Product Software Engineer

Product Software Engineer I

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 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.

Knowledge Management is a tightly-knit team working within the Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology's (DEEPT) Data department. We focus on ingesting, managing and serving knowledge to various products as part of adding intelligence to various products. Our knowledge management platform serves data to agentic systems that allows them to ingest knowledge and surface it as intelligence.

As the business place moves toward more data-driven decision making, the ability to access data easily becomes very important. In turn, we work closely with Data Science, Marketing, and Personalization teams to create one-of-a-kind applications that enable the Disney Company to reach new heights of customer outreach and conversion. While we use known technologies to speed our development process, we also contribute to and push enterprise design and productivity through our innovative partnerships.

Using your skills and experience in big data application development, you will join a fun team of technically capable individuals that pride themselves on delivering the highest quality product. Most of our applications are written in Databricks and snowflake with python as fundamental programming language, but we can cover many languages and frameworks with our breadth of experience. In this role, you will focus on building a knowledge management platform with a focus on metadata management of assets and people analytics.

The work is fun and challenging, and we are often asked to break new ground in terms of user experience and application functionality.

Join our small-but-mighty team and be a part of the magic!

Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:

• Data Platform tooling and application development using Python, airflow, databricks, Snowflake tech stack - Creation, maintenance, and support of a Near-Real-Time pipelines from API-layer outward
• Planning discussions, team interactions, creating feature proposals
• Broader platform team discussions and interactions

Required Education, Experience/Skills/Training:

As a member of our team, you'll have the opportunity to contribute to the development and evolution of a large-scale data platform that supports teams across Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology. You'll work alongside experienced engineers, learn from real-world projects, and help build solutions that drive meaningful impact.

In this role, you will:

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