Principal Product Software Engineer Content Platform Leader

5014 Disney Entertainment & Sports LLC; Glendale (CA); On-site; USD 184,000 - 247,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Bonus potential

Job summary

5014 Disney Entertainment & Sports LLC in Glendale, CA seeks a Principal Product Software Engineer to shape technical direction for high‑scale content platforms, including Disney’s media products. You will lead critical‑path code, design reviews, and architectural decisions, aligning multiple teams toward simple, coherent designs.

You will balance trade‑offs, stay current with industry trends, mentor engineers, and champion AI‑assisted tooling while delivering robust, scalable solutions for

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Lead design, implementation, and delivery of software in complex spaces with long‑term impact.
• Deconstruct large architectures into independently developable components for multiple teams.
• Mentor engineers and drive engineering excellence and best practices across the org.

Skills

Java

Backend architectures

Distributed systems

Code review

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS

Terraform

OpenSearch

CI/CD

Job description

5014 Disney Entertainment & Sports LLC in Glendale, CA seeks a Principal Product Software Engineer to shape technical direction for high‑scale content platforms, including Disney’s media products. You will lead critical‑path code, design reviews, and architectural decisions, aligning multiple teams toward simple, coherent designs.

You will balance trade‑offs, stay current with industry trends, mentor engineers, and champion AI‑assisted tooling while delivering robust, scalable solutions for