Principal Software Engineer
Postuler maintenant Postuler ultérieurement Job ID 10130308 Emplacement Seattle, Washington, États-Unis Entreprise Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology Date de publication 05/09/2025Résumé du poste:
Technology is at the heart of Disney’s past, present, and future. Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is a global organization of engineers, product developers, designers, technologists, data scientists, and more – all working to build and advance the technological backbone for Disney’s media business globally.
The team marries technology with creativity to build world-class products, enhance storytelling, and drive velocity, innovation, and scalability for our businesses. We are Storytellers and Innovators. Creators and Builders. Entertainers and Engineers. We work with every part of The Walt Disney Company’s media portfolio to advance the technological foundation and consumer media touch points serving millions of people around the world.
Here are a few reasons why we think you’d love working here:
Building the future of Disney’s media: Our Technologists are designing and building the products and platforms that will power our media, advertising, and distribution businesses for years to come.
Reach, Scale & Impact: More than ever, Disney’s technology and products serve as a signature doorway for fans' connections with the company’s brands and stories. Disney+. Hulu. ESPN. ABC. ABC News…and many more. These products and brands – and the unmatched stories, storytellers, and events they carry – matter to millions of people globally.
Innovation: We develop and implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms, and solve complex and distinctive technical problems.
Product Engineering is a unified team responsible for the engineering of Disney Entertainment & ESPN digital and streaming products and platforms. This includes product engineering, media engineering, quality assurance, engineering behind personalization, commerce, lifecycle, and identity.
Job Summary:
As a Principal Software Engineer on the Solutions Architecture team, you will represent the Product Engineering group as an Architect.
This entails coordinating with engineering leaders across disciplines (client applications, identity, commerce, media, content orchestration, telemetry, core services) to define the most effective solutions to business needs and engineering challenges. You will be designing, developing, and disseminating technical strategy across disciplines. This role is overseeing and influencing product solutions, with a distinct focus on backend solutions, across Disney Entertainment and ESPN Technology brands such as Disney+ and Hulu. This includes championing technical initiatives with an eye towards unifying client and service teams on scalable solutions that power resilient customer experiences.
The role requires an inherent desire to quickly deep-dive on engineering and business use cases with the ability to provide multiple solutions, weighing both the value created and effort required by the decisions you will make. This includes authoring detailed technical documentation, actively participating in technical proposals with peers, and coaching/mentoring other principal developers and architects throughout the company.
Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:
- Help design the architecture and drive the implementation of novel engineering solutions for a wide range of client platforms.
- Coordinate with engineering leaders across all disciplines to define effective requirements and technical solutions.
- Author detailed technical design documentation
- Rapidly address production issues and clearly articulate root cause analyses
Required Education, Experience/Skills/Training:
Basic Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience designing, building and maintaining globally scaled customer facing applications.
- 5+ years of experience working across disciplines such as product, program, and business stakeholders to refine plans and strategy.
- Demonstrates strong leadership, facilitation, and presentation skills, with a proven ability to influence business and technology leadership without authority.
- Possesses excellent written and verbal communication skills, and is well-organized, capable of delivering through ambiguity, working both independently and collaboratively, and multi-tasking amongst multiple priorities.
- Regularly conceptualize and communicate innovative ideas and proactively share knowledge with others.
Preferred Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience developing applications on mobile or connected devices (smartTVs, set top boxes, or game consoles).
- Experience with video streaming technologies including DASH and/or HLS and DRM.
Experience with:
Languages: JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, Python
Documentation tools: Smithy, OpenAPI, Plantuml, Lucidchart
Datastore technologies: S3, Redis, DDB, Elastic Search, Databricks
Network protocols and tools: Load balancers, Envoy/Istio, websockets, CDNs, Charles, Fiddler
Familiarity with common cloud infrastructure environments and solutions
Required Education
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field, or equivalent training or work experience.
The hiring range for this position in Seattle, WA is $193,100.00 to $258,900.00 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also 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.
Sur Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology:
Chez Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology, nous allions imagination et innovation pour réinventer la manière dont les gens vivent et interagissent avec les histoires et les produits les plus appréciés au monde. Notre travail est extrêmement vaste et complexe. Nous créons des expériences incroyables, transformons l’avenir des médias et créons des produits et des plateformes qui rapprochent les gens du monde entier des histoires et des sports qu’ils aiment.
Chez Disney, notre capacité à associer une technologie de classe mondiale à une créativité sans pareille nous rend uniques. C’est l’essence même de notre passé, de notre présent et de notre avenir. Nous sommes des narrateurs et des innovateurs. Des créateurs et des bâtisseurs. Des artistes et des ingénieurs.
Sur The Walt Disney Company:
The Walt Disney Company, ainsi que ses filiales et sociétés affiliées, forme l’une des principales entreprises internationales diversifiées de divertissement familial et de médias. Elle comprend trois secteurs d'activités essentiels : Disney Entertainment, ESPN et Disney Experiences. Depuis ses modestes débuts en tant que studio de dessins animés dans les années 1920 jusqu’à son statut de référence actuel dans le secteur du divertissement, Disney poursuit fièrement sa tradition de création d’histoires et d’expériences exceptionnelles pour tous les membres de la famille. Les histoires, les personnages et les expériences de Disney touchent les consommateurs et les visiteurs du monde entier. À travers nos activités présentes dans plus de 40 pays, nos employés et cast members collaborent pour créer des expériences de divertissement appréciées à la fois au niveau universel et local.
Le poste est rattaché à Disney Streaming Technology LLC , qui fait partie d’une entreprise que nous appelons Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology.
Disney Streaming Technology LLC est un employeur qui souscrit au principe d’égalité des chances à l’emploi. Les candidat(e)s seront pris(es) en considération pour un emploi sans distinction de race, de religion, de couleur, de sexe, d’orientation sexuelle, de genre, d’identité de genre, d’expression de genre, d’origine nationale, d’ascendance, d’âge, d’état matrimonial, de statut militaire ou d’ancien combattant, d’état de santé, d’informations génétiques ou de handicap, ou de tout autre motif interdit par la loi fédérale, étatique ou locale. Disney défend un environnement commercial où les idées et décisions de tous et toutes nous aident à grandir, innover, créer les meilleures histoires et être pertinents dans un monde en évolution constante.