Principal Software Engineer
The Walt Disney Company
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Santa Monica • California, New York, Washington • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $188,400 - $276,700 per year
Job Level
Lead
Tech Stack
AWSAzureCloudDistributed SystemsGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaKotlinScalaTerraform
About the role
- Be hands-on, working with engineers across multiple global teams
- 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 use this to guide cross team solutions, architecture, and priorities
- Be present in cross organizational discussions, representing engineers within your teams
- Proactively identify and document architectural gaps and focus areas
- Contribute to an inclusive culture that values learning and development
- Mentor engineers across teams to improve their technical abilities
Requirements
- 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
- 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.
Benefits
- Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits
- Bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
distributed systemsJavaScalaKotlinAmazon Web Services (AWS)Google Cloud Compute (GCP)Microsoft AzureTerraforminfrastructure as code (IaC)high-quality coding
Soft skills
mentoringinfluencingcollaborationcommunicationproactive identificationdocumentationcross-organizational representationinclusive culturelearning and developmentalignment across teams
Certifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer ScienceBachelor's degree in Information SystemsBachelor's degree in Software EngineeringBachelor's degree in Electrical EngineeringBachelor's degree in Electronics Engineering