Principal Software Engineer

🕒 May 20

🏢🏡 New York City – Hybrid

💵 $197.4k - $264.7k / year

⏰ Full Time

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The Walt Disney Company

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1923

📱 Media

💰 Post-IPO Debt on 2020-04

Media • Entertainment

The Walt Disney Company is a global entertainment company known for its iconic storytelling, characters, and experiences across various platforms and devices. With a focus on delivering memorable experiences to guests worldwide, Disney operates through its iconic theme parks, media networks, and film studios. It is committed to respecting privacy and providing transparency in its data collection and usage processes. The company also ensures compliance with various privacy laws and offers options for consumers to manage their privacy settings. Disney's dedication spans across film, television, and interactive media, making it a leader in the media and entertainment industry.

📋 Description

• Define and drive end-to-end solution architecture across Live, Linear, and VOD streaming workflows. • Establish architectural patterns that unify media ingest, processing, metadata, ads, distribution, and playback ecosystems. • Lead cross-domain design for integrations with Ad platforms, metadata services, rights systems, and client applications. • Contribute to long-term technical strategy, ensuring scalability, resiliency, and cost efficiency across the media supply chain. • Partner with Engineering, Product, Program Management, and stakeholders teams to deliver cohesive platform solutions. • Influence technical direction across multiple teams and organizations without direct authority. • Lead architecture reviews, drive alignment, and resolve complex cross-system challenges. • Design and document high-scale, distributed systems supporting millions of concurrent streams and global content distribution. • Champion best practices in observability, reliability, performance optimization, and cost management.

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with significant time in architecture and distributed systems design. • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience. • Proven experience designing and scaling high-throughput, low-latency systems in a cloud environment. • Strong proficiency in one or more languages such as Java, Python, or similar. • Deep understanding of microservices architecture, event-driven systems, and API design. • Experience with AWS or similar cloud platforms, including services such as S3, DynamoDB, Kinesis, SNS/SQS, or Kafka. • Strong foundation in data modeling, system design, and performance optimization. • Ability to write production-quality code and contribute hands-on when needed. • Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams.

🏖️ Benefits

• 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.