Lead Software Engineer - Data Streaming/Integration Platforms

The Walt Disney Company • Bristol, CT

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About The Position

We are seeking a Lead Software Engineer to help build, enhance, and scale our cloud‑based messaging and integration platforms. In this role, you will design, develop, and support event‑streaming solutions at scale. You will also build and maintain custom microservices based applications that provide platform administration, operational tooling, and integrations with enterprise products and third‑party systems. Beyond hands-on development, you will serve as a key technical leader—setting architectural direction, mentoring engineers, conducting code reviews, and championing best practices in software development, cost‑efficient architecture, and maintainable design. This role offers the opportunity to shape core platform strategy, lead complex distributed systems engineering, and collaborate across the organization to deliver high‑quality, reliable, and scalable products.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in Software Engineering with a strong focus on Java, Infrastructure as Code
• Extensive hands-on experience designing and supporting cloud solutions in AWS, including container orchestration using Amazon EKS
• Extensive “Infrastructure as Code” experience, with advanced proficiency in Terraform for provisioning and automating cloud resources
• Extensive hands-on experience in administrating, deploying, and optimizing messaging platform, especially Apache Kafka
• Proficient in Spring Boot / Java development, with a strong focus on microservices architecture.
• Strong problem-solving skills with a proactive approach to identifying and resolving issues.
• Ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with experience working across teams.
• Comfortable working in a geographically distributed team.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems preferred
• Familiarity with Amazon Q or similar generative AI‑assistant for cloud development, troubleshooting, and code generation.
• Familiarity with Azure and GCP cloud services, including compute, networking, IAM, and container orchestration.
• Familiarity with multi‑region, high‑availability, or disaster recovery architectures.

Responsibilities

• Build, enhance, and support highly scalable, reliable, and cost‑optimized cloud‑based event‑streaming and integration platforms.
• Use Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and CI/CD pipelines to deploy and manage cloud resources.
• Enhance and support Spring Boot/Java microservices based applications for administration and operation of messaging platform.
• Design, develop and support integration services connecting enterprise products and third‑party systems.
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and conduct code reviews.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to deliver high‑impact solutions.
• Ensure performance, reliability, and observability across the platforms.
• Champion engineering excellence in areas such as IaC, microservices design, price-performance optimization, and observability.
• Continuously improve platform automation, monitoring, and self‑service capabilities.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees