Principal Product Software Engineer - Scale & Lead

The Walt Disney Company; New York (NY); On-site; USD 197,000 - 265,000; Full time

Job summary

The Walt Disney Company is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join Disney Entertainment & ESPN Product & Technology in New York. You will lead and mentor teams, shape scalable software patterns, and drive architectural decisions across multiple organizations that power Disney's digital products and services.

You will own engineering best practices, contribute to designing high-availability Java/Scala services, and collaborate with product management, operations, and other engineering teams

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or a comparable field of study.
• 10+ years of related experience crafting large-scale, highly available Java, Scala, etc services utilizing various database and messaging technologies.
• Experience using source control systems and CI/CD pipelines.
• An ability to work both independently and collaboratively.
• Champion cross-team projects.
• Coach and mentor other specialists on the team to ensure that all software utilizes industry best practices.

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.

Skills

Java

Scala

Object-oriented programming

Data structures

Algorithms

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Source control systems

CI/CD pipelines

databases - SQL and NoSQL

Job description

The Walt Disney Company is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join Disney Entertainment & ESPN Product & Technology in New York. You will lead and mentor teams, shape scalable software patterns, and drive architectural decisions across multiple organizations that power Disney's digital products and services.

You will own engineering best practices, contribute to designing high-availability Java/Scala services, and collaborate with product management, operations, and other engineering teams