Sr Product Software Engineer II

Job Requirements

The Ad Platform Engineering organization within Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is responsible for building, enhancing, and operating a high-performance, distributed, microservice-based digital advertising platform. This platform powers billions of real-time ad decisions daily across Disneys video-on-demand and live TV properties, including Hulu, Disney+, ESPN, and more.

Within Ad Platform Engineering, the Programmatic teams build and maintain Disneys programmatic advertising suite of products and services that comprise Disneys Real-time Ad Exchange (DRAX). DRAX is an award-winning, proprietary supply-side platform (SSP) that enables programmatic deal configuration and integrates demand from multiple third-party sources into Disneys ad server in real time.

Job Summary

As a Senior Product Software Engineer II, you will collaborate with cross-functional partners and engineering teams on the design and implementation of innovative products and features, contributing to the evolution of user-centric advertising at scale. Youll exercise technical ownership, provide peer mentoring, and ensure our systems are robust, observable, and future ready.

On a Daily Basis You Should Bring

• A passion for building and owning mission-critical systems.
• A growth mindset, with a willingness to mentor and learn in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.
• A commitment and desire to effectively communicate and collaborate across teams and systems.
• 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.
• A pragmatic approach to solving engineering challenges at scale.
• Design, build, and support scalable distributed systems.
• Collaborate with product and engineering peers to deliver features that enhance user-centric advertising.
• Translate user stories into actionable engineering tasks with ownership from development through deployment.
• Mentor and support teammates through code reviews, documentation, and informal guidance (no direct reports).
• Improve system observability by implementing metrics, monitoring, and alerting solutions.
• Participate in on-call rotations as part of our commitment to operational excellence.
• Champion best practices in code quality, automated testing, and agile workflows.
• Understanding and using automated tools (AI) while adhering to company policy.

• 5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience.
• Proficiency with Java and related frameworks (Spring Boot, ORMs, etc..).
• Strong background in relational databases (MySQL, Postgres), including schema and query design.
• Experience working with RESTful APIs, microservices, and distributed systems.
• Strong foundation in computer science principles, including data structures and algorithms.
• Strong problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Experience in ad tech.
• Experience with programmatic advertising or real-time bidding platforms.

• Spring Boot and related Spring projects.
• Cloud platforms such as AWS.
• Modern DevOps tools such as Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes.
• Data Streaming Mechanisms such as Apache Kafka, AWS Kinesis, and/or SNS/SQS.

• BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
  Disclaimer
• 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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