Product Software Engineer II - Backend & Scale

Disney; Glendale (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Disney is hiring a Product Software Engineer II to join the News Distribution Platform team in Glendale, CA. You will help design, build, and test scalable backend services that deliver trusted journalism and breaking news experiences to millions of guests across ABC News brands.

You’ll work with Golang and Java in a cloud environment, focusing on performance, reliability, and incident response while collaborating closely with product, editorial, and engineering teams to translate business

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, or related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 3+ years building and operating highly available, distributed backend systems in production.
• Experience with Golang (preferred) and/or Java for backend services.
• Experience deploying and scaling services in AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Understanding of caching technologies (Redis, Memcached, or similar).
• Strong problem-solving skills with a proactive, detail-oriented approach.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and source control (Git, Gitlab, Jenkins).
• Experience with observability tools for metrics, logging, and monitoring (Datadog, Grafana).
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum development environments.

Responsibilities

• Communicate effectively with stakeholders on project progress.
• Design and develop new solutions and drive alignment across engineering and product teams.
• Test new code with unit, integration, and performance tests.
• Follow on-call practices including deployments, monitoring, and incident handling.
• Use logs and monitoring tools to identify root causes across distributed components during incidents.
• Participate in code reviews and uphold code quality.
• Collaborate with product, editorial, and engineering stakeholders to translate requirements into robust solutions.
• Promote engineering best practices across code quality, testing, CI/CD, and observability.

Skills

Backend development

Distributed systems

Golang

Java

Cloud/AWS

CI/CD

Observability

Agile/Scrum

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS/Engineering

Tools

Git

Gitlab

Jenkins

Datadog

Grafana

Redis

Memcached

AWS

Job description

Disney is hiring a Product Software Engineer II to join the News Distribution Platform team in Glendale, CA. You will help design, build, and test scalable backend services that deliver trusted journalism and breaking news experiences to millions of guests across ABC News brands.

You’ll work with Golang and Java in a cloud environment, focusing on performance, reliability, and incident response while collaborating closely with product, editorial, and engineering teams to translate business