Senior Principal Software Engineer

The Walt Disney Company

full-time

Posted on: 10/2/2025

Location Type: Hybrid

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

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💰 $223,700 - $328,600 per year

Senior

About the role

Lead the design and roadmap for the various areas of the Media Platform including acquisition, processing, storage, and distribution of media and metadata components from both first and third party providers to multiple consumers across the Disney direct-to-consumer experiences, advertising systems, and data analysis.
Partner with development, product, program, operations, architecture, and others in a matrix structure to perform project discovery and technical design execution at a multi-pillar level
Be an ambassador from Media Engineering to teams across The Walt Disney Company to evangelize platform metadata capabilities and understand unique use-cases for design and inclusion in continued platform expansion
Work with product, engineering, and leadership groups in DE&E Product & Technology to foster a community and culture of quality, innovation, and experimentation across the organization
Provide guidance and mentor the technical and business teams and individuals by providing solutions, recommendations, and documentation driving continuous improvement.
Follow incidents within the domain and partner with teams to derive insights for resilience and self-healing capabilities into future iterations
Engage in industry level conversations around technology standards and innovation as a representative of the Walt Disney Company

Bachelor’s Degree in technical field or equivalent experience
12+ years of experience in software development
Skills collaborating with multiple distributed teams to build alignment and find common paths forward
Experience designing, developing, and testing services and workflows to support multiple data ingestion paths and formats
Experience designing, developing, and testing backend services and systems to support high scale distribution and denormalized edge data access
Experience building, managing, and testing an authoritative normalized datastore with robust data sanitation supporting complex tiered model structures with distributed update notifications
Experience building, managing, and testing a multi-tenant system and support environment allowing for operational flows without development intervention
Experience building, testing, and deploying a video player stack across a diverse device and application ecosystem
Experience using and implementing industry media (DASH, HLS, CMAF) and metadata standards (SCTE, CableLabs, ESNI) as well as state of the art practices
Experience engaging and collaborating in industry standards bodies
Strong interpersonal, administrative, presentation and analytical skills
Clear communication, collaborative teamwork skills, and ability to build consensus with multiple stakeholders
A broad, enterprise-wide view of the business and varying degrees of appreciation of strategy, process & capabilities, and governance

Benefits

A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

software developmentdata ingestionbackend servicesnormalized datastoremulti-tenant systemvideo player stackDASHHLSCMAFSCTE

interpersonal skillsadministrative skillspresentation skillsanalytical skillsclear communicationcollaborative teamworkbuilding consensus

Bachelor’s Degree