Principal Product Software Engineer - Java
The Walt Disney Company2 months ago
Glendale, CA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$184k - $247k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, implementation, and delivery of software for highly complex, ambiguous, and strategically important problem spaces.
- Set backend architectural direction and personally write significant critical-path code.
- Decompose large architectures into independently developed components and align multiple teams around coherent designs.
- Lead projects spanning multiple teams and collaborate with business users, product managers, designers, and Principal Engineers.
- Drive engineering excellence through robust, scalable, cost-effective, simple designs, code review, design patterns, automated testing, and operational excellence.
- Lead design reviews, resolve escalations, mitigate complexity risks, and influence business and technology direction.
- Mentor engineers, educate the engineering community, participate in hiring and interviews, and perform promotion assessments.
- Champion AI-assisted development tools, models, and workflows to improve engineering productivity and quality.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience building large-scale, highly available distributed services.
- Expert-level programming skills in Java or a similar object-oriented language and strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and databases.
- Proven experience designing backend architectures spanning multiple teams and driving consensus.
- Experience building and operating message-based distributed systems, including caching strategies.
- Experience mentoring engineers and setting technical direction beyond a single team.
- Preferred: experience with highly scalable, real-time content or data platforms serving millions of consumers.
- Preferred: extensive experience with Amazon Web Services or a similar cloud service, Terraform, and infrastructure-as-code practices.
- Preferred: experience with event-driven messaging architectures such as SQS and SNS, plus relational and non-relational databases such as DynamoDB and OpenSearch.
- Preferred: contributions to patents, industry conferences, or the broader technical community.
Benefits
- Full-time position based in Glendale, California.
- Full range of medical, financial, and other benefits may be provided depending on the level and position offered.
- A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided in addition to base pay.
About The Walt Disney Company
The Walt Disney Company is a diversified entertainment business that produces films and television, operates theme parks and resorts, and runs streaming services including Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+. It earns revenue from subscriptions and advertising, theatrical distribution, licensing and merchandise, and park admissions and experiences. Founded in 1923 and headquartered in Burbank, California, Disney owns brands such as Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm, and 20th Century Studios and serves audiences worldwide.