Senior Product Software Engineer – Ad Decisioning Engineering

The Walt Disney Company

Senior Software Engineer developing scalable solutions within Disney's media technology sector. Involvement in enhancing advertising platforms and collaborating across teams to optimize delivery and effectiveness.

Posted 6/3/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California, Washington • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $141,900 - $208,400 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

JavaMicroservices

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Designing, implementing, and testing solutions to various engineering problems in a high-throughput, low-latency microservices environment.
Enhancing systems’ observability with proper metrics, monitors, and alerts.
Reading and understanding product user stories, and then translating them into actionable tasks, including identifying where AI/ML-driven solutions may be applicable.
Taking ownership of one or more of the team's domain areas.
Understanding and using automated tools (AI) while adhering to company policy.
Available for On-Call rotations based on the team’s escalation policy and support schedule.
Design and integrate AI/ML-supported functionality when appropriate, such as LLM-assisted processing or model-driven decisioning.
Develop and refine prompts and evaluation of workflows when working with LLM-based APIs.
Adding evaluation/observability for LLM workloads (telemetry, traces, guardrails).
Building agentic workflows (multi-step, tool-using agents) and supporting multi-agent orchestration patterns (MCP, agent-to-agent).
Collaborate with data science and ML platform teams to operationalize models and embed ML-driven features.

Requirements

What you’ll need

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 with both technical and non-technical audiences.
Familiarity with core AI/ML concepts (e.g., embeddings, vector similarity, prompt patterns, model evaluation) or willingness to rapidly learn.
Familiarity with LLM orchestration frameworks (LangChain, LangGraph).

Benefits

Comp & perks

A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.

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Hard Skills & Tools

JavaAI/MLmicroservicesobservabilityLLM-based APIsmodel evaluationembeddingsvector similarityprompt patternsmulti-agent orchestration

Soft Skills

analytical skillsproblem-solving skillscommunication skillscollaboration skillsteamwork ethic

Certifications

BS in Computer ScienceMS in Computer ScienceBS in EngineeringMS in Engineering