Lead Product Software Engineer: Vision & Content Pipelines

Disney Entertainment

Bristol (CT)

On-site

USD 158,000 - 212,000

Full time

13 days ago

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Job summary

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is seeking a Lead Product Software Engineer to join our Content Platform Engineering team, building content inspection pipelines for scalable media analysis.

You will lead systems applying computer vision and vision-language models to extract temporal metadata from video and images, enabling automated inspection and enrichment across Disney’s global content ecosystem.

Qualifications

7+ years of relevant industry experience.
Strong proficiency in Java or Python.
Experience designing distributed systems and APIs (REST/GraphQL).
Strong experience with AWS and cloud-native design.
Proven ability to translate product requirements into scalable technical solutions.
Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies.
Experience with Agile/Scrum methodology.
Team player with strong oral and written communications skills.

Responsibilities

Lead technical execution across complex and ambiguous problem spaces by translating product and business requirements into effective technical solutions.
Write, test, and deploy high quality code to develop reliable, maintainable software solutions.
Partner with platform engineers, product teams, and other stakeholders to align on technical approaches and ensure solutions support business goals.
Provide production support through issue investigation, on‑call participation, and remediation of defects to ensure stable operation.
Raise engineering quality by mentoring peers and promoting strong practices in design reviews, code reviews, testing, and documentation