Sr Product Software Engineer

Job Posting Title:

Sr Product Software Engineer

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Job Description:

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology

Technology is at the heart of Disneys 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 Disneys 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 Companys 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 youd love working here:

the future of Disneys media: Our Technologists are designing and building the products and platforms that will power our media advertising and distribution businesses for years to come.

Scale & Impact: More than ever Disneys technology and products serve as a signature doorway for fans connections with the companys brands and stories. Disney. Hulu. ESPN. ABC. ABC Newsand many more. These products and brands and the unmatched stories storytellers and events they carry matter to millions of people globally.

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

The Work:

We build and operate Disneys end-to-end media platform - acquisition processing metadata and delivery readiness. When someone hits play on Disney Hulu or ESPN our systems make it happen. Fast reliable at scale.

This isnt a greenfield project where youll spend months in planning meetings. We have real traffic real constraints and real problems to solve. Youll ship code that matters.

What Youll Actually Do:

• Design and build backend services that process and serve media at scale

• Write code review code debug production issuesthe usual engineering loop

• Work on systems handling video pipelines across multiple streaming platforms

• Collaborate with other teams when our work intersects (it often does)

• Help teammates growshare knowledge give honest feedback be someone others can learn from.

What Were Looking For:

• 5 years of backend engineering experience building production systems

• Strong JVM fundamentals we recently moved to JDK 25 (Java or Scala ideally both)

• Real experience with distributed systemsnot just I read about it

• Solid understanding of AWS services (DynamoDB SNS/SQS S3) PostgreSQL

• Proficiency with AI-assisted development tools (Cursor Claude Kiro or similar)we use them every day and expect engineers to leverage AI to move faster

• You can debug across service boundaries and actually enjoy figuring out why something broke

• You communicate clearlyin code in docs in conversation

Good to have:

• Experience with Kafka or similar event streaming platforms

• Background in media/video processing pipelines

• Hands-on Kubernetes experience (deploying scaling debugging workloads)

• Familiarity with observability tooling (distributed tracing metrics logging)

• Youve operated what youve built and care about how it runs in production

What Were Not Looking For:

• Engineers who need detailed specs for every task

• People who throw code over the wall and hope someone else deals with production

• Anyone who thinks thats not my job when somethings broken

Why This Might Be Interesting:

Youd be working on infrastructure that powers some of the biggest streaming platforms in the world. The scale is real. The problems are interesting. And youd be joining a team that actually ships.

Our new NYC office is pretty great too.

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If this sounds like your kind of work lets talk.

The hiring range for this position in New York is $145400 to $195000 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidates 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.

Job Posting Segment:

PE - Media Engineering

Job Posting Primary Business:

PE - Media Platform - Media Processing & Metadata Platform

Primary Job Posting Category:

Product Software Engineering

Employment Type:

Full time

Primary City State Region Postal Code:

New York NY USA

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