Job Details

Senior Software Engineer, Ad Decisioning

Job ID: 10134964

Location: Glendale, CA / Santa Monica, CA / San Francisco, CA

Business: Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology

Date posted: Oct. 30, 2025

Job Summary

Technology is at the heart of Disney's past, present, and future. Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is a global organization of engineers, product developers, designers, technologists, data scientists, and more – all working to build and advance the technological backbone for Disney's media business globally.

The team marries technology with creativity to build world‑class products, enhance storytelling, and drive velocity, innovation, and scalability for our businesses. We are storytellers and innovators, creators and builders, entertainers and engineers. We work with every part of The Walt Disney Company's media portfolio to advance the technological foundation and consumer media touch points serving millions of people worldwide.

Why Work With Us

• Building the future of Disney's media: Our technologists are designing and building the products and platforms that will power our media, advertising, and distribution businesses for years to come.
• Reach, Scale & Impact: Disney's technology and products serve as a signature doorway for fans' connections with the company's brands and stories. Disney+, Hulu, ESPN, ABC, ABC News…these products and brands matter to millions worldwide.
• Innovation: We develop and implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms, and solve complex and distinctive technical problems.

Ad Platforms is responsible for Disney's industry‑leading ad technology and products – driving advertising performance, innovation, and value in Disney's sports, news, and entertainment content, across all media platforms.

Role Overview

As part of the Decisioning Fleet, you will help build UI tools that analyze what ads are competing for slots for ad breaks across Hulu, Disney+, ESPN, and others. You will directly contribute to optimizing ad qualification and selection to make sure viewers always see the right ad at the right time.

Expectations for a P3 (Senior Software Engineer)

Apply your knowledge and skills to deliver scalable, performant, maintainable, and testable software. Daily, you should bring a willingness and desire to communicate and collaborate across teams and systems; a commitment to project ownership; a passion for mentoring and learning in a dynamic environment; an understanding of micro‑service encapsulation and loose coupling; the ability to define technical and operational metrics; and kindness and pragmatic optimism.

Responsibilities

• Designing, implementing, and testing full‑stack solutions to various engineering problems in a high‑throughput, low‑latency microservices environment.
• Enhancing systems' observability with proper metrics, monitors, and alerts.
• Reading and understanding product user stories, then translating them into actionable tasks for front‑end and back‑end components.
• Taking ownership of one or more of the team's domain areas.
• Understanding and using automated tools (AI) while adhering to company policy.
• Available for on‑call rotations based on the team's escalation policy and support schedule.

Basic Qualifications

• BS or MS in Computer Science / Engineering or relevant work experience.
• Experience with front‑end technologies and frameworks such as Node, React, NextJS, Express, TypeScript, Tailwind.
• 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• Proficiency with Java.
• Demonstrable analytical/problem‑solving skills.
• Great communication, collaboration skills, and a strong teamwork ethic with both technical and non‑technical audiences.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with:

• SpringBoot and related Spring projects.
• Non‑relational database technologies like DynamoDB.
• Caching datastores such as Redis, ValKey or MemCache.
• Data streaming mechanisms such as Apache Kafka and/or Kinesis.
• Cloud platforms such as AWS.
• Modern DevOps tools such as Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes.
• Domain knowledge in the Ad Tech industry.

Additional Information

• Engineers are expected to be in the office four days a week.
• This role is hiring in San Francisco, Santa Monica, Glendale, or Seattle.

Hiring range in Los Angeles: $138,900 to $86,200 per year, and San Francisco Bay Area: $152,100–$203,900. Base pay will consider internal equity and may vary by region, knowledge, skills, experience, and other factors. A bonus and/or long‑term incentive units may be provided along with full benefits.

About Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology

We blend imagination and innovation to reimagine how people experience and engage with the world's most beloved stories and products. Our work is wide‑ranging and sophisticated. We create amazing experiences, transform the future of media, and build products and platforms that enable the connection between people and the stories and sports they love.

About The Walt Disney Company

The Walt Disney Company, together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading diversified international family entertainment and media enterprise with three core business segments: Disney Entertainment, ESPN, and Disney Experiences. From humble beginnings as a cartoon studio in the 1920s to its preeminent name today, Disney continues its legacy of creating world‑class stories and experiences for every family member.

This position is with Disney Streaming Technology LLC, part of Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Disney Streaming Technology LLC is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, military or veteran status, medical condition, genetic information, disability, or any other basis prohibited by federal, state or local law.

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