The Walt Disney Company · 2 hours ago
Sr Principal Software Engineer
New York, NY
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$240K/yr - $321K/yr
12+ years expThe Walt Disney Company is focused on transforming its media business through innovative technology solutions. As a Sr Principal Software Engineer, you will be responsible for setting technical direction and best practices within the Identity Engineering organization, collaborating with various teams to enhance user experiences across Disney's streaming and digital products.
Amusement Park and ArcadeAnimationConsumer GoodsDigital MediaE-CommerceMedia and EntertainmentMulti-level MarketingPerforming ArtsResorts
Responsibilities
Discover, define, and refine best practices for the design, development, testing, deployment, and support of stateful microservices and lambdas in a multi-region cloud environment
Promoting Open Standards for all areas of Identity management where applicable, including Authentication, Authorization, SSO, and Identity Provisioning
Provide guidance to engineering leaders and their teams to help them improve their technical ability and build their understanding of the products and platform that we are responsible for
Collaborate with Product Managers, Designers, QA, Operations, and other stakeholders to understand requirements and articulate technical solutions and architectures
Qualification
Required
Minimum of 12 years of related work experience
Familiarity with at least one of the following Java Virtual Machine (JVM) languages: Java, Scala, or Kotlin
Familiarity with at least one of the following cloud providers: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Compute (GCP), or Microsoft Azure
Familiarity with at least one of the following: Spark, Hive, or Presto
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience
Preferred
Expertise with open standards in the identity space, including: OpenID, OpenID Connect (OIDC), OAuth, SAML, and LDAP
Familiarity with Scala programming language and popular frameworks such as: Cats, Cats Effect, ZIO, and http4s
Familiarity with both object-oriented programming (OOP) and functional programming (FP) best practices
Familiarity with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Terraform, and infrastructure as code (IaC) best practices
Familiarity with Databricks and Apache Airflow products
Benefits
A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package
The full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits
Company
The Walt Disney Company
The Walt Disney Company started as a cartoon studio and evolves into sports coverage and television shows.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$11BKey Investors
Citibank
2020-04-13Post Ipo Debt· $5B
2020-03-20Post Ipo Debt· $6B
1978-01-06IPO
Leadership Team
Robert Iger
CEO
Christine M. McCarthy
Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Recent News
2025-12-24
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