Senior Software Engineer, Real-Time Data & Streaming

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

Job summary

The Walt Disney Company in Orlando is seeking a Sr. Software Engineer to design, build, and operate real-time, event-driven systems across edge devices, cloud infrastructure, and streaming pipelines.

You will contribute to a core platform, scale systems, and mentor junior developers while maintaining high reliability and performance. Ideal candidates have 5+ years in distributed, production software, deep Java expertise, and hands-on AWS experience.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience in distributed, production systems.
• Expertise building real-time or streaming data pipelines (ingestion, aggregation, windowing, emission).
• Deep hands-on experience with AWS (ECS/EKS, Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, CloudWatch).
• Expert-level proficiency in Java.
• Strong understanding of event-driven architecture, observability, resilience, and scalability.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate real-time, event-driven systems that ingest and process data from edge devices using technologies like Kinesis, Kafka, and MQTT.
• Develop backend services and streaming pipelines using Java and Apache Flink to transform data into reliable, consumable events and manage Guest media and identity reconciliation.
• Architect and operate production systems on AWS with a focus on scalability, cost efficiency, observability, and fault tolerance.
• Lead technical decisions, drive system design, and own critical components of the platform.
• Build clean, versioned event schemas and APIs that integrate with downstream consumers and external systems.
• Mentor junior developers and communicate technical tradeoffs to senior leadership.
• Travel up to 10–15%.

Skills

Java

Distributed systems

Streaming data pipelines

AWS

Education

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

Job description

The Walt Disney Company in Orlando is seeking a Sr. Software Engineer to design, build, and operate real-time, event-driven systems across edge devices, cloud infrastructure, and streaming pipelines.

You will contribute to a core platform, scale systems, and mentor junior developers while maintaining high reliability and performance. Ideal candidates have 5+ years in distributed, production software, deep Java expertise, and hands-on AWS experience.