Product Development Engineer II(Evergreen)

Job ID 10146966 Location Bengaluru, India Business Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology Date posted Mar. 27, 2026

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Job Summary:

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 Platform – Product Development Engineering

Ad Platform builds Disney’s industry-leading advertising technology, supporting sports, news, and entertainment content across all major media platforms. Our systems power high-scale, high-throughput, and revenue-critical workloads that operate on a massive enterprise scale.

We are looking for Product Development Engineers to drive the technical evolution of advertising systems in Bengaluru. These roles offer deep architectural ownership, global visibility, and the opportunity to influence mission-critical systems that serve millions of users worldwide.

This is a hands-on technical role for engineers who thrive on solving complex distributed systems challenges and shaping long-term architecture. You will stay close to design and implementation, contributing high-quality code while guiding architectural decisions across teams. You’ll influence engineering direction through strong technical judgment, mentor other engineers through design reviews and technical coaching, and lead complex initiatives that scale AI-enabled products and shared capabilities.

You will play a key role in modernizing cloud-native systems, advancing AI orchestration and reliability practices, and ensuring AI workloads are scalable, observable, and production-ready. You’ll also champion responsible and effective use of artificial intelligence to improve system quality, operational resilience, and developer productivity.

Role Summary

As a Product Development Engineer II, you will design and build systems that power Disney’s global advertising platforms.

This is a hands-on distributed systems role where you will develop high-scale systems, improve system performance and reliability, contribute to architectural decisions across services, and build platforms used across multiple Disney products.

You will work closely with engineers across the US and India to design systems that support large-scale traffic, strict reliability requirements, and evolving product needs. Strong candidates enjoy solving problems in distributed service architecture, high-throughput data pipelines, fault tolerance, resiliency, and system observability.

In this highly hands-on role, you’ll bring:

Strong collaboration and communication skills across teams and systems
Ownership mindset for services and projects delivered by the team
Curiosity and willingness to learn in a fast-paced environment
Ability to define and monitor technical and operational metrics
Attention to opportunities for system optimization and improvement
Positive and pragmatic approach to problem solving

What You’ll Do

Design and implement scalable systems powering Disney’s advertising platforms
Actively participate in daily stand-ups and other scrum ceremonies.
Collaborate with team members to design new solutions and drive alignment across partner teams.
Participate in the breakdown and estimation of tasks.
Communicate with team members on progress.
Write code to implement new features or optimize existing services.
Ensure code quality through testing, CI/CD pipelines, and code reviews
Participate in on-call rotation to own real-world incidents with sharp troubleshooting skills and ship fixes to products humming.
Follow industrial best practices for service operations regarding CI/CD, monitoring, and investigation of incidents. Perform code reviews for members of the team.

What makes this role unique

Global impact from India: You’ll be part of Disney India innovation hub and work with talented builders creating impact on customers across geography. You will work on platforms that power global products like Disney+, Hulu, ESPN, and ABC—used by millions of people worldwide.
Strong ownership: Disney India is a core engineering hub. Ad Platform engineers have complete ownership and autonomy of architecture, delivery, and production rollout.
Leadership development: Opportunity to work with senior engineers and managers, shaping the future of Disney’s engineering leadership in India.
Work-life harmony: Disney India values work-life harmony. We provide flexibility as part of work culture, including flexible workdays and hours.

Basic Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
2+ years of professional software engineering experience building scalable distributed systems.
Demonstrated analytical/problem-solving skills
Strong hands-on proficiency in one of the coding languages – Java / C# / Python / Javascript
Experience with relational database such as MySQL or Postgres
Experience designing API-driven architectures and integrating model-serving or external services across cloud environments.
Strong engineering fundamentals including testing, CI/CD, and maintainable code practices.
Great communication, collaboration skills, and a strong teamwork ethic with both technical and non-technical audiences

Preferred Qualifications

Experience building or operating large-scale distributed systems
Experience with Spring Boot or similar frameworks
Experience with NoSQL databases (Mongo / Raven, Cassandra, ElasticSearch etc.)
Experience with streaming or event-driven systems (Kafka, Kinesis, etc.)
Familiarity with containerized infrastructure (Docker, Kubernetes)
Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform
Exposure to high-throughput or low-latency systems

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About Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology:

At Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology, we’re blending imagination and innovation to reimagine the ways people experience and engage with the world’s most beloved stories and products. Our work is wide-ranging and deeply sophisticated. We create amazing experiences, transform the future of media, and build products and platforms that enable the connection between people everywhere and the stories and sports they love.

Disney’s ability to marry world-class technology with one-of-a-kind creativity makes us unique. It is at the heart of our past, present, and future. We are Storytellers and Innovators. Creators and Builders. Entertainers and Engineers.

About The Walt Disney Company:

The Walt Disney Company, together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading diversified international family entertainment and media enterprise that includes three core business segments: Disney Entertainment, ESPN, and Disney Experiences. From humble beginnings as a cartoon studio in the 1920s to its preeminent name in the entertainment industry today, Disney proudly continues its legacy of creating world-class stories and experiences for every member of the family. Disney’s stories, characters and experiences reach consumers and guests from every corner of the globe. With operations in more than 40 countries, our employees and cast members work together to create entertainment experiences that are both universally and locally cherished.

This position is with Disney (India) Private Limited, which is part of a business we call Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology.

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