Senior Real-Time Streaming Data Engineer (AWS/Flink)

The Walt Disney Company; Bay Lake (FL); On-site; USD 135,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus & long-term incentive

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

The Walt Disney Company is seeking a Sr Software Engineer in Bay Lake, FL to design, build, and operate real-time event-driven systems. You will work on a cross-functional team within Disney Experiences, delivering scalable data pipelines and production-grade services.

You will architect and mentor on AWS-based platforms, leveraging Kinesis/Kafka, Java, and Apache Flink to process streaming data. Occasional travel may be required, with a strong emphasis on reliability and observability.

Qualifications

• Must have 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with experience in distributed, production systems.
• Must have expertise building real-time or streaming data pipelines (ingestion, aggregation, windowing, and emission).
• Must have deep hands-on experience with AWS (e.g., ECS/EKS, Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, CloudWatch).
• Must have Expert-level proficiency in Java.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate real-time, event-driven systems that ingest and process data from edge devices through technologies like Kinesis, Kafka, and MQTT.
• Develop backend services and streaming pipelines using Java and Apache Flink to transform data into reliable, consumable events, managing Guest media and identity reconciliation.
• Architect and operate production systems on AWS, with a strong focus on scalability, cost efficiency, observability, and fault tolerance.
• Lead technical decisions, drive system design, and act as an owner for critical components of the platform.
• Build clean, versioned event schemas and APIs that integrate with downstream consumers and external systems.
• Independently acts as technical liaison and communicates effectively with technical partners, business partners, and front line operators.
• Comfortable mentoring junior developers and representing technical tradeoffs to senior leadership.
• This position may require occasional travel, estimated at 10–15%.

Skills

Java

AWS

Real-time data processing

Distributed systems

Streaming pipelines

ECS/EKS

Lambda

DynamoDB

CloudWatch

Apache Flink

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Kafka

Kinesis

MQTT

S3

DynamoDB

CloudWatch

Apache Flink

Job description

The Walt Disney Company is seeking a Sr Software Engineer in Bay Lake, FL to design, build, and operate real-time event-driven systems. You will work on a cross-functional team within Disney Experiences, delivering scalable data pipelines and production-grade services.

You will architect and mentor on AWS-based platforms, leveraging Kinesis/Kafka, Java, and Apache Flink to process streaming data. Occasional travel may be required, with a strong emphasis on reliability and observability.