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Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology
Senior Product Software Engineer - Linear Advertising Platform
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What they do
A Platform Engineer is responsible for the development of platforms that support the needs and use cases of different engineering teams across the organization. Creates reusable tools and workflows to streamline operational needs and facilitate automation tasks, supporting scalability of DevOps practices.
$140,770 / year median in Connecticut
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.
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 theRole:
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 #disneytech 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.
Benefits
- Dental Insurance