Sr Product Software Engineer - Ad Decisioning Engineering

Senior Full Stack Engineer - Ad Decisioning

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.

The Ad Serving Engineering organization within Disney Entertainment and the ESPN organization is responsible for building, enhancing, and maintaining a high‑performance, distributed, micro‑service‑based Digital Advertising Platform. The platform is charged with the qualification, delivery, and tracking of digital advertising campaigns (Video on Demand, Live TV, and innovative interactive ads) across all of Disney’s online properties, including Hulu, Disney+, and ESPN+.

In addition, Ad serving teams collaborate on developing supporting components such as anti‑ad‑fatigue systems, impression‑counting pipelines, and ad‑experience flows. We also work on integrations with critical services responsible for entitlements, pacing, targeting, and third‑party systems.

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

• A willingness and desire to effectively communicate and collaborate across teams and systems.
• An understanding of the importance of project ownership.
• A passion for mentoring, learning, and adapting to a very dynamic and fast‑paced environment.
• 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 manage risk.
• Use AI tools responsibly to improve productivity while adhering to company policies.
• Kindness and pragmatic optimism.

• Design, implement, and test solutions for high‑throughput, low‑latency microservices.
• Enhance observability with metrics, monitoring, and alerting.
• Translate product requirements into actionable engineering tasks.
• Take ownership of one or more of the team’s domain areas.
• Integrate AI‑assisted development practices into daily workflows.
• Participate in on‑call rotations per team escalation policy.

• BS or MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or relevant work experience.
• 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• Proficiency with Java.
• Experience with React
  
  JS or similar frontend frameworks, with the ability to quickly pick up new technologies.
• Demonstrable analytical and problem‑solving skills.
• Great communication, collaboration skills, and strong teamwork ethic with both technical and non‑technical audiences.

• Experience with Spring Boot and related Spring projects.
• Modern…