Senior Software Engineer I

Job Posting Title:

Senior Software Engineer I

Req ID:

10159693

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:

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.

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. 

Innovation: We develop and implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms and solve complex and distinctive technical problems.

Job Summary:

We are looking for a software engineer to help us grow the data platform. You will be embedded in the Compute team that runs the Data Lake platform that helps power the analytics, operations, and data science behind our flagship streaming applications - Disney+, Hulu, ESPN+, and Star+. You’ll get to understand the challenges of how data is being used at Disney’s world-class streaming services while pushing the boundaries of what is possible using the latest technologies available in AWS, Databricks, and beyond.

Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:

● Be a key player in a cross-functional team of engineers who build software for a large-scale data processing ecosystem, supporting real-time and batch data pipelines for analytics, data science, and operations.

● Maintain software engineering and architecture best practices and standards within the team and wider organization, along with a culture of quality, innovation, and experimentation

● Evangelize and evolve the platform, best-practices, data driven decisions; identify new use cases and features and drive adoption

● Be a part of the magic (partner) for countless teams as they use the Data Lake platform, helping architect and solution for success.

Required Education, Experience/Skills/Training:

● Be a key player in a cross-functional team of engineers who build software for a large-scale data processing ecosystem, supporting real-time and batch data pipelines for analytics, data science, and operations.

● Maintain software engineering and architecture best practices and standards within the team and wider organization, along with a culture of quality, innovation, and experimentation

● Evangelize and evolve the platform, best-practices, data driven decisions; identify new use cases and features and drive adoption

● Be a part of the magic (partner) for countless teams as they use the Data Lake platform, helping architect and solution for success

Required Education, Experience/Skills/Training:

● Experience deploying and running cloud-based applications (preferably AWS), utilizing infrastructure as-code frameworks like Terraform

● Experience with Python

● Ability to dive deep into any technical component as well as understand the overall systems architecture

● You care deeply about craftsmanship in your software, and can work backwards from the customer experience

● You have excellent written and verbal communication skills Preferred Qualifications ● Knowledge of Data Engineering practices and tools, such as Spark, Snowflake, ETL concepts, etc.

Required Education

● 5+ years of relevant professional experience and Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field OR 3+ years of relevant professional experiences and a Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field.

Job Posting Segment:

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology

Job Posting Primary Business:

Commerce, Data & Identity

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:

2026-09-02