improve their technical ability and build their profile within and outside of the organization
• Collaborate with your squad, Product Managers, Designers, QA, Operations, and other stakeholders to understand requirements and articulate technical decisions and outcomes.

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer I who is passionate about developing high performance platforms.

To be successful in this role, you need effective communication and collaboration skills, a passion for learning and trying new things, and a strong foundational understanding of programming and computer science.

As a member of our team, you will apply your knowledge and skills to help us deliver scalable, performant, maintainable, and testable software.

On a daily basis you should bring:

• A willingness and desire to effectively communicate and collaborate across teams and systems.
• A sense of ownership of the projects delivered by your team and department
• A passion for mentoring, learning, and adapting to a very dynamic and fast paced environment
• An understanding of how to define technical and operational metrics to measure system health and to manage risk.
• A keen eye for potential optimizations and enhancements to our services ● Kindness and pragmatic optimism.
• Your unique view and experience

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience
• Understanding of message based distributed, scalable, and resilient systems
• Desire to work in a start-up, fast-growth, or rapid-change environment
• Experience working on diverse teams
• Problem-solving skills to identify the root cause and implement the fix.
• Solid communication skills – written, and oral
• Ability to be flexible, adapting to changing priorities
• Fluent in multiple programming languages and an expert in at least one of: JavaScript, Python, Java
• Experience transforming requirements into software design, documentation and software.

Preferred Qualifications

• SpringBoot and related Spring projects
• Aurora MySQL and relational database design/testing/troubleshooting      
• Non-relational database technologies such as DynamoDB and OpenSearch
• Redis and/or MemCache for caching, pub/sub messaging, and distributed coordination                                                                                                                     
• SQS (FIFO and standard), SNS, and event-driven messaging architectures                                                                                                                                 
• Terraform and infrastructure as code (IaC) practices
• Expert with at least one of: AWS, Azure, GCP (AWS strongly preferred)
• Experience building, testing, and tuning distributed systems

Experience With

• Familiarity with both object-oriented programming (OOP) and functional programming (FP) best practices.
• Experience with Java and Spring Framework
• Familiarity with ElastiCache Redis (caching, pub/sub, distributed locking)                                                                                                                             
• Familiarity with Elasticsearch for content search and indexing                                                                                                                                          
• Familiarity with AWS ECS Fargate container orchestration
• Familiarity with SQS (FIFO and standard) and SNS
• Familiarity with GitLab CI/CD (Conveyor) pipelines
• Familiarity with Datadog APM, logging, and dashboard creation/monitoring                                                                                                                               
• Familiarity with S3 for configuration management, artifact storage, and content publishing                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
• Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Terraform, and infrastructure as code (IaC).

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.
• Minimum of 5 years related work experience.

Job Posting Segment:

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology

Job Posting Primary Business:

Product Management

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:

2026-07-22