Principal Software Engineer

Principal Software Engineer

About the Role

Join the Content Platforms team at Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology, where we are reimagining the technical ecosystem that empowers The Walt Disney Company to harness its unparalleled storytelling and distribute it around the world. As a Principal Software Engineer, you will be a technical leader driving the engineering and architecture direction of digital products that provide end-to-end order management capabilities for the supply chain.

Responsibilities

• Provide subject matter expertise on design and coding best practices and assist in building and implementing related guidelines and standards.
• Advise on architecture and propose solutions that span multiple teams and organizations.
• Maintain a deep understanding of our core systems and how they interact with upstream and downstream dependencies.
• Contribute and review code, set standards, and work with engineers to ensure product and design specifications are met.
• Responsible for fundamental platform performance, scalability, and resiliency.
• Partner with stakeholders to refine requirements and propose solutions to problems that span multiple teams.
• Influence and contribute to department technical strategy and planning.
• Provide mentoring to engineers on advanced technical issues.
• Research, learn, and evangelize widespread adoption of new technologies and architecture patterns.
• Lead cross-functional troubleshooting of complex issues as needed.
• Strategic planning and vision focused on experimenting with and deploying new technologies.
• Define requirements and architecture for multi-layered systems.
• Direct and influence the efforts of engineers across teams.
• Partner with leaders from other teams to ensure the planning and delivery of medium and large-scale projects.

Required Skills and Experience

• Leading role in the design, implementation, and deployment of high volume, cross-functional enterprise-level systems.
• Expert understanding of async programming models (events, callbacks, etc).
• Expertise in designing APIs and building RESTful services.
• Mastery in Kotlin (or Java) and experience with multiple open-source technologies like Spring, Tomcat, Nginx, Solr, Redis, MongoDB, GraphQL, etc.
• Experience using Node, JavaScript, TypeScript, React is strongly desired.
• Expert knowledge in cloud-based technologies such as AWS Fargate, EC2, SNS/SQS, S3, Lambdas, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, Cloudformation/Terraform, etc.
• Expertise with the full lifecycle of application development, including best practices of unit testing, code reviews, documentation, etc.
• Highly knowledgeable with build and deployment technologies such as Jenkins and Docker.
• Motivated self-starter with the ability to learn and adapt to new technologies.
• Strong communication skills and attention to detail.
• 10+ years of relevant industry experience.

Education

• BS in Computer Science or related technical discipline or its equivalent.

Location

This position is based in Burbank, California, and requires on-site work.

Compensation

The hiring range for this position in California is $180,700.00 to $242,300.00. The base pay offered will take into account internal equity and may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.