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About the Role

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is seeking engineers, product developers, designers, technologists, and data scientists to build and advance the technological backbone for Disney’s media business globally. The team combines technology with creativity to build world-class products, enhance storytelling, and drive velocity, innovation, and scalability for our businesses. We are looking for individuals who are passionate about building the future of Disney’s media, reaching and impacting millions of people globally, and driving innovation in the industry.

Responsibilities

Designing, implementing, and testing solutions in a high-throughput, low-latency microservices environment.
Enhancing systems’ observability with metrics, monitors, and alerts.
Translating product user stories into actionable tasks, identifying potential AI/ML solutions.
Taking ownership of team domain areas.
Using automated tools (AI) while adhering to company policy.
Participating in On-Call rotations.
Designing and integrating AI/ML-supported functionality, such as LLM-assisted processing.
Developing and evaluating prompts and workflows for LLM-based APIs.
Adding evaluation and observability for LLM workloads.
Building agentic workflows and supporting multi-agent orchestration patterns.
Collaborating with data science and ML platform teams to operationalize models and embed ML-driven features.

Requirements

BS or MS in Computer Science / Engineering or relevant work experience.
5+ years of software engineering experience.
Proficiency with Java.
Demonstrable analytical / problem-solving skills.
Great communication, collaboration skills, and a strong teamwork ethic.
Familiarity with core AI/ML concepts or willingness to learn.
Familiarity with LLM orchestration frameworks.
Awareness of guardrails, safety, eval, and cost-aware usage.

Skills

Java
AI/ML concepts
LLM orchestration frameworks
SpringBoot
Spring projects
Non-relational database technologies
Caching datastores
Data Streaming Mechanisms
AWS
Terraform
Docker
Kubernetes
Ad Tech industry
External LLM APIs
Multi-agent orchestration
Prompt / tool pattern design
Function calling
Streaming
Context management

Location

San Francisco, CA, USA
USA - CA - 2500 Broadway Street
USA - WA - 925 4th Ave
Los Angeles, California
Seattle, WA
San Francisco, CA

Work Type

Full time
Onsite (four days a week)

Experience Level

5+ years of software engineering experience

Education Level

BS or MS in Computer Science / Engineering or relevant work experience

Salary/Compensations

Los Angeles, California: $141,900 to $190,300 per year
Seattle, WA: $148,700 to $199,400 per year
San Francisco, CA: $155,400 to $208,400 per year

Benefits

A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided
Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits

About the Company

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.
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.
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.
The Ad Serving Engineering organization within Disney Entertainment and the ESPN organization is fully responsible for building, enhancing, and maintaining the high-performance, distributed, microservice-based Digital Advertising Platform.
The platform is charged with the qualification, delivery, and tracking of Digital Advertising campaigns across all of Disney online properties, including Hulu, Disney+, and ESPN+.
Ad Serving teams collaborate in the development of 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, correct pacing, targeting, selection of ads, and third-party systems.