Senior Product Software Engineer
Job Summary:
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.
Product Engineering is a unified team responsible for the engineering of Disney Entertainment & ESPN digital and streaming products and platforms. This includes product engineering, media engineering, quality assurance, engineering behind personalization, commerce, lifecycle, and identity.
The News Distribution Platform team is responsible for building the data pipelines and core distribution services that deliver trusted journalism and breaking news experiences to millions of guests across ABC News, Good Morning America, and local television stations in eight major markets, including Los Angeles and New York. Our services enable real-time publishing, syndication, and distribution of content across web, mobile, and connected TV platforms.
We operate systems that sit in the critical path of the News organization, where performance, scalability, and reliability are paramount - especially during high-profile live events and breaking news moments. Our mission is to ensure seamless, resilient, and low-latency content delivery at scale while continuously modernizing and evolving our solution.
As a Senior Product Software Engineer, you will play a key role in shaping the technical direction of the News Distribution Platform. You will lead the design and delivery of scalable backend services, influence architectural decisions, and partner across product, design, and engineering teams to power excellent guest experiences. You will be expected to operate with a high degree of ownership and accountability, raise the engineering bar, and proactively drive improvements that enhance reliability, performance, and developer effectiveness.
Responsibilities:
- Own complex technical initiatives end-to-end, from design to deployment.
- Set the architectural direction of backend distribution APIs and services.
- Partner with product and engineering teams to deliver solutions.
- Prioritize initiatives and technical workstreams for high-impact outcomes.
- Champion engineering best practices across code quality, testing, CI/CD, and security.
- Set standards for operational excellence, including monitoring and on-call processes.
- Perform code reviews and uphold technical rigor.
- Mentor and coach engineers.
- Drive performance optimization and data stores.
- Contribute to technical documentation.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
- Years of experience with distributed systems.
- Strong experience with backend services using Go and/or Java.
- Experience deploying in cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS.
- Deep understanding of caching technologies.
- Proven leadership and mentoring skills.
- Strong problem-solving skills.
- Experience with CI/CD and source control.
- Experience with observability tools.
- Experience in Agile/Scrum environments.
- Strong communication skills.