Senior Principal Platform Engineer, Streaming Services

The Walt Disney Company

Washington (District of Columbia)

On-site

USD 240,000 - 321,000

Full time

10 days ago

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Job summary

The Walt Disney Company is seeking a Senior Principal Software Engineer, Platform Services, to design, implement, and evolve the end-to-end architecture for Disney’s platform services layer that powers Disney+, ESPN, and Hulu. You will own the technical vision and core software implementations for platform services used by 400+ engineering teams.

You will collaborate with Directors and VPs to align platform capabilities with product delivery, mentor engineers, and drive reliability,

Qualifications

12+ years of software engineering experience
Experience designing, building, and operating platform or infrastructure services at scale
Deep expertise in distributed systems, API gateways, service mesh, tracing, observability
Hands-on experience with service-to-service authentication and zero-trust networking
Ability to communicate architecture and platform strategy to senior leaders
Experience leading build-versus-buy decisions for platform capabilities

Responsibilities

Design, implement, and own the technical architecture for Disney’s platform services layer.
Produce architecture decision records (ADRs) and platform RFCs to guide delivery teams.
Define golden path templates and tooling to make correct implementations the default path.
Review designs and roadmaps, resolve cross-domain dependencies, and translate architecture decisions into executable plans.
Mentor engineers and lead architecture reviews to build next-generation platform leadership