Job Posting Title Senior Manager Product Development Engineering Req ID 10141583 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 Ad Platform Role Description Ad Platform builds Disney s industry-leading advertising technology supporting sports news and entertainment content across all major media platforms Our systems handle high-scale high-throughput revenue-critical workloads We are looking for Managers and Sr Managers in Software Engineering to lead The Walt Disney Company s Ad Platform engineering teams in Bengaluru These roles offer ownership technical depth and global visibility working on AI-driven advertising platforms that operate at massive enterprise scale This is a hands-on technical leadership position ideal for leaders who enjoy staying close to architecture design and code while managing engineers and at times managers and building strong engineering organizations You ll draw from deep and broad technical expertise to mentor engineers complete hands-on technical work and provide leadership on complex technical issues You will play a key role in scaling platforms modernizing cloud and data systems and growing the next generation of engineering leadership in India You ll be a strong advocate of responsible usage of artificial intelligence to improve software quality and developer productivity What You ll Do Hire and the lead team Hire lead and grow high-performing engineering teams in Bengaluru including managers Actively participate in mentoring talented engineers and managers Assist in career development of members in and outside your team Lead complex high-impact projects Act as a hands-on technical leader influencing architecture design and code quality Improve productivity Drive AI-driven and data-intensive platform development Be a strong advocate of responsible usage of tools to improve quality and developer productivity Embrace next-gen technology Lead cloud modernization and platform evolution initiatives while respecting and maintaining business continuity Global collaboration alignment Serve as technical leader and partner with leaders across engineering data and operations worldwide across time-zones to align on requirements and priorities ensuring infrastructure CI CD observability DBA and Data Operations needs are consistently met for changes releases and incident response Innovate for customers Own delivery of mission-critical revenue-generating systems which improve quality of software and enhance customer experience Technical and operational excellence Establish best practices in cloud-native architecture CI CD DevOps security and reliability Ensure environments and software deployments proactively patched vulnerabilities remediated and databases configured and backed up to prevent data loss Security compliance resilience Implement and enforce best practices for security compliance and disaster recovery including IAM encryption logging vulnerability management code analysis compliance automation and DR failover testing Reliability scalability Continuously monitor and improve system performance availability and cost efficiency ensuring mission-critical revenue-generating platforms are stable under high-scale high-pressure conditions What makes this role unique Global impact from India You ll be part of Disney India innovation hub and work with talented builders creating impact on customers across geography You will lead platforms that power global products like Disney Hulu ESPN and ABC used by millions of people worldwide Strong ownership Disney India is a core engineering hub Ad Platform leaders have complete ownership and autonomy of architecture delivery and people development Leadership development Build and mentor senior engineers and managers shaping the future of Disney s engineering leadership in India Work-life harmony Disney India values work-life harmony We provide flexibility as part of work culture including flexible workdays and hours Basic Qualifications Minimum of 8 years of leadership experience managing high-performing technical teams Some roles require direct management of managers leading globally distributed squads of 6-7 engineers Proven ability to operate and make decisions in ambiguous fast-paced environments with evolving business and technical priorities Strong communication and partnership skills able to articulate vision strategy and technical concepts across engineering data and operations leaders Demonstrated track record of recruiting mentoring and developing infrastructure and DevOps teams at global scale Experience leading large-scale cloud infrastructure and platform engineering initiatives including mission-critical revenue-generating systems Proficiency in applying Agile CI CD and continuous improvement practices across infrastructure DevOps and operations teams Preferred Qualifications Leadership experience in Ad Tech and Big Data platforms with a strong understanding of ad serving data pipelines and distributed system operations Proven ability to lead complex cloud and data platform transformations including large-scale service migrations and modernization of DevOps workflows Experience defining and delivering long-term infrastructure and platform roadmaps aligned with business strategy Demonstrated success in cross-functional leadership within large global or matrixed organizations Strong curiosity and alignment with Disney s mission with a passion for delivering innovative resilient and developer-friendly platforms Experience with Modern software stacks including Java Spring Boot REST APIs Python and Terraform with GenAI experience preferred for forward-looking platform enablement Deep expertise in cloud-native platforms across AWS and Azure including Kubernetes AKS and EKS as well as cloud storage solutions such as S3 and Azure Storage Solid data architecture and modeling skills with proficiency in relational and NoSQL databases such as Aurora Oracle SQL Server Redis DynamoDB ElasticSearch and RavenDB Hands-on experience with big data and streaming technologies including Spark Flink Airflow Databricks and Kafka for large-scale high-throughput pipeline operations Proficiency in observability and monitoring using Datadog Splunk and Grafana with a track record of improving platform reliability performance and incident response Strong foundation in object-oriented programming API-driven architectures and dependency injection to support scalable maintainable and secure codebases Demonstrated success guiding platform-wide modernization driving adoption of new technologies and scaling infrastructure to support mission-critical systems Deep understanding of data governance access controls encryption vulnerability management and compliance best practices across multi-cloud environments Skilled in unit testing and CI CD practices using frameworks such as JUnit and NUnit and in applying continuous integration and delivery strategies across infrastructure and software engineering teams Required Education Bachelor s degree in computer science Information Systems Engineering or a related field or equivalent work experience Job Posting Segment Product Engineering Job Posting Primary Business PE - India Product Technology Primary Job Posting Category Product Development Engineering Employment Type Full time Primary City State Region Postal Code Bangalore India Alternate City State Region Postal Code Date Posted 2026-01-28

📌 Senior / Manager, Product Development Engineering (Bengaluru)
🏢 The Walt Disney
📍 Bengaluru