The Walt Disney Company

Principal Software Engineer – Rust/C++

The Walt Disney Company

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Santa Monica • California, New York, Washington • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $188,400 - $276,700 per year

Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

C++

About the role

  • Provide strong, hands-on technical leadership for a team of engineers to improve and support in-production multi-platform native runtimes.
  • Help define a roadmap and technical direction for these runtimes that power Hulu across many living room device models.
  • Architect, design, build, and improve functionality at the core of these native frameworks.
  • Review code from the team and provide technical feedback and guidance.
  • Collaborate closely with other Disney teams and understand device limitations and requirements.
  • Work with hardware manufacturing partners to vet new hardware from a client application perspective.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of C/C++ experience on large codebases
  • Experience with creating technical roadmaps and providing technical direction, leadership, guidance, and feedback to a team of engineers
  • Hands-on experience with performance and memory profiling, tuning, and optimization, preferably on resource-constrained devices
  • Strong knowledge of software architecture and design patterns
  • Expertise working with versions of C++ both before and after C++11
  • Bachelor's degree or better in Computer Science or a related technical field or equivalent job experience.
Benefits
  • A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package,
  • Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.

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Hard skills
CC++software architecturedesign patternsperformance profilingmemory profilingtuningoptimizationtechnical roadmapslarge codebases
Soft skills
technical leadershipguidancecollaborationfeedback
Certifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science