Sr Product Software Engineer

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.

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.

Ad Serving Engineering within Disney Entertainment and ESPN is responsible for building, enhancing, and maintaining the high-performance, distributed, microservice-based Digital Advertising Platform. This platform qualifies, delivers, and tracks Digital Advertising campaigns (Video on Demand, Live TV, and interactive ads) across all Disney online properties including Hulu and ESPN+. Ad Serving teams also collaborate on supporting components such as anti-ad fatigue systems, impression counting pipelines, and ad experience flows, as well as integrations with pacing, targeting, and ad selection systems. Increasingly, teams also evaluate opportunities to productionize and integrate LLMs/models into high-scale service.

What you'll do:

• Build components of large-scale orchestration platform for VOD ad serving

• Contribute to the best engineering practices, including the use of design patterns, CI/CD, code review and automated test

• Chip in ground-breaking innovation and apply the state-of-the-art technologies such as LLM-assisted processing or model-driven decisioning.

• As a key member of the team, contribute to all aspects of the software lifecycle: design, experimentation, implementation and testing.

• Collaborate with program managers, product managers, SDET, and researchers in an open and innovative environment

Basic Qualification:

• Minimum of 5 years of related experience creating and coding backend services

• BS in Computer Science / Engineering or equivalent experience.

• Expertise in at least one language on the JVM

• Experience working with cloud providers

• Familiarity with databases (SQL and NoSQL)

• Experience investigating technical components and taking ownership of feature development

Preferred Qualifications - Comprehensive Experience with:

• SpringBoot and related Spring projects.

• Non-relational databases (e.g., DynamoDB).

• Redis and/or MemCache.

• AWS or other cloud providers.

• Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes.

• Ad Tech industry experience.

• Experience with prompt / tool pattern design, function calling, streaming, and context management

The hiring range for this position in Los Angeles, California is $141,900 to 190,300 per year, Seattle, WA is $148,700 to $199,400, and San Francisco, CA is $155,400 to $208,400 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.