Sr Product Software Engineering Mgr

Job Posting Title:

Sr Product Software Engineering Mgr

Req ID:

10152165

Job Description:

Job Summary:

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.

The Addressable Engineering organization within Disney Entertainment and ESPN organization is fully responsible for building, enhancing and maintaining the high-performance, distributed, microservice-based Digital Advertising Platform. The platform is charged with the privacy compliant qualification, selection, delivery, and tracking of Digital Advertising campaigns for Video on Demand, Live TV, innovative interactive ads, and Programmatic Solutions across all of Disney online properties, including D+, Hulu and ESPN+ in domestic and international markets.

This is a hands-on technical leadership position, ideal for leaders who enjoy staying close to architecture, design, and code while managing engineers and managers; and building strong engineering organizations. You’ll draw from deep and broad technical expertise to mentor engineers, complete hands-on technical work, and provide leadership on complex technical issues. You will play a key role in scaling the platform through modernization efforts, and growing the next generation of engineering leadership in India. You’ll be a strong advocate of responsible usage of artificial intelligence to improve software quality and developer productivity.

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.

Responsibilities

● Organizational Leadership and Talent Mentorship

○ Mentor engineering leads and managers in streamlining operational execution, strategic communication, and high-impact partnership management. Champion the professional growth and career trajectories of individuals both within and beyond your immediate organization.

○ Orchestrate planning cycles and review mechanisms, including resource allocation strategies to ensure they align with the Ads Ad Server and Alliance priorities.

○ Cultivate a culture defined by psychological safety, exceptional engineering standards, and long-term operational sustainability.

● Strategic Engineering Delivery

○ Guarantee consistent product delivery by ensuring clear roadmap priorities in partnership with US teams and managing complex cross-functional dependencies.

○ Own delivery of mission-critical, revenue-generating systems and improve quality of software and enhance customer experience.

● Technical Excellence and Reliability

○ Advocate and spearhead continuous enhancements in system performance, specifically targeting latency reduction and increased fault tolerance in ad serving and comprehensive monitoring of revenue-critical services.

○ Lead complex, high-impact projects and act as a hands-on technical leader influencing architecture, design, and code quality.

○ Be a strong advocate of responsible usage of tools to improve quality and developer productivity.

● Collaborative Stakeholder Alignment

○ Convert high-level business objectives into actionable technical roadmaps while providing transparency regarding engineering trade-offs.

○ Partner with legal, privacy, and security teams to ensure platform initiatives remain compliant with evolving industry standards.

○ Serve as technical leader and partner with leaders across engineering, data, and operations worldwide; across time-zones; to align on requirements and priorities, ensuring infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, DBA, and Data Operations needs are consistently met for changes, releases, and incident response.

● Growth and Organizational Design

○ Expand the engineering footprint including managers through responsible hiring practices and the cultivation of inclusive, high-quality interview pipelines.

Basic Qualifications:

● Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related field.

● 10+ years of relevant industry experience, with at least 3 years in a people-management (including managing managers) and technical leadership role.

● Demonstrated capability to navigate and lead within high-velocity in a fast pace environment

● Exceptional interpersonal and collaborative abilities, with the talent to communicate strategic roadmaps and complex architecture to cross-functional stakeholders.

● Demonstrated success owning high-traffic, low-latency production systems where mistakes are costly (e.g., ads, search, feeds, payments, streaming, marketplaces).

● Mastery in implementing Agile methodologies and CI/CD workflows to drive operational excellence across global infrastructure and operations units.

● Proven ability to shape requirements, define milestones, and negotiate scope under constraints.

● Superior ability to articulate complex technical architectures and strategic visions to various audiences, ranging from executive leadership to engineering teams and non-technical partners.

● Advanced Proficiency in:

○ Designing cloud native applications with modern software stacks including Java, Spring Boot, and RESTful APIs, alongside Python and Terraform; a focus on GenAI for pioneering platform innovation is highly valued.

○ Experience with diverse relational and NoSQL technologies, including Aurora, Redis, DynamoDB, and ElasticSearch.

○ Optimizing platform reliability and incident response through comprehensive observability workflows using tools like Datadog, Grafana

○ Applying core principles of object-oriented development and dependency injection to maintain secure, scalable, and API-driven enterprise codebases.

Preferred Qualifications:

● Ad tech experience

● Familiarity with ML-adjacent serving, integrated and safe deployment patterns.

Job Posting Segment:

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology

Job Posting Primary Business:

Ad Platforms

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:

2026-06-10