Product Software Engineering Architect

A few reasons why we think you’d love working for Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology 

1. Building the future of Disney’s media business: DE&E Technologists are  designing and building the infrastructure that will power Disney’s media, advertising,  and distribution businesses for years to come.  

2. Reach & Scale: The products and platforms this group builds and operates delight  millions of consumers every minute of every day – from Disney+ and Hulu, to ABC  News and Entertainment, to ESPN and ESPN+, and much more.  

3. Innovation: We develop and execute groundbreaking products and techniques that  shape industry norms and enhance how audiences experience sports, entertainment  & news. 

Experimentation & Experience Controls 

The Experimentation and Experience Controls (EEC) team owns and operates WeaponX, Disney Streaming’s internal Feature Lifecycle platform. We enable product and engineering teams across Disney+, ESPN and Hulu to safely experiment, measure performance, and roll out features through advanced A/B testing, feature flagging, and audience targeting. 

We’re building an industry-leading platform that makes experimentation seamless, supports thousands of concurrent tests, and automatically surfaces actionable insights. By combining platform engineering, data science, and product strategy, we deliver reliable, scalable systems that drive data-driven decision-making and directly shape how millions of people experience Disney’s streaming products

As a Principal Product Development Engineer within the Experimentation & Experience Controls team you will be working across multiple squads and initiatives in order to guide the direction and architecture of multi-region global distributed systems.  

You will be a key part of an engaging, dynamic and inclusive engineering organization, grounded in scrum and agile practices, CI/CD, great collaboration and motivated by a commitment to continuous learning and improvement. 

You’ll coordinate with other lead & principal engineers to drive several critical and complex projects including A/B Testing, Feature Flagging, and User Cohort Targeting. The scope and usage of each of these projects reaches far outside of our immediate organization, covering not just our streaming products, but also Disney’s entertainment brands from across the business.

• Be hands-on. Working with engineers across multiple global teams, often leading proof of concept designs and providing guidance to prove out ideas that define the forward looking technological direction. 
• Influence the roadmap for multiple teams, working in partnership with your peers and partners across Product, Project Management, and Engineering. 
• Understand the strategic business goals of the organization and use this to guide cross team solutions, architecture, and priorities that bring significant business value without unnecessary technical complexity or risk. 
• Be present in cross organizational discussions, representing engineers within your teams. Use your knowledge to proactively identify and document architectural gaps and focus areas. 
• Contribute to an inclusive culture that values learning and development, close collaboration between team members, and strives for excellence. 
• Mentor engineers across teams to help them improve their technical abilities and build their profiles within and outside of the organization.