Principal Product Software Engineer

Disney; Glendale (CA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Disney's ABC Core Content Technologies engineering team seeks a Principal Product Software Engineer who will set technical direction for high-scale content platforms powering Disney's brands including ABC Entertainment and ESPN+. You will balance engineering excellence with product impact, writing critical-path code and guiding multiple teams toward coherent designs.

You will deconstruct architectures, align teams, and mentor engineers while staying current with industry trends.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, implementation, and delivery of software in highly ambiguous and complex problem spaces with long-term impact on products and architecture.
• Deconstruct large architectures into components that teams can develop independently, then align them toward simple, coherent designs.
• Acquire deep understanding of business processes, dependencies, and teams to build professional relationships and drive execution.

Job description

Job Posting Title:

Principal Product Software Engineer

Req ID:

10157758

Job Description: Technology is at the heart of Disney's past, present, and future. Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is a global organization of engineers, product developers, designers, technologists, data scientists, and more - all working to build and advance the technological backbone for Disney's media business globally.

The team marries technology with creativity to build world-class products, enhance storytelling, and drive velocity, innovation, and scalability for our businesses. We are Storytellers and Innovators. Creators and Builders. Entertainers and Engineers. We work with every part of The Walt Disney Company's media portfolio to advance the technological foundation and consumer media touch points serving millions of people around the world.

Here are a few reasons why we think you'd love working here:

Building the future of Disney's media: Our Technologists are designing and building the products and platforms that will power our media, advertising, and distribution businesses for years to come.

Reach, Scale & Impact: More than ever, Disney's technology and products serve as a signature doorway for fans' connections with the company's brands and stories. Disney+. Hulu. ESPN. ABC. ABC News...and many more. These products and brands - and the unmatched stories, storytellers, and events they carry - matter to millions of people globally.

Innovation: We develop and implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms, and solve complex and distinctive technical problems.

The Product & Data Engineering team is responsible for end-to-end development for Disney's world-class consumer-facing products, including streaming platforms Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+, and digital products & experiences across ESPN, Marvel, Disney Studios, NatGeo, and ABC News. The team drives innovation at scale for millions of consumers around the world across Apple, Android, Smart TVs, game consoles, and the web, with our platforms powering core experiences like personalization, search, messaging and data.

The ABC Core Content Technologies engineering team is looking for a Principal Product Software Engineer who is passionate about setting technical direction for high-scale content platforms and multiplying the impact of engineers across the organization.

As a Principal Engineer, you are a trusted member of the technical leadership of the organization. You build and set the architectural direction for the systems that provide dynamic content management for many of Disney Entertainment's brands - including ABC Entertainment, ABC News, ABC OTV, Disney, Marvel, National Geographic, and Studios - as well as content ingestion from many internal and 3rd party sources, publishing pipelines, and complex image services. You operate in highly ambiguous and significantly complex problem spaces that have long-term impact on our brands, products, technology, and architecture.

You are recognized as an expert across multiple specialties. You influence business and technology direction, bringing industry context to technical decisions, and setting the standard for engineering excellence across the organization. As a hands-on technical leader, you split your time between coding, design, and architecture based on where your skills will have the greatest impact - personally writing critical-path code, deconstructing architectures so multiple teams can execute independently, and aligning those teams toward simple, coherent designs.

On a daily basis you should bring:

• A track record of driving clarity and simplicity in the face of significant ambiguity and complexity.
• A force-multiplier mindset - amplifying the impact of teams across the organization through design reviews, mentorship, and technical strategy.
• Deep ownership of the products and platforms your organization delivers.
• A pragmatic approach to balancing trade-offs between opportunity and architectural complexity.
• A passion for keeping abreast of industry trends and benchmarking our technology against the best in the industry.
• Kindness, pragmatic optimism, and your unique view and experience.

Responsibilities :

Lead the design, implementation, and delivery of software in highly ambiguous and significantly complex problem spaces that have long-term impact on our products, technology, and architecture. Heavily influence the design and personally write a significant portion of critical-path code, making the right trade-offs between opportunity and architectural complexity.

Deconstruct large architectures into components that can be developed independently by multiple teams, then align those teams toward simple, coherent designs that come together into an integrated whole. Lead strategically important projects that span multiple teams.

Acquire a deep understanding of our business processes, dependent systems, and teams, and develop professional relationships with k