Senior Product Software Engineer - Ad Tech Platform

The Walt Disney Company; Bristol (CT); On-site; USD 142,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

The Walt Disney Company's Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology organization is seeking a Sr Product Software Engineer to help build our linear advertising platform. You will design, implement, and test high-throughput microservices while aligning with product goals.

This role emphasizes observability, collaboration across teams, and ownership of domain areas. Office presence is required four days a week, with Bristol, CT being the preferred location and NYC as an alternative.

Qualifications

• BS or MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• Experience translating product stories into technical tasks.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and test high-throughput microservices.
• Improve observability with metrics, monitors, alerts.
• Translate user stories into actionable tasks.
• Own one or more domain areas.
• Use automated AI tools per policy.
• Participate in on-call rotations.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

ReactJS

MySQL

PostgreSQL

DynamoDB

Redis

AWS

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Kafka

Kinesis

SQS

Python

AI tools

LLM prompts

Team collaboration

Ad Tech domain

Education

BS in Computer Science / Engineering

Tools

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

The Walt Disney Company's Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology organization is seeking a Sr Product Software Engineer to help build our linear advertising platform. You will design, implement, and test high-throughput microservices while aligning with product goals.

This role emphasizes observability, collaboration across teams, and ownership of domain areas. Office presence is required four days a week, with Bristol, CT being the preferred location and NYC as an alternative.