Company Overview 

Disney Streaming encompasses the teams leading the Disney+, Hulu, ESPN+, and Star+ streaming applications and services within the Disney Media and Entertainment Distribution group. We sit at the intersection between entertainment, sports, and technology and seek to connect viewers with the stories they love, while driving the streaming industry forward with consumer-first innovation.

Position Overview

The Content & Experience Delivery (CXD) team is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to assist with building the systems that provide data at scale to viewers across Hulu, Disney+, ESPN+, and Star+ (DSS). The Disney content catalog is one of the largest in the world and a lot goes into creating it. Our content delivery systems are excellent at presenting the catalog to our viewers reliably and speedily. We build and operate low latency, high availability services that power the content browsing experiences for hundreds of millions of viewers across the world. We're looking for a principal engineer who can contribute to the design of systems that can support billions of requests every day in support of providing a delightful content browsing experience to our viewers.  

There's a lot that goes into delivering content to Disney Streaming viewers across the world. Disney Streaming teams need to manage ratings, licensing, localization, promotional content, content protection, content metadata, and much more. Content & Experience delivery is the nexus of many content data domains within Disney Streaming. We are the data backbone that powers that browsing experience for all Disney Streaming services. As a Principal Engineer in CXD you'll design systems that improve how we gather and serve data at scale to all Disney Streaming viewers.

What you will do:

• You'll meet with engineering and product teams to understand their goals
• You'll consult and brainstorm with other engineering leaders
• You'll design systems that meet the objectives of Disney Streaming.
• You'll prototype solutions that prove out your ideas.
• You'll get feedback on your ideas through detailed RFCs
• You'll lead engineering teams through implementation in support of your designs.
• You'll consult with engineering teams to help them identify solutions to the problems they are solving.
• You'll define and tweak operational models to support highly available and performant systems.
   

What to bring: 

• 10+ years of related experience crafting large-scale, highly available Java services utilizing various database and messaging technologies.
• Minimum BS/BA in Computer Science/Engineering or related field 
• Strong programming skills in Java and other object-oriented languages, and a strong grasp of computer science fundamentals.
• 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 DSS and industry best practices for scalable, fault tolerant system design.
• 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 at DSS.

Nice to have: 

• Cloud native system design
• Experience deploying and scaling within a cloud infrastructure.
• Experience directly managing and mentoring a team