Principal Product Software Engineer - Java

On any given day at Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology, we’re reimagining ways to create magical viewing experiences for the world’s most beloved stories while also transforming Disney’s media business for the future. Whether that’s evolving our streaming and digital products in new and immersive ways, powering worldwide advertising and distribution to maximize flexibility and efficiency, or delivering Disney’s unmatched entertainment and sports content, every day is a moment to make a difference to partners and to hundreds of millions of people around the world.

Here are a few reasons why we think you’d love working here:

• Building the future of Disney’s media: Our Technologists are designing and building the products and platforms that will power our media, advertising, and distribution businesses for years to come.
• Reach, Scale & Impact: More than ever, Disney’s technology and products serve as a signature doorway for fans' connections with the company’s brands and stories. Disney+. Hulu. ESPN. ABC. ABC News…and many more. These products and brands – and the unmatched stories, storytellers, and events they carry – matter to millions of people globally.
• Innovation: We develop and implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms, and solve complex and distinctive technical problems.

The Product & Data Engineering team is responsible for end-to-end development for Disney’s world-class consumer-facing products, including streaming platforms Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+, and digital products & experiences across ESPN, Marvel, Disney Studios, Nat Geo, and ABC News. The team drives innovation at scale for millions of consumers around the world across Apple, Android, Smart TVs, game consoles, and the web, with our platforms powering core experiences like personalization, search, messaging and data.

The ABC Core Content Technologies engineering team is looking for a Principal Product Software Engineer who is passionate about setting technical direction for high-scale content platforms and multiplying the impact of engineers across the organization.

As a Principal Engineer, you are a trusted member of the technical leadership of the organization. You build and set the architectural direction for the systems that provide dynamic content management for many of Disney Entertainment’s brands – including ABC Entertainment, ABC News, ABC OTV, Disney, Marvel, National Geographic, and Studios – as well as content ingestion from many internal and 3rd party sources, publishing pipelines, and complex image services.

You operate in highly ambiguous and significantly complex problem spaces that have long-term impact on our brands, products, technology, and architecture.

You are recognized as an expert across multiple specialties. You influence business and technology direction, bringing industry context to technical decisions, and setting the standard for engineering excellence across the organization. As a hands-on technical leader, you split your time between coding, design, and architecture based on where your skills will have the greatest impact – personally writing critical-path code, deconstructing architectures so multiple teams can execute independently, and aligning those teams toward simple, coherent designs.

• A track record of driving clarity and simplicity in the face of significant ambiguity and complexity.
• A force-multiplier mindset – amplifying the impact of teams across the organization through design reviews, mentorship, and technical strategy.
• Deep ownership of the products and platforms your organization delivers.
• A pragmatic approach to balancing trade-offs between opportunity and architectural complexity.
• A passion for keeping abreast…