Principal Product Software Engineer

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Principal Product Software Engineer

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Job Description:

Technology is at the heart of Disneys 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 Disneys media business globally.

The team marries technology with creativity to build world-class products enhance storytelling and drive velocity innovation and scalability for our are Storytellers and Innovators. Creators and Builders. Entertainers and Engineers. We work with every part of The Walt Disney Companys 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 youd love working here:

Building the future of Disneys 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 Disneys technology and products serve as a signature doorway for fans connections with the companys brands and stories. Disney. Hulu. ESPN. ABC. ABC Newsand 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.

Our teams build systems that power all the Commerce workflows within Disney Streaming. We implement reliable high-request services that power user experiences across web mobile and living room devices. We are looking for a Principal Software engineer who wants to build and operate these critical services that support all our users! Were a fast-paced dynamic collaborative and fun team and were looking forward to learning more about you!

- Work with a distributed team of engineers across multiple organizations building software collaboratively.

- Identity patterns that can help the teams scale create proposals and drive adoption of those patterns

- Challenge current architectural choices while collaborating to solve problems in innovative ways.

- Drive adoption of consistent technical frameworks across the organization

- Drive best engineering practices to write well-constructed and easy-to-maintain code defensive and robust tests.

- Lead through metrics - understand application performance and costs and push for better results.

- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Systems Software Electrical or Electronics Engineering or a comparable field of study.

- 10 years of related experience crafting large-scale highly available Java Scala etc services utilizing various database and messaging technologies. Strong programming skills in Java and other object-oriented languages and a strong grasp of computer science fundamentals (data structures algorithms databases - SQL and noSQL etc.)

- Experience using source control systems and CI/CD pipelines.

- An ability to work both independently and collaboratively.

- Champion cross-team projects.

- Coach and mentor other specialists on the team to ensure that all software utilizes industry best practices. Collaborate efficiently with product management technical program management operations and other engineering teams to capture requirements drive implementation and provide transparency.

- A broad perspective on problem-solving.

- Strong communication skills and a desire to share your knowledge with team members and others.

- Experience directly managing and mentoring a team.

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The hiring range for this position in San Francisco is $206400 - $276700 and in New York NY $197400 - $264700 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidates 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.

Job Posting Segment:

Product Engineering

Job Posting Primary Business:

PE - Growth Commerce & Identity

Primary Job Posting Category:

Product Software Engineering

Employment Type:

Full time

Primary City State Region Postal Code:

New York NY USA

Alternate City State Region Postal Code:

USA - CA - Market St

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