Sr Product Software Engineer I

Overview

As a Sr Software Engineer, you will design and build systems powering Disney's global advertising platforms. This hands-on distributed systems role involves developing high-scale backend and frontend services, improving performance and reliability, contributing to architecture, and building platforms used across multiple Disney products.

What you'll do

• Design and implement scalable backend services powering Disney's advertising platforms.
• Develop and maintain modern web applications for advertisers and internal teams.
• 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 and production support.
• Follow industrial best practices for service operations regarding CI/CD, monitoring, and investigation of incidents.
• Perform code reviews for members of the team.
• Contribute high-quality code while guiding architectural decisions across teams.
• Influence engineering direction through technical judgment.
• Mentor other engineers through design reviews and technical coaching.
• Lead complex initiatives that scale AI-enabled products and shared capabilities.
• Modernize cloud-native systems and advance AI orchestration and reliability practices.
• Ensure AI workloads are scalable, observable, and production ready.
• Champion responsible and effective use of artificial intelligence to improve system quality, operational resilience, and developer productivity.
• Define and monitor technical and operational metrics.
• Identify opportunities for system optimization and improvement.
• Design systems that support large-scale traffic, strict reliability requirements, and evolving product needs with engineers across the US and India.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ 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, Javascript, python, etc.
• Experience with modern web frameworks like React, Angular, Vue, etc.
• 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.

Nice to have

• Experience building or operating large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience with Spring Boot or similar backend frameworks.
• Experience with ReactJS or similar backend frameworks.
• 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.

Details

• Location: Bangalore, India.
• Employment type: Full time.
• Participate in on-call rotation and production support.
• Collaborate with engineers across the US and India.