Job Posting Title:

Sr Principal Applied Software Engineer

Req ID:

10143835

Job Description:

Sr Principal Applied Software Engineer

Product Engineering - Seattle, WA

Description

Technology is at the heart of Disney’s past, present, and future. Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is a global organization of engineers, product developers, designers, technologists, data scientists, and more – all working to build and advance the technological backbone for Disney’s media business globally.

The team marries technology with creativity to build world-class products, enhance storytelling, and drive velocity, innovation, and scalability for our businesses. We are Storytellers and Innovators. Creators and Builders. Entertainers and Engineers. We work with every part of The Walt Disney Company’s media portfolio to advance the technological foundation and consumer media touch points serving 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.

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is a global organization of engineers, product developers, designers, technologists, data scientists, and more – all working to build and advance the technological backbone for Disney’s media business globally. The team marries technology with creativity to build world-class products, enhance storytelling, and drive velocity, innovation, and scalability for our businesses. Product Engineering is a unified team responsible for the engineering of Disney Entertainment & ESPN digital and streaming products and platforms. This includes product engineering, media engineering, quality assurance, engineering behind personalization, commerce, lifecycle, and identity.

Product Engineering is a unified team responsible for the engineering of Disney Entertainment & ESPN digital and streaming products and platforms. This includes product engineering, media engineering, quality assurance, engineering behind personalization, commerce, lifecycle, and identity.

This Sr Principal Applied Software Engineer position is an executive and architectural role within the Product Engineering Architecture team. The Product Engineering Architecture team is a central group of senior engineers that work to shape a cohesive technology vision across the DE&E Product & Technology organization. This role will be responsible for driving the largest technical conversations across the organization and shaping the foundational solutions of our technology platform. This role will partner with individual contributors and leaders to ask the challenging questions and lead teams through change leveraging its own deep expertise and experience.

Responsibilities

• Drive the largest technical conversations and architect strategic priorities across the organization.
• Shape and drive the foundational solutions of the technology platform and alliance-wide software stack.
• Provide strategic and operational technical leadership, ensuring systems are scalable, robust, and aligned with industry trends.
• Lead key engineering decisions and set alliance-wide technical standards for the entire software stack.
• Partner with individual contributors and leaders to ask challenging questions and lead teams through technological change.
• Coordinate complex, multi-alliance initiatives to achieve DE&E Product & Technology level OKRs.
• Guide company-wide architecture and strategy with deep foresight into emerging trends and future needs.
• Represent the company at industry events, standards-bodies, and technical panels.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience
• Minimum of 12 years of experience in software development or a relevant technical field.
• Expertise in one or more complex domains, capable of mapping solutions to the business and technology landscape.
• Extensive experience influencing significant industry change and growth at scale.
• Ability to communicate broad strategic vision and distill highly complex technical topics for both engineering teams and executive audiences.
• Deep grasp of the software development lifecycle and ability to resolve the most complex, strategic-level technical challenges.
• Experience across a breadth of relevant technical domains including full-stack development, cloud solutions (e.g., DynamoDB, Redis), modern deployment (e.g., Kubernetes, Terraform), and performance monitoring.

The hiring range for this position in Seattle, WA is $311,600 to $428,400 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 Posting Segment:

PE - Media Platform

Job Posting Primary Business:

PE - Media Platform - Media Architecture

Primary Job Posting Category:

Software Engineer

Employment Type:

Full time

Primary City, State, Region, Postal Code:

Seattle, WA, USA

Alternate City, State, Region, Postal Code:

Date Posted:

2026-03-04