Principal Software Engineer
Company: Disney Streaming
Location: Glendale
Posted on: June 21, 2022
Job Description:
We are looking for a Principal Engineer in our Experience
Management organization to architect and drive engineering
initiatives that drive Disney Streaming's powerful curation
ecosystem. You will be a crucial member of the Experience
Management leadership team and work with the Director of
Engineering. Experience Management is responsible for building
tools & services that drive dynamic configuration and curation of
content & artwork across Disney+, Star+, and Hulu. The teams you
support are responsible for building critical services that empower
marketing and programming teams at the company to design, configure
and curate the viewer application experience in close to realtime.
The work you do directly affects our business' programming,
engagement and monetization goals.The ideal candidate is looking to
multiply the efficiency, architecture and culture of our
organization by aspiring to leave things better than they find
them. They excel in multi-tasking and context-switching across
several crucial engineering domains. They have a strong background
in crafting robust internal APIs and toolsets, are knowledgeable
about best practices, and share our joint passion for continuously
improving the Disney Streaming curation systems.Responsibilities
:
- Drive the technical design and evolution of the services owned
by the teams under Experience Management
- Work with product, engineering and technical program management
to guide the entire lifecycle of an initiative
- Collaborate with principal engineers in other engineering orgs
to understand upstream/downstream integrations and align on system
design changes.
- End-to-end ownership of systems: Ideate, review design, mentor
during build, code-review, test, load-test, launch and monitor
performance in production
- Mentor engineers across the organization's domains and
introduce proven best practices in a consistent manner across
teams
- Lead architectural and design discussions to help the teams
build robust and scalable services in a microservices
architecture
- Build positive relationships with engineering managers in the
organization to understand and solve for specific domain
challenges
- Stay organized and communicate to leadership about challenges
and risksBasic Qualifications :
- Demonstrated success working as a full-stack senior or
principal engineer of meaningful & sophisticated internal tools and
API services for 3+ years
- Strong partner and communicator with ability to articulate the
architectural vision and technical concepts to many different
technical and non-technical audiences
- Ability to build incremental milestones from complex and
long-term architectural goals
- Ability to handle context-switching and supporting multiple
priorities in parallel
- Experience supporting teams in an agile software delivery
environment
- Success building relationships across engineering, product and
leadership
- Prior mentorship experience that focuses on guiding
problem-solving for engineers
- Patience, maturity and self-awareness navigating both
technology and people
- The ability to jump into a project and contribute immediately
to both architecture and implementation
- Experience working on internal systems that have strong
stakeholder presence
- Experience building reliable and scalable RESTful APIs
- Experience working with cloud based deployments
- Experience with Java/Spring, Python/Django or similar
- Experience with ReactJSAdditional Information : Location -
Santa Monica, CA preferred but also open to US Remote for the right
candidate#DisneyTech
Keywords: Disney Streaming, Glendale , Principal Software Engineer, IT / Software / Systems , Glendale, Arizona
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