Principal Software Engineer - Remote | AWS, JVM, Python

The Walt Disney Company; City of Albany (NY); Remote; USD 28,000 - 41,000; Full time

Job summary

The Walt Disney Company in Albany, NY is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to design and build scalable frameworks that power Disney's services. You will work across a JVM and Python stack on AWS to deliver robust, high-performance systems for millions of users.

You will lead architecture decisions, drive best engineering practices, and own end-to-end delivery from development to deployment, collaborating with cross-functional teams across product, data, and infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Four-year degree in software engineering or related field, or equivalent work experience.
• Experience with relational and non-relational data stores and messaging systems.
• Ability to dive into a task and contribute quickly to both engineering and delivery.
• Strong coding, design, and architecture skills.
• Willingness to dive into performance tuning and end-to-end delivery.
• Experience building large-scale distributed systems in the cloud (AWS).

Responsibilities

• Lead design of well-architected solutions and iterate into systems.
• Drive best engineering practices with maintainable code and robust tests.
• Challenge current design decisions to maximize efficiency.
• Lead through metrics—analyze performance and costs.
• Own delivery quality—watch deployments and rollouts from start to finish.

Skills

Coding skills

Distributed systems

Cloud architecture

Performance tuning

End-to-end ownership

Education

Bachelor's degree in software engineering or related field

Tools

MongoDB

Cassandra

DynamoDB

Kafka

SQS

SNS

Kinesis

Java

Python

AWS

SQL

Job description

The Walt Disney Company in Albany, NY is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to design and build scalable frameworks that power Disney's services. You will work across a JVM and Python stack on AWS to deliver robust, high-performance systems for millions of users.

You will lead architecture decisions, drive best engineering practices, and own end-to-end delivery from development to deployment, collaborating with cross-functional teams across product, data, and infrastructure.