Product Software Engineer II

The Walt Disney Company

Software Engineer enhancing Disney's streaming media and backend services. Focusing on high-quality content delivery and collaboration within the Media Security team.

Posted 6/12/2026full-timeSanta Monica • California, New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $117,500 - $165,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudDockerGrafanaJenkinsKafkaScalaSplunk

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Write code, complete programming tasks, write tests, perform testing, and debug code for backend services within a team building high-performance, scalable systems
Contribute to developing specifications for assigned components, projects, and fixes, and participate in architecture discussions and code reviews to uphold team quality standards
Support owned software throughout its lifecycle, performing technical maintenance, troubleshooting, and maintaining documentation
Participate in the on-call rotation, learning to support systems and services during production incidents
Collaborate with team members and relevant personnel across the organization to deliver features and resolve issues within the team's domain

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience
Minimum of 3 years related experience delivering backend applications in a production environment.
Familiarity with operating high-availability backend services and JVM services
Working knowledge of functional programming patterns and experience contributing to RESTful services (Scala APIs)
Familiarity with async programming models (events, callbacks, promises, async/await) and threading/concurrency
Understanding of computer science fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, databases, etc.) and developing knowledge of design patterns and principles
Exposure to a Public Cloud Provider (e.g., AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)
Understanding of source control concepts and systems, CI/CD pipelines and exposure to Git
Familiarity with build and deployment technologies such as Jenkins and Docker.
Exposure to messaging technologies (e.g., Kafka, Kinesis, SQS, etc.)
Familiarity with observability tools for metrics, logging, and monitoring (e.g., Datadog, Splunk, Grafana)
Awareness of caching technologies
Knowledge of AGILE/Scrum practices.
Good written and verbal communication skills.
Eager to learn, developing problem-solving skills with a collaborative mindset.

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

backend developmentfunctional programmingRESTful servicesasync programmingdata structuresalgorithmsdesign patternscloud computingCI/CD pipelinescaching technologies

Soft Skills

communication skillsproblem-solving skillscollaborative mindseteagerness to learn