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Product Software Engineering Architect

Job ID 10152082 Location Bengaluru, India Business Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology Date posted Nov. 04, 2026
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Job Summary:

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 Disney’s video-on-demand and live TV properties, including Hulu, Disney+, ESPN, and more.

Within Ad Platform Engineering, the Programmatic teams build and maintain Disney’s programmatic advertising suite of products and services that comprise Disney's 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 Disney’s ad server in real time.

Job Summary:

As a Full-Stack Product Software Engineering Architect, you will be a hands-on technical leader, setting the standard for engineering excellence as you drive the architecture, design, and delivery of resilient, large-scale, distributed platforms. You’ll impact technical direction and architecture across the organization, mentor fellow engineers, and ensure our systems are robust, secure, and future-ready.

Daily, you should bring:

● Vision and passion for building, owning, and evolving mission-critical systems at scale.

● Deep expertise in full stack engineering, microservices, and modern cloud architectures.

● A growth mindset—committed to mentoring, continuous learning, and thriving in fast-paced, dynamic environments.

● Exceptional communication skills to collaborate across product, design, business, and engineering teams, and to represent engineering in strategic discussions.

● Ability to define and drive adoption of technical and operational metrics, ensuring system health and managing risk.

● Strategic thinking with a pragmatic approach to technical challenges, balancing innovation with practical execution.

Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:

● Architect, design, implement, and support secure, highly scalable, distributed, and decoupled backend and frontend systems for programmatic advertising.

● Set technical direction and ensure alignment with best practices in code quality, maintainability, observability, and performance.

● Establish, champion, and evolve standards for system design, testing, monitoring, and deploying low-latency microservices.

● Act as a technical mentor, sharing knowledge, conducting code and design reviews, and helping engineers grow.

● Collaborate closely with cross-functional partners, translating business and product requirements into technical roadmaps and robust solutions.

● Foster a culture of continuous improvement, identifying optimizations and enhancements to systems and processes.

● Support platform reliability by enhancing observability, promoting automated alerting, and participating in on-call rotations as needed.

● Ensure compliance with Disney's best practices and security policies, including use of AI and automation technologies.

● Serve as a domain authority and point of contact for technical stakeholders inside and outside engineering.

Required Education, Experience/Skills/Training:

● 10+ years of software engineering experience with a leadership track record.

● Advanced proficiency in Java and Typescript.

● Expertise in JavaScript libraries and frameworks including React and Node.js.

● In-depth experience building and scaling RESTful APIs and microservice architectures (preferably with Spring Boot).

● Strong hands-on knowledge of relational databases (MySQL, Postgres, etc.), including schema and query design, as well as NoSQL (e.g., DynamoDB) database technologies.

● Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a track record of project ownership, technical leadership, and organization-wide influence.

● Strong foundation in computer science principles, including data structures, algorithms, and system design.

● Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to engage both technical and non-technical audiences.

● Proven ability to influence engineering strategy and technical direction beyond the immediate team.

● Experience promoting best practices for security, code quality, and operational excellence in a large-scale, distributed environment.

Preferred Qualifications

● Experience in ad tech.

● Experience with programmatic advertising or real-time bidding platforms.

Experience with:

● Spring Boot and related Spring projects.

● Relational databases, such as MySQL or Postgres

● Non-relational database technologies like DynamoDB.

● JavaScript libraries and frameworks such as React, node.js

● Caching datastores such as Redis, ValKey, or MemCache.

● Data Streaming Mechanisms such as Apache Kafka and/or AWS Kinesis.

● Cloud platforms such as AWS.

● Modern DevOps tools such as Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes.

Required Education

● BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.





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