Staff Software Engineer

Job Posting Title:

Staff Software Engineer

Req ID:

10152361

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. 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.

Job Summary:

We’re looking for a Staff Product Development Engineer to guide the support and maintenance of cloud infrastructure powering Disney’s Ad Technology application services. This includes AWS-based platforms such as EKS, Istio, Jenkins, Spinnaker, and Terraform modules. You’ll lead day-to-day technical execution for incident response, troubleshooting, and platform reliability, while mentoring engineers and partnering with platform teams to drive operational improvements. This role is ideal for someone with deep infrastructure expertise, strong debugging skills, and a passion for keeping core developer platforms stable, secure, and efficient.
 

Responsibilities:

• Technical Leadership & Design: Drive infrastructure and tooling design decisions in partnership with engineering leadership and platform architects.

• Hands-on Engineering & Automation: Contribute to codebases for Terraform modules, observability improvements, CI/CD pipelines, and internal tools.

• Incident Response & Escalation: Serve as first technical point of escalation for support incidents, guiding root cause analysis and recovery.

• Mentorship & Code Review: Mentor team members through design guidance, pairing, code reviews, and knowledge sharing.

• Platform Migration & Reliability Initiatives: Lead infrastructure upgrade/migration efforts and collaborate on initiatives to improve availability and performance.

Basic Qualifications:

• 6+ years of experience in infrastructure, DevOps, or platform engineering roles.

• Proven experience designing, operating, and supporting AWS infrastructure (EKS, IAM, VPC, ALB/NLB).

• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes (EKS) and Istio service mesh in production environments.

• Proficiency in infrastructure-as-code (Terraform), CI/CD (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Spinnaker), and scripting (Python, Go, or similar).

• Demonstrated experience mentoring engineers and leading through technical influence.

• Experience responding to high-severity incidents and driving root cause resolution across globally distributed teams.

• Experience leading teams in on-call rotations or incident resolution processes across globally distributed teams.

• Expert communicator

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience leading infrastructure upgrades, migrations, or platform standardization efforts.

• Familiarity with Datadog, Prometheus, or other observability tools.

• Exposure to cloud-native security practices (TLS, IAM, workload identity).

• Experience with hybrid/multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP).

• Background in ad tech, media, or regulated environments (SOX, CCPA).

Required Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field (or equivalent experience)

Job Posting Segment:

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology

Job Posting Primary Business:

Ad Platforms

Primary Job Posting Category:

Software Engineer

Employment Type:

Full time

Primary City, State, Region, Postal Code:

Bangalore, India

Alternate City, State, Region, Postal Code:

Date Posted:

2026-08-07