Principal Product Software Engineer — Scale & Impact

The Walt Disney Company

New York (NY)

Hybrid

USD 197,000 - 265,000

Full time

2 days ago

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Job summary

The Walt Disney Company’s Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology teams are seeking a Principal Product Software Engineer to steer architecture and drive scalable streaming platforms in New York, NY. You will partner with distributed engineers, shape patterns, and mentor others while delivering reliable services for millions of users.

You will lead best practices, influence cross‑team decisions, and collaborate with product management and operations to build robust,

Qualifications

10+ years of experience crafting large-scale Java/Scala services.
Strong programming skills in Java and OO languages; solid CS fundamentals.
Experience with source control systems and CI/CD pipelines.
Ability to work independently and with cross-team collaboration; mentoring.

Responsibilities

Work with a distributed team of engineers across multiple organizations building software collaboratively.
Identity patterns that can help the teams scale, create proposals, and drive adoption of those patterns.
Challenge current architectural choices while collaborating to solve problems in innovative ways.
Drive adoption of consistent technical frameworks across the organization.
Drive best engineering practices to write well-constructed and easy-to-maintain code, defensive and robust tests.
Lead through metrics - understand application performance and costs and push for better results.