Senior Principal Software Engineer

We are looking for a Senior Principal Software Engineer who is passionate about developing high performance platforms. As a member of our User Foundations team, you will build critical User Capabilities shared across all experiences on the streaming services: Disney+, Hulu, ESPN+ and Star+. You'll implement reliable, high-throughput services and pipelines for gathering information about our users and delivering personalized experiences.

Key responsibilities include:

• Identifying patterns that can help teams scale, creating proposals, and driving adoption of those patterns
• Challenging current architectural choices while collaborating to solve problems in innovative ways
• Driving best engineering practices to write well-constructed and easy-to-maintain code, defensive and robust tests
• Leading through metrics - understanding application performance and costs and pushing for better results
• Working with Product Management to translate business requirements into Technical solutions
• Leading architecture group to inspire change across the organization and partner organizations
• Representing Disney streaming in various internal and external conferences, blogs, mentoring Senior engineers

This role requires 12+ years of related experience crafting large-scale, highly available Java services utilizing various database and messaging technologies. You should have strong programming skills in Java and other object-oriented languages, and a strong grasp of computer science fundamentals. Experience with SpringBoot, non-relational databases, Redis, Apache Kafka, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) is highly desirable.

The position offers competitive compensation, including potential bonuses and long-term incentives, as well as a full range of benefits. Join us in reimagining ways to create magical viewing experiences for the world's most beloved stories while transforming Disney's media business for the future.