The Walt Disney Company · 2 days ago

Principal Software Engineer

New York, NY

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

$189K/yr - $254K/yr

10+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Be hands-on. Working with engineers across multiple global teams, often leading proof of concept designs and providing guidance to define the forward-looking technological direction.

Influence the roadmap for multiple teams, working in partnership with peers and partners across Product, Project Management, and Engineering.

Understand the strategic business goals of the organization and guide cross-team solutions, architecture, and priorities that bring significant business value.

Be present in cross-organizational discussions, representing engineers within your teams, proactively identifying and documenting architectural gaps and focus areas.

Contribute to an inclusive culture that values learning and development, close collaboration between team members, and strives for excellence.

Mentor engineers across teams to help them improve their technical abilities and build their profiles within and outside of the organization.

Qualification

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Distributed SystemsProduct ArchitectureJavaScalaKotlinCloud ProvidersAmazon Web ServicesGoogle Cloud ComputeMicrosoft AzureTerraformInfrastructure as CodeAlignment Across TeamsBusiness RequirementsProblem-SolvingCommunicationLeadership

Required

Experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems with multi-level failover & fallback strategies.

Understanding of product architecture, high-quality coding, testing, and development practices.

In depth experience of a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) language such as: Java, Scala, or Kotlin.

Experience with at least one of the following cloud providers: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Compute (GCP), or Microsoft Azure.

Experience with Terraform or other infrastructure as code (IaC) tooling.

Experience in gaining alignment across multiple teams in order to deliver significant products or features.

Excellent verbal and written communication skills, specifically in understanding, framing and simplifying both technical & business requirements.

Comfort with ambiguity and leading conversations where discordant views are present.

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience.

Minimum 10+ years related work experience.