Senior Principal Software Engineer

1 Month ago • 12 Years + • Full Stack Development • $219,268 PA - $294,140 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

This Senior Principal Software Engineer role involves building and operating critical services supporting Disney Streaming users. Responsibilities include collaborating with a distributed engineering team, identifying scalability patterns, challenging architectural choices, leading architecture groups, translating business requirements into technical solutions, driving project delivery across cross-functional teams, and implementing best engineering practices. The role also entails leading through metrics, representing Disney Streaming externally, and mentoring senior engineers. The engineer will work on high-request services powering user experiences across various devices, focusing on commerce workflows.
Must have:
  • 12+ years Java/Scala experience
  • Strong programming skills
  • Experience with CI/CD
  • Collaboration and leadership
  • Problem-solving and communication
Good to have:
  • Team management experience
  • Mentoring experience

Job Details

Job Summary:

On any given day at Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology, we’re reimagining ways to create magical viewing experiences for the world’s most beloved stories while also transforming Disney’s media business for the future. Whether that’s evolving our streaming and digital products in new and immersive ways, powering worldwide advertising and distribution to maximize flexibility and efficiency, or delivering Disney’s unmatched entertainment and sports content, every day is a moment to make a difference to partners and to hundreds of millions of people around the world.

  • Building the future of Disney’s media business: DE&E Technologists are designing and building the infrastructure that will power Disney’s media, advertising, and distribution businesses for years to come.
  • Reach & Scale: The products and platforms this group builds and operates delight millions of consumers every minute of every day – from Disney+ and Hulu, to ABC News and Entertainment, to ESPN and ESPN+, and much more.
  • Innovation: We develop and execute groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms and enhance how audiences experience sports, entertainment & news.

Our teams build systems that power all the Commerce workflows within Disney Streaming. We implement reliable, high-request services that power user experiences across web, mobile, and living room devices.

We are looking for a Senior Principal Software engineer who wants to build and operate these critical services that support all our users! We're a fast-paced, dynamic, collaborative, and fun team, and we're looking forward to learning more about you!

Responsibilities

  • Work with a distributed team of engineers across multiple organizations building software collaboratively.
  • Identity patterns that can help the teams scale, create proposals, and drive adoption of those patterns
  • Challenge current architectural choices while collaborating to solve problems in innovative ways
  • Lead architecture group to inspire change across the organization as well as partner organizations
  • Work with Product Management to help translate business requirements into Technical solutions - drive the delivery of key projects across the various cross functional teams
  • Drive best engineering practices to write well-constructed and easy-to-maintain code, defensive and robust tests.
  • Lead through metrics - understand application performance and costs and push for better results.
  • Represent Disney streaming in various internal and external conferences, blogs, mentor Senior engineers.

Basic Qualifications:

  • 12+ years of related experience crafting large-scale, highly available Java, Scala, etc services utilizing various database and messaging technologies.
  • Strong programming skills in Java and other object-oriented languages and a strong grasp of computer science fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, databases, etc.)
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or a comparable field of study.
  • Experience using source control systems and CI/CD pipelines.
  • An ability to work both independently and collaboratively.
  • Champion cross-team projects. Coach and mentor other specialists on the team to ensure that all software utilizes industry best practices.
  • Collaborate efficiently with product management, technical program management, operations, and other engineering teams to capture requirements, drive implementation, and provide transparency.
  • A broad perspective on problem-solving.
  • Strong communication skills and a desire to share your knowledge with team members and others.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience directly managing and mentoring a team.

The hiring range for this position in Los Angeles, CA is $219,268 - $294,140. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. 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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