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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.

4. Content Platforms & Operations is responsible for the development and ongoing advancement of the technical and operational functions driving the worldwide distribution and monetization of Disney’s linear networks and theatrical content. This includes Disney’s media supply chain and storage, network and theatrical distribution operations, media localization, network transmission and origination, and more. The global team also plays a critical role as the primary collaboration point for Product & Technology with Disney’s EMEA, APAC, and LATAM regional business teams.

Job Summary:

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Product Software Engineer to join our content platform engineering team, focusing on building, supporting, and enhancing platforms, workflows, and products with a strong emphasis on data integrations, workflow orchestrations, and product development. Our team develops and manages a diverse suite of products, workflows, and services that power Disney’s entertainment and sports media supply chain, enabling content ingestion, processing and delivery for iconic brands like Disney+, ESPN+, Hulu, ABC, Freeform, FX, National Geographic, and Disney kid’s networks content.

In this role, you will design and build scalable products, workflows, and data integrations, that deliver metadata transformations, validations, routing, and enrichment around shortform and longform media assets. Your work will support linear, video on demand, streaming, digital products, and content distribution. Leveraging modern software engineering practices and cloud infrastructure, you will build robust, extensible frontend, backend applications that enable content ingestion, preparation, distribution, and content operations at scale.

Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:

• Write and Maintain Software Solutions: Design, write, test, and deploy high-quality code to develop reliable, maintainable software solutions.

• Collaborate with Cross-Functional Teams: Work closely with product software engineers, platform engineers, product teams, and content operations teams to ensure technical solutions effectively support business goals and content strategies.

• Production Support: Monitor and optimize production systems, ensuring platform stability, performance, and uptime.

• Mentorship: Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous learning.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

• 5+ years of full-stack experience building scalable, high-traffic backend services and responsive frontends.

• Proficient in Java, Spring Boot, JavaScript, React, Kafka, and AWS.

• Solid understanding of state management patterns, component lifecycle, and React framework and libraries.

• Knowledge of front-end performance optimization techniques such as lazy loading, code splitting, and caching.

• Familiarity with design systems, component libraries, and UI frameworks.

• Strong expertise in microservices architecture, RESTful API design, database schemas (Relational & NoSQL), and containerization (Docker/Kubernetes).

• Leadership & Collaboration: Proven track record in Agile environments, driving peer mentorship, conducting code reviews, and collaborating across cross-functional teams (Product, DevOps, QA).

• Strong problem-solving and communication skills, with the ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions and explain complex concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

• Experience working with advanced AI developer tools, and custom agentic workflows to accelerate the software development lifecycle (SDLC).

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with distributed systems, messaging technologies, or event-driven architectures (Kafka, SNS/SQS, ActiveMQ, or similar).

• Familiarity with advanced backend technologies such as gRPC, GraphQL, or reactive programming frameworks.

• Establish and maintain strict architectural guidelines, naming conventions, and design patterns to ensure AI-generated code meets enterprise standards for security, maintainability, and clean code principles.

• Knowledge of streaming workflows, video content delivery, or media distribution pipelines.

• Previous experience working in media, entertainment, or sports tech environments.

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