Job Posting Title

Staff Product Software Engineer

Req ID

10151961

Department/Group Overview:

Describe the department or group. This information will be used to help attract and engage candidates.

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology

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 around the world.

Here are a few reasons why we think you’d love working here:

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: More than ever, 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…and many more. These products and brands – and the unmatched stories, storytellers, and events they carry – matter to millions of people globally. Innovation: We develop and implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms, and solve complex and distinctive technical problems.

About The Organization

Product Engineering is a unified team responsible for the engineering of Disney Entertainment & ESPN digital and streaming products and platforms. This includes product engineering, media engineering, quality assurance, engineering behind personalization, commerce, lifecycle, and identity.

Job Summary:

Describe what the person will do in the role - how he/she will impact the organization.

Join us at Metadata Authority Engineering, a driving force within the Media Engineering organization, where we fuel the magic of Disney Entertainment and ESPN Technology. Our mission is to transform how content metadata is created and enriched—leveraging Generative AI and multimodal models to represent every video, artwork, and text asset with precision, depth, and context. This enriched metadata powers discovery, personalization, compliance, and monetization across Disney+, Hulu, ESPN, and beyond.

Imagine leading the technical vision for AI-driven metadata systems that understand and describe the world’s most iconic stories in real time—surfacing the perfect game-winning moment in sports, automatically generating captions for accessibility, or powering next-level search and recommendations. We’re not just keeping pace with the streaming revolution—we’re shaping it.

We’re looking for a dedicated Lead Software Engineer to guide the design, architecture, and delivery of high-scale AI-powered metadata services. You will drive system evolution, mentor engineers, and work closely with ML, data, and product partners to deliver intelligent, low-latency solutions for live and on-demand content.

Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:

- Lead architecture and system design for scalable, low-latency Gen AI metadata extraction, enrichment, and publishing services.
- Collaborate with ML engineers and data scientists to integrate multimodal AI (video, image, text) into production APIs and content workflows.
- Design and implement services that consume curated data from the organization’s medallion-architecture data platform and return validated metadata to Source of Truth systems.
- Translate ambiguous requirements into clear technical plans, articulating trade-offs and aligning stakeholders across engineering, product, and operations.
- Raise the engineering quality bar by driving best practices in code quality, design patterns, testing, and operational excellence.
- Mentor and grow engineers on the team, fostering technical leadership and a culture of innovation.




- Drive automation, observability, and monitoring for AI-powered metadata pipelines.
- Participate in on-call rotations to troubleshoot and resolve production issues, ensuring system reliability.
- Act as a technical advocate in cross-team discussions to align AI strategy with platform and business needs.

Required Education, Experience/Skills/Training: Minimum and Preferred. Inclusive of Licenses/Certs (include functional experience as well as behavioral attributes and/or leadership capabilities)

- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
- 7+ years of software development experience with strong Java (Spring Boot) and/or Python skills.
- Proven experience architecting and deploying AI/ML-powered services at scale.
- Deep knowledge of computer science fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, distributed systems).
- Expertise with AWS services (SageMaker, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS) and messaging technologies (Kafka, Kinesis).
- Strong experience with both relational (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (DynamoDB, ElastiCache) databases.
- Demonstrated ability to lead teams technically, mentor engineers, and deliver complex projects end-to-end.

Nice To Haves

- Experience with vision-language models (e.g., CLIP, BLIP-2), LLMs, or speech-to-text systems.
- Knowledge of metadata classification, entity resolution, or knowledge graph enrichment.
- Familiarity with Elasticsearch or other search/indexing platforms.
- Background in sports, entertainment, or media streaming ecosystems.

Required Education & Experience

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience.
- Minimum of 7 years related work experience.

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology 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 around the world.

Here are a few reasons why we think you’d love working here:

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: More than ever, 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…and many more. These products and brands – and the unmatched stories, storytellers, and events they carry – matter to millions of people globally. Innovation: We develop and implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms, and solve complex and distinctive technical problems.

About The Organization

Product Engineering is a unified team responsible for the engineering of Disney Entertainment & ESPN digital and streaming products and platforms. This includes product engineering, media engineering, quality assurance, engineering behind personalization, commerce, lifecycle, and identity.

Job Summary:

Describe what the person will do in the role - how he/she will impact the organization.

Join us at Metadata Authority Engineering, a driving force within the Media Engineering organization,



where we fuel the magic of Disney Entertainment and ESPN Technology. Our mission is to transform how content metadata is created and enriched—leveraging Generative AI and multimodal models to represent every video, artwork, and text asset with precision, depth, and context. This enriched metadata powers discovery, personalization, compliance, and monetization across Disney+, Hulu, ESPN, and beyond.

Imagine leading the technical vision for AI-driven metadata systems that understand and describe the world’s most iconic stories in real time—surfacing the perfect game-winning moment in sports, automatically generating captions for accessibility, or powering next-level search and recommendations. We’re not just keeping pace with the streaming revolution—we’re shaping it.

We’re looking for a dedicated Lead Software Engineer to guide the design, architecture, and delivery of high-scale AI-powered metadata services. You will drive system evolution, mentor engineers, and work closely with ML, data, and product partners to deliver intelligent, low-latency solutions for live and on-demand content.

Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:

Summarize job responsibilities, core deliverables and major duties. What is required for the position to exist?

-Focus on major areas of work, typically 20% or more of role

% of Time

- Lead architecture and system design for scalable, low-latency Gen AI metadata extraction, enrichment, and publishing services.
- Collaborate with ML engineers and data scientists to integrate multimodal AI (video, image, text) into production APIs and content workflows.
- Design and implement services that consume curated data from the organization’s medallion-architecture data platform and return validated metadata to Source of Truth systems.
- Translate ambiguous requirements into clear technical plans, articulating trade-offs and aligning stakeholders across engineering, product, and operations.
- Raise the engineering quality bar by driving best practices in code quality, design patterns, testing, and operational excellence.
- Mentor and grow engineers on the team, fostering technical leadership and a culture of innovation.
- Drive automation, observability, and monitoring for AI-powered metadata pipelines.
- Participate in on-call rotations to troubleshoot and resolve production issues, ensuring system reliability.
- Act as a technical advocate in cross-team discussions to align AI strategy with platform and business needs.

Required Education, Experience/Skills/Training: Minimum and Preferred. Inclusive of Licenses/Certs (include functional experience as well as behavioral attributes and/or leadership capabilities)

- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
- 7+ years of software development experience with solid Java (Spring Boot) and/or Python skills.
- Proven experience architecting and deploying AI/ML-powered services at scale.
- Deep knowledge of computer science fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, distributed systems).
- Expertise with AWS services (SageMaker, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS) and messaging technologies (Kafka, Kinesis).
- Strong experience with both relational (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (DynamoDB, ElastiCache) databases.
- Demonstrated ability to lead teams technically, mentor engineers, and deliver complex projects end-to-end.

Nice To Haves

- Experience with vision-language models (e.g., CLIP, BLIP-2), LLMs, or speech-to-text systems.
- Knowledge of metadata classification, entity resolution, or knowledge graph enrichment.
- Familiarity with Elasticsearch or other search/indexing platforms.
- Background in sports, entertainment, or media streaming ecosystems.

Required Education & Experience

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience.
- Minimum of 7 years related work experience.

Job Posting Segment:

Product Engineering

Job Posting Primary Business

PE - India Product & Technology

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

2026-06-04

📌 Staff Product Software Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 5014 Disney Entertainment u0026 Sports
📍 Bengaluru