
Lead Software Engineer – Data Streaming, Integration Platforms
The Walt Disney Company
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Bristol • Connecticut • New York • United States
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Salary
💰 $155,700 - $208,700 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Build, enhance, and support highly scalable, reliable, and cost-optimized cloud-based event-streaming and integration platforms.
- Use Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and CI/CD pipelines to deploy and manage cloud resources.
- Enhance and support Spring Boot/Java microservices based applications for administration and operation of messaging platform.
- Design, develop and support integration services connecting enterprise products and third-party systems.
- Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and conduct code reviews.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-impact solutions.
- Ensure performance, reliability, and observability across the platforms.
- Champion engineering excellence in areas such as IaC, microservices design, price-performance optimization, and observability.
- Continuously improve platform automation, monitoring, and self-service capabilities.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in Software Engineering with a strong focus on Java, Infrastructure as Code
- Extensive hands-on experience designing and supporting cloud solutions in AWS, including container orchestration using Amazon EKS
- Extensive ‘Infrastructure as Code’ experience, with advanced proficiency in Terraform for provisioning and automating cloud resources
- Extensive hands-on experience in administrating, deploying, and optimizing messaging platform, especially Apache Kafka
- Proficient in Spring Boot / Java development, with a strong focus on microservices architecture.
- Strong problem-solving skills with a proactive approach to identifying and resolving issues.
- Ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with experience working across teams.
- Comfortable working in a geographically distributed team.
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 level and position offered
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Hard Skills & Tools
JavaSpring BootInfrastructure as CodeTerraformAWSAmazon EKSApache Kafkamicroservices architecturecloud solutionsplatform automation
Soft Skills
problem-solvingcommunicationcollaborationmentorshiptechnical leadershipproactive approachcross-functional teamworkcode reviewstranslating business requirementsgeographically distributed teamwork