About this role
Job Posting Title: Product Software Engineer I Req ID: 10152065 Job Description:
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 Product Software Engineer, 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. You’ll 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 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.
Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:
● Design, build, and support scalable microservices. ● 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. ● Support teammates through code reviews, design reviews, and documentation. ● Improve system observability by implementing metrics, monitoring, and alerting solutions. ● Participate in on-call rotations as part of our commitment to operational excellence. ● Understanding and using automated tools (AI) while adhering to company policy.
Basic Qualifications
● 1+ 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.
Preferred Qualifications:
● Experience in ad tech. ● Experience with programmatic advertising or real-time bidding platforms.
Experience with:
● 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.
Required Education
● BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
Job Posting Segment: Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology Job Posting Primary Business: Ad Platforms Primary Job Posting Category: Product Software Engineering Employment Type: Full time Primary City, State, Region, Postal Code: Bangalore, India Alternate City, State, Region, Postal Code:
Date Posted: 2026-06-17