Ad Experiences Principal Engineer - Platform & Scale

The Walt Disney Company; Glendale (CA); On-site; USD 188,000 - 253,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus potential

Medical and financial benefits

Job summary

Disney Entertainment & ESPN Product & Technology seeks a Principal Software Engineer for Ad Experiences in Glendale. You will design and implement scalable, low-latency systems, mentor teams, and own critical components from concept to production.

You will collaborate with product teams, translate requirements into robust technical implementations, and enhance observability while maintaining high reliability in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• BS or MS in Computer Science/Engineering or relevant work experience.
• 10+ years of software engineering experience in a distributed, highly available services ecosystem.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Write and review code and tests with a focus on performance and maintainability.
• Support engineers on On-Call shifts and translate requirements into tasks.
• Design, document, and review high-throughput microservices architectures.
• Improve observability with metrics, monitors, and alerts across services.
• Mentor others and bridge business requirements with technical implementations.

Skills

Java

Distributed systems

SpringBoot

Kafka/Kinesis

AWS

Observability

Docker

Kubernetes

Heap & threading

Profiling

Education

BS or MS in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Disney Entertainment & ESPN Product & Technology seeks a Principal Software Engineer for Ad Experiences in Glendale. You will design and implement scalable, low-latency systems, mentor teams, and own critical components from concept to production.

You will collaborate with product teams, translate requirements into robust technical implementations, and enhance observability while maintaining high reliability in a fast-paced environment.