Senior Principal Software Engineer

Job Summary :

We are looking for a Senior Principal Software Engineer who is passionate about developing high performance platforms. To be successful in this role, you need effective communication and collaboration skills, a passion for learning and trying new things, and a strong foundational understanding of programming and computer science.

As a member of our team, you will apply your knowledge and skills to help us deliver scalable, performant, maintainable, and testable software.

Things you’ll be working on :

Identity patterns that can help the teams scale, create proposals, and drive adoption of those patterns

Challenge current architectural choices while collaborating to solve problems in innovative ways

Drive best engineering practices to write well-constructed and easy-to-maintain code, defensive and robust tests.

Lead through metrics - understand application performance and costs and push for better results.

Work with Product Management to help translate business requirements into Technical solutions - drive the delivery of key projects across the various cross functional teams

Lead architecture group to inspire change across the organization as well as partner organizations

Represent Disney streaming in various internal and external conferences, blogs, mentor Senior engineers

What to bring

12+ years of related experience crafting large-scale, highly available Java services utilizing various database and messaging technologies.

Strong programming skills in Java and other object-oriented languages, and a strong grasp of computer science fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, databases,

Experience using source control systems and CI / CD pipelines.

An ability to work both independently and collaboratively.

Champion cross-team projects.

Coach and mentor other specialists on the team to ensure that all software utilizes Hulu and industry best practices for data persistence and real-time streaming applications.

Responsibilities and Duties of the Role :

Develop software designs and specifications

Develops and writes code to meet design specifications

Test, document and deploy code

Provide technical mentorship, and code quality assurance

Support, maintain and break-fix production products

Work with a team to design solutions to various interesting and challenging problems

Be a champion for engineering excellence

Become and stay an expert in current and emerging technologies and tools

Required Education, Experience / Skills / Training :

Basic Qualifications

12+ years of software engineering experience

Understanding of message based distributed, scalable, and resilient systems

Desire to work in a start-up, fast-growth, or rapid-change environment

Experience working on diverse teams

Problem-solving skills to identify the root cause and implement the fix.

Solid communication skills written, and oral

Ability to be flexible, adapting to changing priorities

Fluent in multiple programming languages and an expert in at least one of : JavaScript, Python, Java

Experience transforming requirements into software design, documentation and software.

Ability to coach teammates to become better engineers

Ability to lead technical projects

Experience with :

SpringBoot and related Spring projects

Non-relational database technologies . DynamoDB

Redis and / or MemCache

Apache Kafka and / or Kinesis

Terraform, Docker and Kubernetes

Expert with at least one of : AWS, Azure, GCP

Experience building, testing, and tuning distributed systems

Required Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and / or equivalent work experience

The hiring range for this position in Santa Monica, CA is $223.7K - 300K, and for Seattle, WA is $234.4K - 314.3K and for San Francisco, CA is $245.

1K - 328.6K. 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.