Product Software Engineering Mgr

Overview

Lead Disney’s Ad Platform engineering teams in Bengaluru, building AI-driven advertising platforms that support high-scale, high-throughput, revenue-critical workloads. This hands-on technical leadership role combines architecture, design, code, engineering management, platform modernization, and development of engineering leadership.

What you'll do

• Hire, lead, and grow high-performing engineering teams in Bengaluru, including managers.
• Mentor engineers and managers and assist with career development inside and outside your team.
• Act as a hands-on technical leader influencing architecture, design, and code quality on complex, high-impact projects.
• Drive AI-driven and data-intensive platform development and advocate for responsible use of tools to improve software quality and developer productivity.
• Lead cloud modernization and platform evolution initiatives while maintaining business continuity.
• Partner with engineering, data, and operations leaders worldwide across time zones to align requirements and priorities.
• Ensure infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, DBA, and Data Operations needs are met for changes, releases, and incident response.
• Own delivery of mission-critical, revenue-generating systems that improve software quality and customer experience.
• Establish best practices in cloud-native architecture, CI/CD, DevOps, security, and reliability.
• Ensure environments and software deployments are proactively patched, vulnerabilities are remediated, and databases are configured and backed up to prevent data loss.
• Implement and enforce security, compliance, and disaster-recovery practices, including IAM, encryption, logging, vulnerability management, code analysis, compliance automation, and DR failover testing.
• Monitor and improve system performance, availability, and cost efficiency for high-scale, high-pressure platforms.

What you'll need

• Minimum of 8 years of leadership experience managing high-performing technical teams.
• Ability to operate and make decisions in ambiguous, fast-paced environments with evolving business and technical priorities.
• Strong communication and partnership skills, including the ability to articulate vision, strategy, and technical concepts across engineering, data, and operations leaders.
• Track record of recruiting, mentoring, and developing infrastructure and DevOps teams at global scale.
• Experience leading large-scale cloud infrastructure and platform engineering initiatives, including mission-critical, revenue-generating systems.
• Proficiency in Agile, CI/CD, and continuous improvement practices across infrastructure, DevOps, and operations teams.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.

Nice to have

• Leadership experience in Ad Tech and Big Data platforms, with a strong understanding of ad serving, data pipelines, and distributed system operations.
• Ability to lead complex cloud and data platform transformations, including large-scale service migrations and modernization of DevOps workflows.
• Experience defining and delivering long-term infrastructure and platform roadmaps aligned with business strategy.
• Success in cross-functional leadership within large, global, or matrixed organizations.
• Curiosity and alignment with Disney’s mission, with a passion for innovative, resilient, and developer-friendly platforms.
• Experience with modern software stacks including Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, Python, and Terraform, with GenAI experience preferred for forward-looking platform enablement.
• Deep expertise in cloud-native platforms across AWS and Azure, including Kubernetes AKS and EKS, and cloud storage solutions such as S3 and Azure Storage.
• Strong data architecture and modeling skills with relational and NoSQL databases such as Aurora, Oracle, SQL Server, Redis, DynamoDB, ElasticSearch, and RavenDB.
• Hands-on experience with Spark, Flink, Airflow, Databricks, and Kafka for large-scale, high-throughput pipeline operations.
• Proficiency in Datadog, Splunk, and Grafana for observability and monitoring, with a track record of improving platform reliability, performance, and incident response.
• Strong foundation in object-oriented programming, API-driven architectures, and dependency injection.
• Success guiding platform-wide modernization, driving adoption of new technologies, and scaling infrastructure for mission-critical systems.
• Deep understanding of data governance, access controls, encryption, vulnerability management, and compliance best practices across multi-cloud environments.
• Skill in unit testing and CI/CD using frameworks such as JUnit and NUnit.

Details

• Location: Bangalore, India.
• Employment type: Full time.
• Work includes collaboration across time zones.
• Flexible workdays and hours are provided as part of the work culture.