Senior Product Software Engineer II
The Walt Disney Company · Bengaluru
- Experience5–8 yrs
- SalaryNot disclosed
- Work modeonsite
- Levelsenior
- Posted2 Sept 2026
About The Walt Disney Company
The Walt Disney Company is hiring in Bengaluru in media advertising. This role looks for around 5+ years of experience.
Skills
- Java
- Spring Boot
- relational databases
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- RESTful APIs
- microservices
- distributed systems
- data structures and algorithms
- automated testing
- Agile
The role
A backend engineer at a media and advertising company designs scalable distributed systems for user-centric advertising, applying Java and Spring Boot with relational databases. The role develops RESTful APIs and microservices, strengthens observability, and supports programmatic advertising and real-time bidding.
Full job description
As a Senior Product Software Engineer II, you will collaborate with cross-functional partners and engineering teams on the design and implementation of innovative products and features, contributing to the evolution of user-centric advertising at scale. You'll exercise technical ownership, provide peer mentoring, and ensure our systems are robust, observable, and future-ready.
Responsibilities:
Design, build, and support scalable distributed systems.
Collaborate with product and engineering peers to deliver features that enhance user-centric advertising.
Translate user stories into actionable engineering tasks with ownership from development through deployment.
Mentor and support teammates through code reviews, documentation, and informal guidance (no direct reports).
Improve system observability by implementing metrics, monitoring, and alerting solutions.
Participate in on-call rotations as part of our commitment to operational excellence.
Champion best practices in code quality, automated testing, and agile workflows.
Understanding and using automated tools (AI) while adhering to company policy.
Requirements:
5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience.
Proficiency with Java and related frameworks (Spring Boot, ORMs, etc. ).
Strong background in relational databases (MySQL, Postgres), including schema and query design.
Experience working with RESTful APIs, microservices, and distributed systems.
Strong foundation in computer science principles, including data structures and algorithms.
Strong problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
A passion for building and owning mission-critical systems.
A growth mindset, with a willingness to mentor and learn in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.
A commitment and desire to effectively communicate and collaborate across teams and systems.
An understanding of microservice encapsulation and loose coupling and why they are important.
An understanding of how to define technical and operational metrics to measure system health and to manage risk.
A pragmatic approach to solving engineering challenges at scale.
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience in ad tech.
Experience with programmatic advertising or real-time bidding platforms.
Experience with Spring Boot and related Spring projects.
Cloud platforms such as AWS.
Modern DevOps tools such as Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes.
Data streaming mechanisms such as Apache Kafka, AWS Kinesis, and/or SNS/SQS.