Sr Software Engineer

** This is not a remote role. You must be in the area or willing to relocate.*
* ** Job Description*
* ** About the Role & Team*
* _Disney Experiences (DXT) Technology & Digital creates world-class immersive digital experiences for the Company's premier vacation brands including Disney's Parks & Resorts worldwide, Disney Cruise Line, Aulani: A Disney Resort & Spa, and Disney Vacation Club. We are responsible for the end-to-end digital and physical Guest experience for all technology & digital-led initiatives across the Attractions & Entertainment, Food & Beverage, Resorts & Transportation and Merchandise lines of business as well as other initiatives including My Disney Experience and Hey Disney!_

The Sr. Software Engineer will have responsibilities within the Disney Experiences (DXT) team that manages technical delivery for products within the Connected Products team across all DX. This person will be a cross-disciplinary engineer and problem solver who delivers projects, sustains platforms, and contributes to innovative new products. The Sr. Software Engineer will be contributing to a core platform with real-world impact, operating at scale, and solving technically hard problems that span edge systems, cloud infrastructure, and real-time data processing.

Success in this role requires shipping complex features, improving reliability/performance of owned areas, mentoring junior developers and strong operational excellence on owned components.

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* Job Description:

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* + Design, build, and operate  
** real-time, event-driven systems
** that ingest and process data from edge devices through technologies like  
** Kinesis, Kafka, and MQTT.*
* + Develop backend services and streaming pipelines using  
** Java and Apache Flink
** to transform data into reliable, consumable events, managing Guest media and identity reconsiliation

Architect and operate production systems on  
** AWS** , with a strong focus on scalability, cost efficiency, observability, and fault tolerance

+ Lead technical decisions, drive system design, and act as an owner for critical components of the platform

+ Build clean, versioned  
** event schemas and APIs
** that integrate with downstream consumers and external systems

+ Independently acts as technical liaison and communicates effectively with technical partners, business partners, and front line operators

+ Comfortable mentoring junior developers and representing technical tradeoffs to senior leadership

+  _This position may require occasional travel, estimated at 10-15%_

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* Basic Qualifications:

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* + Must have 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with experience in  
** distributed, production systems*
* + Shows deep ownership of major components, but not necessarily orchestrating multiple teams' delivery for quarters at a time.

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** Must have expertise building real-time or streaming data pipelines (event ingestion, aggregation, windowing, and emission)*
* +  
** Must have deep hands-on experience with AWS (e.g., ECS/EKS, Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, Cloud Watch)*
* +  
** Must have Expert-level proficiency in Java*
* + Strong understanding of  
** event-driven architecture** , schema evolution, and downstream consumer integration

+ Proven ability to design systems that are  
** observable, resilient, and scalable*
* ** Strongly

Preferred Qualifications:

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* + Operating high-visibility systems with  
** strict performance and reliability expectations*
* +

Experience with  
** stream processing frameworks
** or high-throughput messaging systems

+ Building systems that handle  
** sensitive or privacy-relevant data** , with strong security and access controls

** Required

Education:

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* + Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field or equivalent years of relevant experience

DISNEY TECH

The hiring range for this position in Orlando is $ - $ per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate's geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. 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.

** Job :*
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* Location:

** Bay Lake,Florida

** Job Posting Company:
** Disney Experiences

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