Principal Product Software Engineer
The Walt Disney Company1 hour ago
Base Salary
$197k - $277k/yr
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with distributed engineering teams across multiple organizations to build software.
- Identify scalable engineering patterns, create proposals, and drive adoption.
- Challenge architectural choices and collaborate on innovative technical solutions.
- Drive adoption of consistent technical frameworks across the organization.
- Promote maintainable code, defensive programming, robust tests, and engineering best practices.
- Use application performance and cost metrics to drive improvements.
- Champion cross-team projects and collaborate with product management, technical program management, operations, and engineering teams.
- Manage, coach, and mentor team members and specialists.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or a comparable field.
- 10+ years of related experience crafting large-scale, highly available services using Java, Scala, or similar technologies.
- Strong programming skills in Java and other object-oriented languages.
- Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, databases, SQL, and NoSQL systems.
- Experience with source control systems and CI/CD pipelines.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively, with strong communication and problem-solving skills.
- Experience directly managing and mentoring a team.
- Ability to collaborate across teams, capture requirements, drive implementation, and provide transparency.
Benefits
- Full-time employment.
- Hiring range is $206,400–$276,700 per year in San Francisco and $197,400–$264,700 per year in New York, NY.
- Bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided in addition to medical, financial, and other benefits.
- Work is associated with Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology’s product engineering organization.