Principal Platform Architect — Product Software Engineer

The Walt Disney Company (France); Glendale (CA); On-site; USD 184,000 - 247,000; Full time

Job summary

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Data Engineering seeks a Principal Product Software Engineer to set technical direction for high-scale content platforms. You will help drive architectures across Disney brands and mentor engineers to deliver robust, scalable systems.

You will split time between coding and architecture, advocate for simple, coherent designs, and champion AI-assisted development tools to boost productivity and quality across teams.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of related experience crafting large-scale, highly available services.
• Proven track record of backend architectures spanning multiple teams.
• Strong programming skills in Java and fundamentals of CS.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, implementation, and delivery of software in complex, high-impact spaces.
• Deconstruct architectures into independently developable components across teams.
• Mentor engineers and promote engineering excellence and best practices.

Skills

Java

Backend architectures

Distributed systems

Communication skills

AGILE/Scrum

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

AWS

Terraform

CI/CD

OpenSearch

DynamoDB

Job description

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Data Engineering seeks a Principal Product Software Engineer to set technical direction for high-scale content platforms. You will help drive architectures across Disney brands and mentor engineers to deliver robust, scalable systems.

You will split time between coding and architecture, advocate for simple, coherent designs, and champion AI-assisted development tools to boost productivity and quality across teams.