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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. April 2025
3. Innovation: We develop and implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms, and solve complex and distinctive technical problems.
About The Organization
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.

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At Disney, the Metadata Authority team is building the intelligence that transforms raw video, artwork, and text into rich, structured authoritative metadata—the kind that makes it possible for millions of viewers to discover exactly what they love.
As a Software Engineer, you’ll take the latest advances in Data Architecture and Engineering and put them into production at a global scale. Your work will make our content more searchable, more personalized, and more accessible—whether it’s surfacing the perfect moment in a live sports game, generating a descriptive scene caption for accessibility, or powering a recommendation that sparks someone’s next obsession.
You’ll work with data from across the Disney ecosystem, collaborate with platform teams building our medallion-architecture data foundation, and return enriched, validated metadata into our Source of Truth systems for use in discovery, personalization, compliance, and monetization.
If you want to work at the intersection of media, data and large-scale distributed systems, and your idea of impact is seeing your code directly shape what hundreds of millions of people watch, this is your role.
Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:
Develop scalable and simple solutions to challenging engineering problems that are easy to maintain on ambitious timelines.
- Lead by example by writing well-constructed and easy-to-maintain code as well as defensive and robust tests.
- Raise the quality bar across the team by driving engineering standard methodologies and innovative tools, design patterns, and engineering processes.
- Take ambiguous or confl icting requirements and bring clarity by proposing diff erent solutions and communicating concrete and concise trade-off s.
- Deliver through others by mentoring and empowering junior engineers on the team to develop their skills.
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- Launch features across the full stack including APIs written in Java that are built in a complex microservice architecture and front-end that integrate with these APIs built with ReactJS.
Required Education, Experience/Skills/Training:
Minimum and Preferred. Inclusive of Licenses/Certs (include functional experience as well as behavioral attributes and/or leadership capabilities)
- A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- 3 years of software development experience and profi ciency in Java
- Deep understanding of computer science fundamentals, including object-oriented programming, data structures and algorithms (hashing, trees, graphs, search, etc.)
- Experience working with relational (SQL based) and non-relational database (DynamoDB, Elasticache) technologies, and messaging technologies (Kinesis, Kafka, SQS, SNS)
Nice To Haves
- Knowledge of metadata classification, entity resolution, or knowledge graph enrichment.
- Familiarity with Elasticsearch or search/indexing systems.
- Background in sports, entertainment, or media content pipelines.
Required Education & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable fi eld of study, and/or equivalent work experience.
- Minimum of 3 years related work experience.
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