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Software Engineering Manager at The Walt Disney Company — Bengaluru

Experience15–19 yrs
SalaryNot disclosed
Work modeonsite
Levelexecutive
Posted3 Sept 2026

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About The Walt Disney Company

The Walt Disney Company is hiring in Bengaluru in media advertising. This role looks for around 15+ years of experience.

Skills

Airflow
Apache Spark
Databricks
Snowflake
OpenSearch
Python
TypeScript
Java
distributed systems
Agile
Scrum
data engineering
data governance

The role

A software engineering manager at a media technology company leads data platform engineering, develops distributed systems, and applies data engineering. The role coaches engineers, drives architectural design, and improves platform operations.

Full job description

Responsibilities:

Innovate and ideate products and features that improve the platform and promote efficiency across all data pipelines in the data organization.

Skilled at producing architectural artifacts, including system diagrams, technical documentation, and design decision records

Engage with and understand our customers, forming relationships that allow us to understand and prioritize both innovative new offerings and incremental platform improvements.

Manage, coach, and grow engineers to perform their best work to deliver products at the need of the hour with the highest quality.

Collaborate with product managers, architects, and other engineers to drive the success of the data platform.

Ensure high operational efficiency and quality of the data platform projects.

Be an active participant and advocate of agile/scrum ceremonies to collaborate and improve processes for our team.

Requirements:

BS/BA in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a closely related field

10+ years of software engineering experience leading teams and delivering projects end-to-end.

4+ years of management/team lead experience

Strong algorithmic problem-solving expertise

Proficient in data engineering technologies like Airflow, Spark, Databricks, Snowflake, and OpenSearch

Strong people manager with key skills like conflict resolution, ruthless prioritization, effective execution, and communication

Strong programming fundamentals in at least one primary language (e. g., Python, TypeScript, or Java) and a working understanding of distributed systems trade-offs around consistency, latency, and cost at scale.

Track record of leading cross-team technical efforts and mentoring senior engineers.

Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science or a related discipline or its equivalent.

Preferred Qualifications:

Passion to explore new technology and participate in proof of concepts.

Enjoy new and meaningful technology or business challenges that require you to think and respond quickly.

Passionate about automation, data, technology, and creative innovation.

Hands-on experience with several of: Airflow, Spark, Databricks, Snowflake - including tuning and operating these in production.

Familiarity with search/graph systems (OpenSearch, Neptune) and API frameworks (GraphQL).

Experience with data catalog platforms (Acryl DataHub, Alation), data governance, and PII handling.

Background in knowledge graph systems and graph algorithms.