Sr Product Software Engineer

Senior Development EngineerDisney 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.We are seeking a Senior Development Engineer with strong backend engineering experience, solid distributed systems knowledge, and a passion for building reliable, scalable platforms. If you enjoy solving complex technical problems, working with large-scale data systems, and improving user experiences through robust services, this is a great opportunity for you.Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:Design, build, and maintain business-critical backend services using Java and Scala.Develop scalable and reliable systems that support User Enablement capabilities.Build, operate, and optimize offline ETL pipelines that process massive data volumes.Maintain and deploy machine learning models associated with critical services.Improve service performance, scalability, stability, and operational excellence.Diagnose, debug, and resolve production issues across distributed backend systems.Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product, data, platform, and infrastructure teams.Develop and maintain automation test frameworks, test tools, and software quality practices.Contribute to architecture discussions and help evolve services to support long-term business growth.Required Education, Experience/Skills/Training:BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field5+ years of software development experience using Java, Scala, or similar backend languages.Strong experience building large-scale, production-level backend services.Solid understanding of distributed systems, data processing, service reliability, and performance optimization.Experience with offline ETL pipelines and large-scale data processing.Comfort maintaining and deploying machine learning models associated with critical services.Strong database design, query optimization, and data maintenance experience.Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work independently in complex technical areas.Excellent communication and collaboration skills.Experience with automation testing, test frameworks, and software quality practices.Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic engineering environment.Preferred Qualifications:MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related fieldExperience with Spark, Flink, Kafka, Airflow, Hadoop, or similar large-scale data technologies.Experience operating high-availability backend services in cloud or containerized environments.Experience with observability tools, alerting, metrics, logging, and production monitoring.Experience with user lifecycle, entitlement, profile, notification, or enablement platforms.