Senior Product Software Engineer - Linear Advertising 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

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:

• 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.
• 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.
• Innovation: We develop and implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms, and solve complex and distinctive technical problems.

Ad Platforms is responsible for Disney's industry-leading ad technology and products – driving advertising performance, innovation, and value in Disney's sports, news, and entertainment content, across all media platforms.

Job Summary

As a Sr Product Software Engineer, you will help our team build our linear advertising platform.

On a Daily Basis You Should Bring

• A willingness and desire to effectively communicate and collaborate across teams and systems.
• An understanding of the importance of project ownership.
• A passion for mentoring, learning, and adapting to a very dynamic and fast-paced environment.
• An understanding of micro-service encapsulation and loose coupling, and why they are important.
• An understanding of how to define technical and operational metrics to measure system health and to manage risk.
• Kindness and pragmatic optimism.

Responsibilities And Duties Of The Role

• Designing, implementing, and testing solutions to various engineering problems in a high-throughput, low-latency microservices environment.
• Enhancing systems’ observability with proper metrics, monitors, and alerts.
• Reading and understanding product user stories, and then translating them into actionable tasks.
• Taking ownership of one or more of the team's domain areas.
• Understanding and using automated tools (AI) while adhering to company policy.
• Available for On-Call rotations based on the team’s escalation policy and support schedule.

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• Proficiency with Java, Spring Boot and ORMs
• Experience with ReactJS or similar frontend frameworks, with the ability to quickly pick up new technologies.
• Relational databases, such as MySQL or Postgres
• NoSQL databases such as DynamoDB and Redis.
• Demonstrable analytical / problem-solving skills.
• Great communication, collaboration skills, and a strong teamwork ethic with both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Cloud platforms such as AWS.
• Modern DevOps tools such as Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes.
• Data Streaming Mechanisms such as Apache Kafka, Kinesis, and/or SNS/SQS.
• Familiarity with AI Coding tools such as Cursor, Claude Code and/or Github Copilot along with Python programming language.
• Develop, refine, and evaluate prompts and workflows for LLM-based APIs.
• Build and support agentic workflows, including multi-step, tool-using agents and multiagent orchestration patterns (e.g., MCP, agent-to-agent).
• Domain knowledge in the Ad Tech industry.

Required Education

• BS or MS in Computer Science / Engineering or relevant work experience.

Additional Information

• Will require to work 4 days in office
• Office Location - Bristol, CT (preferred) or NYC

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The hiring range for this position in Bristol, CT is between $141,900 - $190,300 and New York, NY is between $148,700 - $199,400. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate's geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.