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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 are hiring a Product Software Engineer II to join the Bangalore based AI Core team, partnering closely with U.S. AI Core engineers to build and enhance developer facing tooling and control plane systems across Ad Platforms.

In this role, you will contribute to the implementation of evaluation dashboards, experimentation tools, trace visualization systems, and backend APIs that expose reusable AI capabilities to product teams. You will focus on building scalable, reliable fullstack systems that improve developer experience and support safe AI experimentation.

This position is hands-on and execution focused, contributing to the development and evolution of AI Core enablement systems across Ad Platforms.

Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:

Fullstack Development and Implementation

• Implement frontend and backend features supporting AI Core control plane systems, including evaluation dashboards and experimentation workflows.

• Develop and maintain APIs that integrate with AI orchestration services and model providers.

• Build reusable UI components and backend modules that support internal developer tooling.

• Participate in the development of trace visualization and observability surfaces for agent-based workflows.

Backend Integration and AI Workflow Support

• Integrate LLM APIs and support structured agent workflows using frameworks such as LangGraph or similar orchestration tools.

• Assist in implementing evaluation and experimentation workflows that promote efficient and responsible model usage.

• Debug, optimize, and improve performance of fullstack systems in collaboration with the broader engineering team.

Quality and Operational Support

• Ensure services and applications meet standards for reliability, scalability, and production readiness.

• Write unit and integration tests and contribute to CI/CD pipelines.

• Participate in code reviews and incorporate feedback to improve implementation quality. • Support monitoring, logging, and operational improvements for AI Core enablement systems.

Collaboration

• Work closely with product, UX, infrastructure, and governance teams to deliver AI tooling aligned with business needs.

• Collaborate with U.S. AI Core engineers to implement roadmap aligned features.

• Participate in technical discussions and contribute implementation perspectives and tradeoffs.

Basic Qualifications:

• 2+ years of software engineering experience with backend and frontend development exposure.

• Strong proficiency in Python for backend development.

• Experience building modern frontend applications using frameworks such as React, Next.js, or similar.

• Experience building APIs and working with distributed systems.

• Exposure to LLM APIs and agent orchestration frameworks such as LangGraph or similar tools.

• Experience contributing to internal tools, developer platforms, or shared services in production environments.

• Understanding of CI/CD, automated testing, and modern engineering best practices.

• Strong problem solving skills and ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience contributing to evaluation tooling or experimentation platforms.

• Experience working with observability and monitoring tools.

• Experience working in cloud environments such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.

• Experience working in globally distributed engineering teams.

Experience with:

• Fullstack development and internal tooling.

• Backend APIs and microservices.

• LLM integrations and workflow based AI systems.

• Frontend frameworks such as React or similar.

• Cloud environments and production systems.

Required Education:

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

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